THU FEB 1, 2024 7:00 PM MAHJONG $8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | ‘Edward Yang: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’ The new 4K restoration was undertaken by the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute with the support of Kaili Peng and Kailidoscope Pictures. Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILM: In English and Mandarin with English subtitles. A screwball farce about the manipulation and lies baked into modern prosperity, Mahjong centers on a trendy nightspot in Taipei, where Yang orchestrates the elaborate comings and goings of a raft of disparate characters, including a couple of mob enforcers (one played by YI YI’s Wu Nien-Jen, co-writer of THAT DAY, ON THE BEACH and TAIPEI STORY), an American escort service madam, and a young Frenchwoman (Virginie Ledoyen) looking for the British entrepreneur who wooed her in London. Yang’s penultimate feature is as much a wry critique of the many dark crime-comedies of its decade as it is a jaundiced love letter to late ’90s Taipei—a city where languages, classes, and ideologies collide at a dizzying rate, and the pursuit of happiness is a brutal zero-sum game. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films COUNTRY: Taiwan