Scene from Taiwanese film “My Favorite Season” (1985) (Photo – Publicity Still)
Watch a movie. Visit the world.
By Melanie Hooks
Los Angeles’s most famous export—movies—often becomes more than entertainment, especially with the passage of time. For immigrant communities, films can serve as vivid collective memories of their homelands. That topic will be up for discussion when Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Public Library presents One Family: Film Theaters Between Chinatown and Little Taipei on Saturday, August 29, at 1:00 pm.
The afternoon begins with a free screening of the Taiwanese film My Favorite Season (1985), followed by a community discussion about preserving Chinese history through cinema from Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The program brings together two historic Chinese-language film theaters from Los Angeles’s Chinatown and Little Taipei in the San Gabriel Valley: the Sing Lee Theatre and the Kuo Hwa Theater.
In the film, Liou, an independent woman played by Sylvia Chang Ai-jia, is pregnant and tries to create the appearance of a marriage. She meets Bi Bao-liang, played by Jonathan Li Zong-sheng, who has been single since birth. Liou sees Bi as an ideal partner for her plan, but he is initially uninterested. Eventually, they agree to become engaged for a year and begin living together, and the story begins.
No reservations are necessary. The program will take place in the Friends Room at Monterey Park Library, 318 S. Ramona Ave.
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