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SIFF CINEMA DOWNTOWN 2100 4th Ave. • Seattle, WA 98121 SIFF CINEMA EGYPTIAN 805 E Pine St. • Seattle, WA 98122
CHINATOWN CINEMA DISSECTION
SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN 511 Queen Anne Ave. N • Seattle, WA 98109 SIFF FILM CENTER 167 Republican St. • Seattle, WA 98109
Join facilitator and SIFF Programmer Dan Doody on a scene-by-scene investigation into dames, bribery, corruption, and murder, all leading to one of cinema’s most iconic final lines, “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”
APRIL 2024 HIGHLIGHTS
APRIL 13
10:00 AM–4:00 PM
SIFF FILM CENTER
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THE FILMS OF EDWARD YANG
Taipei Story (1985) NOW PLAYING • EGYPTIAN
Made in collaboration with Yang’s fellow New Taiwan Cinema master Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taipei Story chronicles the growing estrangement between a washed-up baseball player (Hou, in a rare on-screen performance) working in his family’s textile business and his girlfriend (pop star Tsai Chin), who clings to the upward mobility of her career in property development. As the couple’s dreams of marriage and emigration begin to unravel, Yang’s gaze illuminates the precariousness of domestic life and the desperation of Taiwan’s globalized modernity. New 4K restoration.