MFAH Film – Newcomers: Three Films on Immigration: Chan is Missing
- When
- October 17, 2015
- Where
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Museum of Fine Arts Houston – Brown Auditorium
1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston,TX 77006 - Cost
- $2 - $1001
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the film series Newcomers: Three Films on Immigration. Three scholars who serve on the Museum’s Film Committee have chosen unique films on the subject of immigration.
Each screening features a brief introduction and a post-screening discussion with the audience.
Chan is Missing
Directed by Wayne Wang
1982
USA
B/W
80 minutes
16mm
Presented by Dr. Karen Fang.
Made for just $20,000, the breakthrough film of director Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club) follows two Chinatown cabbies as they search for a man who disappeared with their savings.
Gently dismantling stereotypes of oriental inscrutability and implementing the well-tread conventions of Hollywood mysteries, the movie’s witty script and timeless black and white images pack in references from Charlie Chan and Sam Spade, Blow-Up to Chinatown.
A landmark independent film – and first feature film starring an entirely Asian American cast – this love letter to the incommensurable diversity of American identity was praised by Vincent Canby as a “matchless delight.” – Karen Fang
Print courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
