Enjoy a holiday retrospective dedicated to a leading figure of the ascendant Taiwanese New Wave and one of cinema’s most celebrated surveyors of the human condition—Edward Yang. Desire/Expectations: The Films of Edward Yang features 10 screenings of Yang’s magnum opus Yi Yi, in addition to 2K and 4K restoration of That Day, on the Beach, ... Read more

At midnight on July 1st, 1997, 156 years of British rule in Hong Kong came to an end, as the colonial city-state was reunited with Mainland China under the status of “special administrative region.” The uncertainty many Hong Kongers felt about this event and its implications would, subtly or quite directly, influence films made in ... Read more

Journalist Jonathan Eig (King: A Life), University of Florida professor and former field director of SNCC's Mississippi Freedom Summer Project Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, and political scientist Brandon M. Terry (To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.) offer new perspectives on life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ... Read more