This Week at The Chinese
House

Wednesday
Screening Samsara
Thursday Exhibition Opening: Photos by Luo Dan
Sunday Screenings: Cult Directors Double Bill
Sunday Live Music: “THE FUN”

Wednesday Screening

Directed
by Pan Nalin (2001)
December 2nd, 7:15pm – Free
entrance

About
the movie: What is important: satisfying one thousand
desires or conquering just one? SAMSARA is a spiritual love story
set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, in the Himalayas, about one
man’s quest to find enlightenment. Tashi, a brilliant young
disciple, is just completing three years of solitary meditation in a
remote hermitage. Brought out of a deep trance, Tashi is taken back
to his ancient monastery where he slowly recovers his strength, but
his return has unexpected results. Despite a life devoted to the
rigors of spiritual development, he finds himself experiencing a
surprisingly profound sexual awakening. With Shawn Ku,
Christy Chung, Neelesha BaVora.
Colour, 138 min, Tibetan
(english subtitles)

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Thursday

Part
of the Photo Phnom Penh Festival
December 3rd,
7:00pm

How to give an account of a country as huge as China, even for someone Chinese? The young photographer Luo Dan offers a completely original plan and a most unusual result. As he loves being on the road, walking, letting him travel in the hope of encounters and surprises, he traveled all over his country, for tens of thousands of kilometers, from North to South, and by Road 318, from East to West, from Shanghai to Tibet. In our imagination, when we say China, we think of crowds. In Luo Dan’s world, where everything is managed with infinite delicacy, in soft and calm shades – which make everything stranger – the characters are always alone. We are in another world, far from any cliché.

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Sunday

This
month: Scorcese presents…
December 6th, from 4:00 pm -
Free entrance

Davy
Chou is back this month and will concentrate on two movies: one that
inspired Martin Scorcese, and his first feature length.

4:00
PM: THE RED SHOES – Directed by Michael Powell
(1948)
About the movie: A glorious Technicolor epic that influenced generations of filmmakers, artists, and
aspiring ballerinas, The Red Shoes intricately weaves backstage life with the thrill of performance. A young ballerina (Moira Shearer) is torn between two forces: the composer who loves her (Marius Goring), and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer (Anton Walbrook). Filmmakers such as Brian DePalma and Martin Scorsese have named it one of their all time favorite films. With Marius Goring, Jean Short, Gordon Littmann. Colour, 133 min, English

6:45
PM: WHO’S THAT KNOCKING AT MY DOOR- Directed by Martin Scorcese (1978) About the movie: Martin
Scorsese’s powerful drama tells the story of J.R. (Harvey Keitel), a typical Italian-American boy who has grown up in a comfortable middle-class urban environment. But in that same environment he encounters the decisive split between tradition and his Catholic faith, in addition to the realities of modern life. Out of work but not in need of cash, J.R. carouses with his buddies in the bars and social clubs of Little Italy. He draws a hard line between “the broads you bang” and the girls you go out with and marry–nice girls, such as his girlfriend (Zina Bethune).With: Zina Bethune, Harvey Keitel, Anne Collette. Black and White, 90 min, English

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Sunday

Chilled
acoustic set from Australian trio
December 6th, from 8:30pm -
Free entrance

With
vast and varied experience and individual acclaim, Tony Byrne, Simon James Dodd and Marty Nelson-Williams were thrown together by fate in ‘The Deep South’ of Australia. Currently spanning the globe, they will perform an acoustic set on Mandolin, Djembe and guitar.

Tony
Byrne, sang and performed on national television at age ten with international superstar Harry Secombe. Simon James Dodd signed his first record deal in the U.K with recording giant RCA, at the tender age of eleven, and has worked with numerous international artists such as the luminary founding member of Fleetwood Mac: Peter Green. Marty Nelson-Williams has been honing his craft professionally for more than twenty years. He was voted ” Best Male Artist ” in the South Australian music awards ‘96, with his band “Cousin Leonard”. He regularly tours Europe and The U.K

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