BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//http://www2.movingimage.us//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.23// X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260415T231421CEST-6524vzAiAb@http://www2.movingimage.us DTSTAMP:20260415T211421Z DESCRIPTION:\n Film streams free online from 12:00 p.m. March 17 through 11 :59 p.m. March 18. Discussion with scholars Hsiu-Chuang Deppman and Michae l Berry on March 18 at 7:00 p.m.\, presented in collaboration with the Mus eum at Eldridge Street. \; \n \n\n\n A cornerstone of director Zhang Y imou's international breakthrough period in the nineties\, To Live (1994)\ , adapted from Yu Hua’s novel of the same title\, is the searing\, epic sa ga of a married couple living through decades of turmoil across China's tu multuous mid twentieth century. Gong Li and Gou Ye give riveting performan ces as Jiazhen and Xu Fugui\, who experience joy and suffer tragedy\, and watch their fortunes change from the post-WWII rise of the People's Libera tion Army to the Great Leap Forward of the fifties to the Cultural Revolut ion of the sixties. To Live won Best Actor and the Grand Prix at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. Museum of the Moving Image will host a presentation by Hsiu-Chuang Deppman (Oberlin College)\, followed by a conversation betw een Deppman and Michael Berry (UCLA)\, which explores Zhang Yimou’s deeply cinematic approach to the novel’s narrative. \n \n\nTo Live. Dir. Zhang Y imou. China\, 1994\, 133 mins. In Mandarin with English subtitles. \; \n\n \n\n\n RSVP here. An email from events@movingimage.us will be sent to view the film online (available from 12:00 p.m. March 17 through March 18 at 11:59 p.m. ET) and to join the conversation. \n\n\n \n From March 8 t hrough 18\, Museum at Eldridge Street will be exploring Yu Hua’s To Live i n a series of lectures\, book discussions\, and film screenings with partn ers from China Institute\, Chatham Square Library of New York Public Libra ry\, and Museum of the Moving Image. Learn more about the other programs b y clicking here. Borrow a copy of the book To Live from the New York Publi c Library (English-Language E-Book) (English-Language Book) (Chinese-Langu age Book). \n \n \n About the speakers: \n \n \n Hsiu-Chuang Deppman is Professor of Chinese and Cinema Studies at Oberlin College where she teach es Chinese film\, literature\, and language. Her research interests includ e history of cinema\, film adaptation\, documentary\, media studies\, comp arative literature\, and modern Chinese fiction. Author of Adapted for the Screen: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Fiction and Film (Univers ity of Hawai’i Press\, 2010) and Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chines e Cinemas (University of Hawai’i Press\, 2020)\, she has also published on narrative theory and Asian popular culture in refereed journals and edite d volumes. She is currently writing a new book on Jia Zhangke’s cinema of reflection. \n \n \n Michael Berry is Professor of Contemporary Chinese C ultural Studies and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA. He is the author of several books on Chinese culture cinema\, including Spea king in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers (2006) and A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film (2008). H e has served as a film consultant and a juror for numerous film festivals\ , including the Golden Horse (Taiwan) and the Fresh Wave (Hong Kong). He i s also the translator of several books by contemporary Chinese writers\, i ncluding Wild Kids (2000)\, Nanjing 1937: A Love Story (2002)\, To Live (2 004)\, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (2008)\, Remains of Life (2017)\, an d Wuhan Diary (2020). \n \n \n NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) designed to broaden our understanding of our world\, our communities\, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book. The Museum at Eldridge Street is one of 78 not-for-profit organizati ons to receive a grant to host an NEA Big Read project between September 2 019 and June 2020. \n \n \n NEA Big Read is a program of the National End owment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. \n \n \n DTSTART:20210318T190000 DTEND:20210318T200000 LOCATION:Museum of the Moving Image SUMMARY:NEA Big Read 2021: Bidding Farewell in Zhang Yimou’s To Live END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR