Monday 06.13.05 -- Field trip -- Anthology Film Archives
Hou Hsiao-hsien
CAFÉ LUMIÈRE
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Note! Not At 16 Beaver
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CONTENTS:
1. About this Monday
2. About CAFÉ LUMIÈRE
3. Where is Anthology Film Archives?
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1. About this Monday
What: CAFÉ LUMIÈRE
Where: Anthology at 2nd Ave+2nd St
When: 7 pm ( it is also playing at 9:15 )
Field!
Trip!
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2. About CAFÉ LUMIÈRE
US THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN!!
Hou Hsiao-hsien
CAFÉ LUMIÈRE
2004, 104 minutes. In Japanese with English subtitles. Distributed by Wild Bunch, with special thanks to Lucie Kalmar.
A residential neighborhood in Tokyo, 2003. Yoko, a freelance writer researching musical legend Jiang Ewn-Ye, befriends Hajime, the owner of a secondhand bookstore. They spend many hours together in the district's coffee shops and train stations. Yoko feels she can tell the quiet, calm Hajime anything. When she is with him, she experiences an unusual peace of mind, a calmness of spirit. For his part, Hajime loves Yoko profoundly, but remains silent. Raised in rural Hokkaido by her near-blind uncle, Yoko now enjoys a good relationship with her father and step-mother. But when she returns to her father's house and tells them she is pregnant, and that she has no intention of marrying the Taiwanese father, they worry deeply for Yoko's future.
"One of the world's greatest filmmakers, Hou Hsiao-hsien has created an elegantly fractured riff on another indisputable master, Yasujiro Ozu, the centenary of whose birth has been celebrated during the past year. Where Ozu's Tokyo stories gave us an orderly Japanese society being eroded by modernity, Hou conjures a present-day Japan in which family life is a mere shell and romantic passion has given way to hooking up. Left to their own devices, the young can follow only their own private paths, like the trains that Hou uses as a recurring motif. Dazzling to behold, CAFÉ LUMIÈRE captures the pathos of contemporary urban solitude." – THE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
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2. where is Anthology Film Archives?
32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
Telephone: (212) 505-5181
