Goodbye, Dragon Inn
This week the From Below will be showing Tsai Ming-Liang’s *Goodbye, Dragon Inn *(*2003) *on Thursday, November 6th, at 7pm.
Here is the link to RSVP. Doors will open at 6:50 and we’re starting the film at 7:10!
Cinemas are thresholds between reality and a world up on a screen. They are grottos we seek out that ask us willingly, partially, suspend as best we can this world for that world, a fabrication of light and sound from another time and place.
*Goodbye, Dragon Inn *is a film about lingering told through the death of a theater. It is the final night before the Fu He Grand Theater closes for good, and we languidly, achingly, look down long hallways to watch the lingering activities of the projectionist, ticket-taker, ghosts, and cruisers as time slowly dwindles out from the drippy, peeling cinema. Meanwhile the classic wuxia action film *Dragon Inn *flickers and booms above. The theater, that threshold, is *on *a threshold all of its own, and we watch it, and the practices it contains, slowly draw their finals breaths.
We’ve been wanting to show this one for a while, and now feels like the perfect time while the body of Charlie’s shorts night of haunted places is still warm and with the real onset of deep fall, our threshold season in which we begin to bid goodbye to another year, to the leaves, to the light.
The End, Stefan, Charlie, and Stark