Thursday,
March 31st, starting 7:30PM-9:15PM,
Curtis Choy Documentaries with Hua Hsu, in-theater screening at Maysles Cinema, 343 Lenox Avenue by West 127th Street. "Curtis Choy's work reminds us of how the radical politics of the 1960s and 70s demanded new approaches to form and storytelling. As a sound technician, his career indexes the history of Asian American filmmaking, from Wayne Wang's 'Chan is Missing' to Gene Cajayon's 'The Debut' to Justin Lin's 'Finishing the Game.' A punk energy courses through his own films.
In 1976, he made 'Dupont Guy: The Schiz of Grant Avenue,' a frenetic, crass, utterly absorbing film essay that conveys the complicated psyche and din of Chinatown. In 1983, he directed 'The Fall of the I Hotel,' a poetic chronicle of the multi-racial, multi-generational community movement that arose to defend the elderly manongs of the I-Hotel, a low-income residential hotel in San Francisco's Manilatown, from eviction." -Hua Hsu
$15 tickets online and more details on the Maysle Cinema site:
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