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Every Sunday | 7:30pm | Ted Mann Theater
This ongoing series celebrates films that have been honored at the Academy Awards.
November’s Oscar® Sundays are programmed as part of the series Hollywood Chinese: The First 100 Years, guest programmed by Arthur Dong.
For this month’s Oscar® Sundays, I’ve programmed four films not only for their artistic achievements, but also for how they might be reconsidered through a contemporary Hollywood Chinese lens. I probably watched every Academy Awards show since they began televising in 1953 (although I was in my mother’s womb for the first one). I’d join the legions of armchair critics who cheered and scoffed at the honorees, mainly because of personal preferences, not from any intellectual perspective…at least not until some twenty years ago when I began scrutinizing the representation of the Chinese in Hollywood feature films, including the titles here, which were among my favorite Oscar-recognized movies. Join me Sunday evenings this November when we can both marvel at the creation of Oscar magic on the big screen, and also look at how distinguished instances of cinematic expressions might reflect the values of an awards system, and how these choices influence the ways we perceive each other and interact as global citizens.
Programmed and notes by Arthur Dong, Guest Programmer Program notes for Oscar ® Sundays: Hollywood Chinese © 2022 DeepFocus Productions, Inc.
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