Scene from Taiwanese film “My Favorite Season” (1985) (Photo – Publicity Still)
Watch a movie. Visit the world.
Los Angeles’s most famous export, movies, are often more than entertainment, especially with the passage of time. Sometimes films are the most vivid collective memories for immigrant communities of their homelands, a topic up for discussion when Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Public Library presents One Family: Film Theaters Between Chinatown & Little Taipei on Saturday, August 29 at 1:00 pm.
Beginning with a free screening of the Taiwanese My Favorite Season (1985), the afternoon then includes a community discussion about preserving Chinese history through cinema from Hong Kong and Taiwan.
This program brings together two historic Chinese-language film theaters from LA’s Chinatown and Little Taipei (San Gabriel Valley) – the Sing Lee Theatre and the Kuo Hwa Theater.
About the Film
Liou is an independent woman (Sylvia Chang Ai-jia) who is carrying a child tries to fake her marriage. Liou meets Bi Bao-liang (Jonathan LI Zong-sheng) who has been single since he was born. Liou thinks that Bi is an ideal partner for her project, but Bi doesn’t feel that way at first. However, they eventually set an engagement for a year, start living together, and the story begins.
No reservations are necessary. The program will run in the Friends Room of Monterey Park Library, 318 S. Ramona Ave.
