Sunday | October 5, 2014 5:00 pm

Cheerful Wind
(Feng er ti ta cai)

Screening on Film

Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien.
With Feng Fei-fei, Kenny Bee, Anthony Chan.
Taiwan, 1981, 35mm, color, 90 min.
Mandarin with English subtitles.
Print source: Center for Moving Image Arts at Bard College

Another romantic comedy that reteams the leads from Cute Girl, Hou’s second film raises the stakes for its central couple (melo)dramatically: he is blind, while she is living with her fiancé who also happens to be her boss. Similarly, Hou seems to take more chances formally, as with the opening film-within-the-film. Also pointing the way towards Hou’s later work is the film’s use of children as a foil and mirror to the adults around them.

October 3 – November 2, 2014

Also Like Life. The Films of Hou Hsiao hsien

July 5–October 27

Melville et Cie.

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

October 18–November 3

António Campos and the Promise of Cinema Novo

sepia photo of Artie Freedman in silhouette with a video camera at show

November 8

Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

November 9–December 9

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

a mausoleum that looks like a miniature Spanish cathedral, next to a variety of others, against an evening sky

November 11

The Night Watchman by Natalia Almada

a double-exposed image that includes a 16th century Russian man being fed grapes by another amid decadent decor

November 23

Wings of a Serf