“Imaginary Chinatown:” Film Series Presented by Metrograph

The international Chinatown, accessed through red lacquered gates bearing formidable dragon motifs, has been a vital aspect of both history and myth- making in the West for over 200 years and counting. Metrograph pays tribute to the complex tradition of Chinatown on film, beginning Wednesday, September 27. Titles include:

• Alice (Woody Allen/1990/102 mins/35mm)
• Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter/1986/99 mins/35mm)
• Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith/1919/90 mins/35mm)
• Chinatown (Roman Polanski/1974/130 mins/35mm)
• Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese/2002/207 mins/35mm)
• Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone/1984/229 mins/35mm)
• Outside the Law (Tod Browning/1930/70 mins/35mm)

“Anna May Wong: Empress of Chinatown” Begins October 7

Throughout her career Wong would bridle at the exoticized roles she was handed, even taking o for Europe when Hollywood disappointed her, but she approached every lm with incredible grace and dignity, and what remains of her through the years is a seductive, incredibly chic, and startlingly modern screen presence.

Titles include Toll of the Sea (Chester M. Franklin), Old San Francisco (Alan Crosland), Daughter of the Dragon (Lloyd Corrigan), Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg), and Anna May Wong Visits Shanghai, a newsreel restored by UCLA, all in 35mm.

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