December

Bi Gan: Seeing is Believing

Visionary Chinese director Bi Gan's newest masterpiece Resurrection comes to The Main Cinema starting January 2. This holiday season, experience Bi's previous films including his bold feature debut Kaili Blues (2015), preceded by A Short Story (2022) told from the perspective of a cat, and his immersive noir Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018).

ABOUT Long Day's Journey Into Night

Dir. Bi Gan • China • 2018 • In Mandarin with English subtitles • 140 min • Presented in 2D
Bi Gan follows up his knockout debut, Kaili Blues, with this noir-tinged stunner about a lost soul (Jue Huang) on a quest to find a missing woman from his past (Wei Tang, Lust, Caution). Following leads across Guizhou province, he crosses paths with a series of colorful characters, among them a prickly hairdresser played by Taiwanese superstar Sylvia Chang. When the search leads him to a dingy movie theater, the film launches into an hour-long, gravity-defying shot that plunges its protagonist—and us—into a labyrinthine cityscape. China's biggest arthouse hit of all time, the film took in more than $40 million dollars in its opening weekend at the domestic box office.