The puzzle-like complexity of SUZHOU RIVER warns viewers to watch the film strategically, not to take it at face value, to be wary of what they’re seeing even as his enticing tale draws them in. Lou — a filmmaker of meticulous craft and a powerful sense of symbolism — builds his protagonist’s story around the character’s own ...

SUZHOU RIVER is a movie of seductive surfaces—mainly as reflected in the queasy glamour of the polluted canal that winds through the heart of Shanghai. Named for an urban stream of consciousness, SUZHOU RIVER is a ghost story that’s shot as though it were a documentary—and a documentary that feels like a dream.”

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Feb 19, 2023 · SUZHOU RIVER Screening Co-Presented by Asian CineVision Sunday, February 19, 5:10 show Introduced by Kris Montello, Programming Manager of the Asian-American International Film Festival

Feb 18, 2023 · SUZHOU RIVER Screening Co-Presented by CineCina Film Festival Saturday, February 18, 8:30 show Introduced by Frank Yan, Director of Programming

In this enthralling, poignant docufiction, director Lou Ye (SUZHOU RIVER) and his crew reunite in Wuhan in January 2020 to complete a film started a decade earlier. When the first wave of Covid precipitates lockdown and fear, this story of revived artistic vision pivots to a thriller-paced account of the early spread of the virus — both the ...

Dec 13, 2019 · TAXI DRIVER Friday, December 13 9:30 Directed by Martin Scorsese Starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster and Harvey Keitel (1976) “You talkin’ to me?” Robert De Niro’s insomniac cabbie Travis Bickle, amid his nocturnal 12-hour shifts, yearns in moody voice-over for a rain that’ll “wash all the scum off the streets”, while he ferries presidential candidate Leonard …

U.S., 1980 Directed by Brian De Palma With Angie Dickinson, Michael Caine, Nancy Allen Approx. 105 mins. DCP. Dis- and un- satisfied housewife Angie Dickinson has violent fantasies in the shower, must deal with a super nerdy son, gets turned down even by shrink Michael Caine, but during a tour-de-force 9-minute dialogue-less scene in a museum, hooks up with a …

ONIBABA Part of Japanese Horror, Friday, March 1 – Thursday, March 14 at Film Forum

U.S., West Germany, 1984 Directed by Jim Jarmusch With John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson Approx. 89 mins. 35mm.