Film
The Joy Luck Club
- 7PM
25th Anniversary screening!
Wang achieved mainstream success with this ravishing adaptation of Amy Tan’s beloved novel about the intertwining hopes and trials of four immigrant Chinese women and their American-born daughters. The first (and, until this year, only) studio film to feature a majority Asian-American cast is a moving reflection on history, memory, and the ways in which one generation’s joys and sorrows are transmitted to the next.
Introduction by writer Jenny Zhang
Go to the movies just once a month and a BAM membership pays for itself.
A humorous and bittersweet ode to Chinese-American family, culture, and cuisine.
A wryly irreverent look at the immigrant experience set in New York’s 1940s Chinatown.
Wang’s breakout sleeper hit is one of the key independent films of the 1980s.