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

Cheerful Wind
(Feng er ti ta cai)

Part of film series

Also Like Life. The Films of Hou Hsiao hsien

Part of film series

Also Like Life. The Films of Hou Hsiao hsien

Screenings from this program October 2014

Friday03October

A Summer at Grandpa's

Cute Girl AKA Lovable You

Saturday04October

The Boys from Fengkuei

Green, Green Grass of Home

Sunday05October

Cheerful Wind

Friday10October

Dust in the Wind

Flight of the Red Balloon

Saturday11October

Good Men, Good Women

Café Lumière

Sunday12October

Growing Up

A Time to Live and a Time to Die

Saturday18October

The Puppetmaster

Sunday19October

A City of Sadness

Friday24October

Millennium Mambo

Sunday26October

The Sandwich Man

Goodbye South, Goodbye

Friday31October

Three Times

Daughter of the Nile

November 2014

Sunday02November

Flowers of Shanghai

Screenings from this program
October 2014