Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories
March 1–May 11, 2024
Replete with new restorations, Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories offers the opportunity to see all seven of the director’s brilliantly constructed, emotionally resonant films—cornerstones of the Taiwanese New Wave with enduring universal appeal.
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Yi Yi
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A Confucian Confusion
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A Brighter Summer Day
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That Day, on the Beach
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Upcoming Films
That Day, on the Beach
Edward Yang
Taiwan, 1983New Digital Restoration
Friday, May 3 7 PMView DetailsTwo successful career women meet by chance and flash back to their pasts and paths—and those of Taiwan in the 1980s—in Edward Yang’s first feature, which also marked the debut of legendary cinematographer Christopher Doyle. Sylvia Chang stars.
Yi Yi
Edward Yang
Taiwan, 200035mm Archival Print
Sunday, May 5 5:30 PMView DetailsA wedding and a wake bookend Edward Yang’s look at a year in the life of one multigenerational middle-class family in Taipei. “The work of a master in full command of the resources of his art” (New York Times). Released in 2000, it was still named to many Best Films of the 2000s lists.
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A Brighter Summer Day
Edward Yang
Taiwan, 1991Saturday, May 11 5:30 PMView DetailsGangsters, musicians, lovers, and street punks populate the gorgeous frames of Edward Yang’s portrait of coming of age—or trying to—in the politically charged Taiwan of the 1960s. Yang’s—and Taiwanese cinema’s—version of such epoch-defining films as The Godfather or 1900.
Past Films
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Yi Yi
Edward Yang- Saturday, April 20 7 PM
Taiwan, 200035mm Archival Print
A wedding and a wake bookend Edward Yang’s look at a year in the life of one multigenerational middle-class family in Taipei. “The work of a master in full command of the resources of his art” (New York Times). Released in 2000, it was still named to many Best Films of the 2000s lists.
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Mahjong
Edward Yang- Saturday, April 6 4 PM
Taiwan, 1996New Digital Restoration
An assortment of half-assed young tough guys, British carpetbaggers, and mob enforcers flitter about a Taipei nightspot in Edward Yang’s almost screwball takedown of the blinding hunt for modern riches. “A jaundiced love letter to late ’90s Taipei” (Film at Lincoln Center).
Introduced by Weihong Bao
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A Confucian Confusion
Edward Yang- Wednesday, March 27 7 PM
Taiwan, 1994New Digital Restoration
A gaggle of Taipei yuppies chase cash value over Confucian values (unless those too can be monetized) in Edward Yang’s biting, ironic satire of the Taiwanese nouveau riche. A fascinating snapshot of Taiwan’s mid-1990s economic boom and a still timely takedown of the success obsessed.
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A Brighter Summer Day
Edward Yang- Saturday, March 23 6 PM
Taiwan, 1991Gangsters, musicians, lovers, and street punks populate the gorgeous frames of Edward Yang’s portrait of coming of age—or trying to—in the politically charged Taiwan of the 1960s. Yang’s—and Taiwanese cinema’s—version of such epoch-defining films as The Godfather or 1900.
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Terrorizers
Edward Yang- Friday, March 8 7 PM
Taiwan, 1986New Digital Restoration
Three groups of characters—a photographer, a hoodlum, and a doctor and his wife—are united by a prank phone call in Edward Yang’s self-reflexive look at human relationships and their emotional violence. “Yang’s ultimate statement on the isolation of modern living” (Film at Lincoln Center).
Introduced by Andrew F. Jones
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Taipei Story
Edward Yang- Sunday, March 3 5:30 PM
Taiwan, 1985Pop star Tsai Chin and director Hou Hsiao-hsien star in Edward Yang’s breakthrough work, a treatise on loves gone wrong, urban alienation, and sorrow within the bright lights of a mid-1980s Taipei caught between past and present.
Introduced by Andrew F. Jones
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That Day, on the Beach
Edward Yang- Friday, March 1 7 PM
Taiwan, 1983New Digital Restoration
Two successful career women meet by chance and flash back to their pasts and paths—and those of Taiwan in the 1980s—in Edward Yang’s first feature, which also marked the debut of legendary cinematographer Christopher Doyle. Sylvia Chang stars.
Introduced by Weihong Bao
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