Wayne Wang in Person
Wayne Wang in Person
March 11–April 17, 2022
From defining Asian American identity on-screen in Chan Is Missing and The Joy Luck Club to adapting the writing of Paul Auster and working with Jennifer Lopez, Wayne Wang is a filmmaking original. This series features new restorations of his work.
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Life Is Cheap . . . But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
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Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
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The Joy Luck Club
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Past Films
Chan Is Missing
Wayne Wang
United States, 1982Chan Is Missing also screens without in-person guests on Wednesday, March 30.
Friday, March 11 7 PMWayne Wang and Oliver S. Wang in ConversationView DetailsTouted as the first all Chinese American feature film, Wang’s irreverent, refreshingly authentic movie follows two cab drivers searching San Francisco’s Chinatown for an elusive flimflam man. “A small, whimsical treasure of a film” (Roger Ebert).
The Joy Luck Club
Wayne Wang
United States, 1993The Joy Luck Club also screens without in-person guests on Saturday, April 16.
Sunday, March 13 4 PMWayne Wang, Amy Tan, and Catherine Ceniza Choy in ConversationView DetailsFour Chinese American women and their immigrant mothers learn one another’s stories in this intimate adaptation of the famed Amy Tan novel. A landmark in Asian American cinema, “both sweeping and intimate” (New York Times).
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
Wayne Wang
United States, 1985Director’s Cut
Sunday, March 20 4 PMWayne Wang and Laureen Chew in ConversationView DetailsAn elderly Chinese American widow in San Francisco tries to get her adult daughter married off in Wang’s simultaneously gentle and rowdy tribute to Yasujirō Ozu, Chinatown, and Wang’s Asian American heroines. With Laureen Chew, Victor Wong, Joan Chen, Amy Hill.
Life Is Cheap . . . But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
Wayne Wang
United States, 1989Saturday, March 26 7 PMWayne Wang, Spencer Nakasako, and Antonella Bonfanti in ConversationView DetailsThe spirit of independence that runs through Wang’s films finds its most audacious expression in this tale of an urban cowboy tasked with delivering a briefcase to a mob boss, which was shot on location in Hong Kong.
Chan Is Missing
Wayne Wang
United States, 1982Chan Is Missing also screened on Friday, March 11 with Wayne Wang and Oliver S. Wang in conversation.
Wednesday, March 30 7 PMView DetailsTouted as the first all Chinese American feature film, Wang’s irreverent, refreshingly authentic movie follows two cab drivers searching San Francisco’s Chinatown for an elusive flimflam man. “A small, whimsical treasure of a film” (Roger Ebert).
Chinese Box
Wayne Wang
United States, 1997Director’s Cut
Saturday, April 2 7 PMWayne Wang and Oliver S. Wang in ConversationView DetailsJeremy Irons, Gong Li, and Maggie Cheung star in another of Wang’s love letters to Hong Kong, this one made all the more memorable and melancholy by its setting and timeline: 1997, at the end of British rule.
Blue in the Face
Wayne Wang, Paul Auster
United States, 1995Saturday, April 9 7 PMWayne Wang in PersonView DetailsAn all-star cast—Jim Jarmusch, Lou Reed, Giancarlo Esposito, Harvey Keitel, Madonna (!)—improvise their way in and around a Brooklyn cigar store in Wang and Auster’s off-the-cuff, playful ode to the outer boroughs.
The Joy Luck Club
Wayne Wang
United States, 1993The Joy Luck Club also screened on Sunday, March 13 with Wayne Wang, Amy Tan, and Catherine Ceniza Choy in conversation.
Saturday, April 16 3:30 PMView DetailsFour Chinese American women and their immigrant mothers learn one another’s stories in this intimate adaptation of the famed Amy Tan novel. A landmark in Asian American cinema, “both sweeping and intimate” (New York Times).
Maid in Manhattan
Wayne Wang
United States, 2002Sunday, April 17 4 PMWayne Wang in PersonView DetailsWang demonstrated his wide range of filmmaking influences in this contemporary interpretation of classic 1930s Hollywood romantic comedies, with JLo herself starring as a single mom working as a hotel maid and Ralph Fiennes as a most unlikely Prince Charming.