Masters of Asian Cinema series
The next film in the Cinema East series is Ozu Yasujiro’s 1956 feature Early Spring, which screens at 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday, February 11, 2020, at the Pickford Film Center (1318 Bay Street).
Early Spring was Ozu’s first film after Tokyo Story, and his…
The last Masters of Asian Cinema film of the 2018-2019 season is Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 1987 feature Daughter of the Nile, which screens on Tuesday, June 4 at 6:30 p.m. at Pickford Film Center, 1318 Bay Street in Bellingham.
Sandwiched in between two of…
The next Masters of Asian Cinema film is Jia Zhangke’s 2018 feature Ash is Purest White, which screens on Tuesday, May 14 at 6:30 p.m. at Pickford Film Center, 1318 Bay St. in Bellingham.
According to series curator and WWU librarian Jeff Purdue,…
The next Masters of Asian Cinema film is Lee Chang-dong’s 2018 feature Burning, which screens on Tuesday, April 16 at 6:30 p.m. at Pickford Film Center, 1318 Bay St., in Bellingham.
Based on a story by Murakami Haruki, Burning follows Jong-su, a…
The next Masters of Asian Cinema film is Jia Zhangke’s 2004 feature The World, which screens on Tuesday, March 12 at 6:30 p.m. at Pickford Film Center, 1318 Bay St. in Bellingham.
The World is Jia’s fourth feature and the first to be officially approved for release in China…
The next Masters of Asian Cinema film is director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s 2011 feature, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, which screens on Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 6:30 p.m. at Pickford Film Center, 1318 Bay Street in Bellingham.
Ceylan uses the loose frame of a…
The next Masters of Asian Cinema film is The Music Room, which screens at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018 at the Pickford Film Center (1318 Bay St.)
The Music Room was the fourth feature by Satyajit Ray, made just before the last film in The Apu…
The next Masters of Asian Cinema film is The Day After, which screens at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018 at the Pickford Film Center, 1318 Bay St.
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The next Masters of Asian Cinema film is Edward Yang’s Yi Yi, which screens at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 5, 2018 at the Pickford Film Center (1318 Bay Street).
Yi Yi is the last of the three Edward Yang films screened this season, and was Yang’s last…
The next Masters of Asian Cinema film is The Personals, which screens at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at the Pickford Film Center (1318 Bay Street).
"The Personals," director Chen Kuo-fu’s…