Showing: Hou Hsiao-hsien  
Flowers of Shanghai

An intoxicating, time-bending experience bathed in the golden glow of oil lamps and wreathed in an opium haze, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s gorgeous period reverie traces the romantic intrigue, jealousies, and tensions swirling around a late 19th century Shanghai brothel, where the courtesans live confined to a gilded cage, ensconced in opulent splendor yet forced to work to buy back their freedom.

Hou Hsiao-hsien Taiwan, 1998
DCP, Blu-ray

Goodbye South, Goodbye

Riding the momentum from a trio of internationally acclaimed gems (A City of Sadness, The Puppetmaster, and Good Men, Good Women), Hou Hsiao-hsien cemented his status as one of cinema’s inimitable visionaries with 1996’s Goodbye South, Goodbye, a mesmerizing portrait of the ennui and corruption at the heart of modern Taiwan.

Hou Hsiao-hsien Taiwan, 1996
DCP