Berkeley Pacific Film Archive screening Wayne Wang films from ‘Joy Luck Club’ and ‘Main in Manhattan’ to controversial ‘Life is Cheap.’
Throughout his decades-spanning career, San Francisco filmmaker \Wayne Wang has meaningfully toggled between two radically different worlds — releasing both box-office hits and risk-taking indies.
That Gemini-like duality in the 73-year-old Wang’s career gets well represented in Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives compelling seven-film retrospective “Wayne Wang in Person.” The series includes a rare screening of one of his most controversial features — 1989’s adherently nontraditional, “Life Is Cheap … But Toilet Paper Is Expensive” . Also included is 1997’s “Chinese Box” with Jeremy Irons, Gong Li and Maggie Cheung. Both the films deal passionately with Hong Kong’s severance from United Kingdom control and China’s take over.
“Those images hit me hard and it really gave me a way to kind of find a focus when editing the film.” “We loved it when we were there, but New York is a different city now, and we decided to move back to San Francisco. And now San Francisco is changing,” he says with a laugh. While Wang admits it’s hard to adjust to losing some of that creative control, Lopez “had a very good teacher. So you have to take that and work with it and try to make it as you think it’s most relevant.”
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