Taiwanese New Wave Cinema Movement

Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 1989 film A City of Sadness was the first movie to depict the “228 incident” (named for the date it began, February 28, 1947), in which an anti-Chinese uprising in Taiwan resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians. The event, which also marked the start of the “White Terror,” a period of violent Kuomintang Chinese rule in Taiwan, is at the heart of A City of Sadness. The movie traces the impact of the White Terror on a family – one brother is killed, another is imprisoned and a third flees to fight with the resistance movement.

The screening is part of the “Taiwanese New Wave Cinema Movement” series at Rice Cinema, which continues tomorrow with Daughter of the Nile, and Sunday with Three Times, both also by Hou Hsiao-hsien. There’s an opening reception today at 6 p.m. followed by a screening of A City of Sadness at 7 p.m. Rice University, 6100 Main. For information and a complete schedule, call 713-348-3138 or visit www.ricecinema.rice.edu. $6.

Fri., Oct. 24, 7 p.m., 2008