Film Forum is pleased to honor Taiwanese filmmakers through a special one-time screening of “Eat Drink Man Woman” on Tuesday, March 28, at 8:15 p.m. The screening will include a special pre-recorded introduction by award-winning director Ang Lee.
The special screening is part of the “New Waves: Rediscovering Taiwanese Cinema of the 1980s” series, which began last November and has attracted over 3,000 attendees thus far. The repertory series was curated by Haden Guest, film historian and director of the Harvard Film Archive, along with Film Forum repertory artistic director Bruce Goldstein.
One of the wonders of the late 20th century global cinematic landscape was the wave of remarkably talented directors who emerged in Taiwan during the 1980s. According to series programmer Haden Guest, “In the 1980s, Taiwan was the epicenter of a paradigm shift in narrative filmmaking that dramatically harnessed and expanded cinema’s power to creatively engage time and emotion. The profound impact and lasting influence of these movies resonates to this day.”
Ang Lee is one of the most critically acclaimed directors of the Taiwanese Second New Wave, and he is considered by many to be one of the greatest filmmakers of the 21st Century. Eat Drink Man Woman was both a critical and commercial success around the globe, earning several awards nominations and becoming 1994’s highest-grossing foreign-language film in the U.S. and Canada .
Film Forum’s repertory selections include foreign and American classics, festivals, and directors’ retrospectives. For more information, please visit: https://filmforum.org.
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