2006 Sunset Cinema Series

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Date: Fridays, 5:30PM to 8:00PM
July 7, 14, 21, 28; August 4, 11, 18, 25, 2006

Place: 25 West 43rd Street, Room 1000,
between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan

Free Admission


Why spend your sunsets at home, when you can visit AAARI, and experience the best films that Asians have to offer from around the globe? This eight session workshop will guide viewers on a retrospective study through some of Asian American / Asian cinema’s most beloved and highly acclaimed films from the past decade.

 

Series Lineup
(All films shown in their native language, with English subtitles.)

Date Movie
July 7 Happy Together (Hong Kong)
July 14 Monsoon Wedding (India)
July 21 Shall We Dance? (Japan)
July 28 Beautiful Boxer (Thailand)
Aug 4 Old Boy (South Korea)
Aug 11 Memoirs of a Geisha (USA)
Aug 18 Brokeback Mountain (USA)
Aug 25 Perhaps Love (China)

Warning: Some films may contain adult content that may be deemed objectionable. Please note this warning before registering for this workshop. Thank you.


Workshop Instructor: Daryl Chin
Workshop Coordinator: Antony Wong
Technical Assistance: Phillip Li, Lawrence Tse,

Author Bio

Daryl Chin, is Associate Editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance & Art. He has contributed articles to M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory and Criticism (edited by Susan Bee and Mira Schor; Duke University Press, 2001), Asia in New York City: A Cultural Travel Guide (Asia Society & Avalon Travel Press, 2001), Tokens: The NYC Asian American Experience on Stage (edited by Alvin Eng; Asian American Writers Workshop & Temple University Press, 2001), among other anthologies. In a series of four lectures held at AAARI entitled “Asian American Cinema Workshop: The Moving Images of the Asian-American”, he examined some of the issues relating to the representation of Asian identity in American media. Currently, he is completing a monograph on the video artist Shigeko Kubota.