VPES Invite: Electric Shadows - For Fun
Dear Members,
Very few tickets remain to next week's screening Scenes of City Life, a narrative exploration of 1930's life in Shanghai, China.
Scenes of City Life《都市風光》
Friday & Saturday July 2nd & 3rd, 2021 - 8:00 PM
General Admission $16 / VPES Members $12
Note: Friday July 2nd Screening is now SOLD OUT
Scenes of City Life 《都市風光》is a 1935 comedy-drama set in Shanghai that tells the story of a novelist in a love triangle with the pawnshop owner's daughter and a wealthy business man.
partially a city symphony, basking in the new glow of neon at night, partially a romantic comedy with an anti-consumerism bent...
(eddie, on Letterboxd)
China 1935 | Black and White | 99 mins | Directed by Yuan Muzhi
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For the final iteration in the Velaslavasay Panorama's 20th Anniversary film screening series Electric Shadows On Penglai Mountain, we present the 1992 film For Fun《找乐》
Friday & Saturday August 6th & 7th, 2021 - 8:00 PM
General $16 / VPES Members $12
A rare and overlooked film by auteur Ning Ying, For Fun explores the life of Old Man, a "recently retired concierge of an opera company and his battle against bureaucracy to establish an amateur opera troupe featuring men like himself. The film dwells on the pastimes of old Beijingers, such as opera connoisseruship and bathhouse chats" and along with her other films On The Beat (1995) and I Love Beijing (2000), chronicles the transformation of Beijing from the late 20th Century into the 21st Century, presenting "the city in flux by dwelling on images of demolition."
China | 1992 | Color | 97 mins | Mandarin with English subtitles | Directed by Ning Ying
Electric Shadows on Penglai Mountain is presented in collaboration with The Livonian Cinema
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