{"id":55658,"date":"2015-08-18T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=55658"},"modified":"2015-08-08T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T19:05:18","slug":"cinema-on-the-edge-cut-out-the-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=55658","title":{"rendered":"CINEMA ON THE EDGE: CUT OUT THE EYES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, August 18  7:30PM<br \/>\nMaysles Documentary Center<br \/>\n343 Lenox Avenue\/Malcolm X Boulevard<br \/>\nNew York, NY, 10027<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Er Housheng is a blind musician who travels Inner Mongolia with his lover\/partner Liu Lanlan performing the saucy, sensationally bawdy form of musical duet comedy called er ren tai. Er\u2019s female audiences are particularly enthralled with his combination of sensuality, Rabelaisian earthiness, and frankly socially subversive lyrics. Director Xu\u2019s specialty is to train his piercingly observant documentary camera \u2014 intimate and complicit, rather than coldly objective \u2014 on unique Chinese characters like Er, using them to probe deep beneath the surface of China\u2019s clash of rural traditions with its urbanizing contemporaneity. The result is, on one hand, an enthralling ethnographic showpiece; but it\u2019s at its core a passionate and frenzied psycho-drama of lust, violence, and genius.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets and information at: <a href=\"http:\/\/maysles.org\/mdc\/cut-out-the-eyes\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/maysles.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, August 18 7:30PM Maysles Documentary Center 343 Lenox Avenue\/Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY, 10027<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55661,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55658\/revisions\/55661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}