Urban Ghosts and Legends

• Urban Ghosts and Legends: The Cinema of Tsai Ming-liang
  

  presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center June 29 - July 12

  Born in Malaysia and raised in Taiwan, Tsai Ming-liang makes movies that get under your skin and burrow their way into your consciousness. Join us for this retrospective of Tsai's work, which includes his terrific debut "Rebels of the Neon God," the beautifully controlled "Vive L'Amour," the cheerfully apocalyptic musical "The Hole," and the New York premiere of Tsai's 1998 "The River." more...

• The Peony Pavilion (World Premiere screening)
  

  presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in collaboration with Lincoln Center Festival 2001 Saturday, July 7 and Sunday, July 8

  A heroic 20-hour live Chinese opera production on film telling the epic Ming Dynasty story of a lovely, young heroine who pursues her dream lover from beyond the grave. Directed for the stage by Chen Shi-Zheng and adapted on video by Derek Bailey and Sian Busby, the film captures the drama and romance of the live opera performance from Lincoln Center Festival 1999 with twenty actors playing over 160 characters, orchestral accompaniment, folk dances, acrobatics, puppets, and more than 550 hand-embroidered costumes. more...