By Isabella Tianzi Cai Chi-hui Yang (right) and Kevin Lee discuss Disorder with audience at Museum of Chinese in America Director Huang Weikai’s short film Disorder played in the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) in New York City Chinatown last Friday evening, on August 12, 2011. It attracted students and people from the general public alike, who took an interest in contemporary Chinese documentaries. New York-based Chinese-language news source World Journal, the largest of

From Chicago to New York City, "Disorder" has film critics dancing in the streets. This Friday at 7pm, Huang Weikai’s cinematic hurricane Disorder storms back into New York City, screening at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas in Chinatown as part of MoCA’s Chinese Cinema Club. Film programmer, lecturer and writer Chi-hui Yang will be on hand to discuss the film following the screening, with dGenerate’s Kevin B. Lee moderating. Earlier in the summer, the film screened at t

Three Times (dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien) This Friday the Chinese Cinema Club continues at the Museum of Chinese in America in New York’s Chinatown. The featured film is Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao Hsien’s acclaimed feature Three Times, starring two of Taiwan’s hottest stars, Hsu Chi and Chang Chen. The film tells three chronologically separate stories of love between May and Chen, set in three years, 1911, 1966, and 2005. The screening will be followed by discussion with Leo Goldsmi

Take Out (dirs. Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou) The Chinese Cinema Club, a collaboration between dGenerate Films and Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), is a movie club screening Chinese and Chinese American films on the first Friday of every other month. The Club is a first step towards addressing the disappearance of cinemas from Chinatown, and its subsequent lack of public screening options. The aim will be to draw diverse movie-lovers and provide a regular space to gathe

The Snakehead (author: Patrick Radden Keefe) This Friday dGenerate Films and the Museum of Chinese in American kick off their regular screening series Chinese Cinema Club. The first screening, held at the museum’s Chinatown location, will be Robin Weng‘s Fujian Blue, an exciting indie feature about reckless youths tied to the human smuggling trade in China’s Fujian province. Joining us in post-screening discussion is Patrick Radden Keefe, author of The Snakehead: An Epic Tale

The Chinese Cinema Club, a collaboration between dGenerate Films and Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), is a movie club screening Chinese and Chinese American films on the first Friday of every other month. The Club is a first step towards addressing the disappearance of cinemas from Chinatown, and its subsequent lack of public screening options. The aim will be to draw diverse movie-lovers and provide a regular space to gather, watch, discover and interact around cinema. T