With Tony Leung. Taiwan’s chaotic history during the four years after the end of World War II—from Japan’s surrender to the takeover of the island by Chiang Kai-shek’s routed Nationalist forces fleeing Communist China—is seen through the story of the Lin family (an old father and his four grown sons), whose fortunes rise and fall with the currents of history. “One of the supreme masterworks of the contemporary cinema.”—Jonathan Rosenbaum. Richard I. Suchenski, director of the Center for Moving Image Arts at Bard College and organizer of the Hou retrospective, will introduce and discuss the film.

Taiwan, 1989, subtitles, color, 35mm, 158 min.

Admission free but ticket required.