{"id":66417,"date":"2016-09-03T08:08:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T12:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=66417"},"modified":"2016-09-01T21:29:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T01:29:34","slug":"kaili-blues-the-directorial-debut-from-chinese-poet-bi-gan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=66417","title":{"rendered":"Kaili Blues, the Directorial Debut from Chinese Poet Bi Gan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sep 3-11<br \/>\nMuseum of Moving Image<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kaili.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[66417]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66418\" title=\"Kaili Blues, the Directorial Debut from Chinese Poet Bi Gan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kaili.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From September 3 through 11, the Museum will present Kaili Blues, the stunning directorial debut from Chinese poet Bi Gan, in an exclusive New York return engagement after its successful Metrograph run.<\/p>\n<p>Kaili Blues<\/p>\n<p>Dir. Bi Gan. 2015, 113 mins. Digital projection. With Chen Yongzhong, Zhao Daqing. In Mandarin and Kaili dialect with English subtitles. Chinese poet and first-time filmmaker Bi Gan has made an astonishing debut film that is at once mesmerizing and enigmatic, a dreamlike cinematic tour de force. The elusive narrative revolves around the journey of a doctor from the rain-drenched city of Kaili to look for his brother\u2019s abandoned child. As J. Hoberman writes in The New York Review of Books, \u201c[Bi\u2019s] full-throttle filmmaking manages to evoke Resnais, Tarkovsky, Hou Hsiao-hsien without ever seeming derivative.\u201d A Grasshopper Film release. Event link<br \/>\nSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 3:00 P.M. AND 6:00 P.M.<br \/>\nSUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 3:00 P.M. AND 6:00 P.M.<br \/>\nSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2:00 P.M. AND 5:00 PM<br \/>\nSUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 5:00 P.M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sep 3-11 Museum of Moving Image<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66417","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\/66417","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66419,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66417\/revisions\/66419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}