Tsai Ming-liang’s "The Hole"

Join us when we see Malaysian director Tsai Ming-liang’s newly restored surreal 1998 feature film, The Hole. NOTE: Consider purchasing your tickets in advance at roxie.com.

“Set on the eve of the 21st century, Tsai Ming-liang’s fourth feature turns a crumbling Taipei apartment block into one of cinema’s strangest and most tender end-of-the-world romances. Perennial muse Lee Kang-sheng (‘the man upstairs’) and Yang Kuei-mei (‘the woman downstairs’) are among the building’s last holdouts, refusing evacuation as a mysterious epidemic spreads outside and rain batters the city without end. When a plumber leaves behind an unfinished repair, the man’s floor opens into an accidental passage between two sealed-off lives, turning leaks, trash, pesticide, and petty territorial warfare into a strange form of courtship. Among the most disarmingly funny and cathartic entries in Tsai’s filmography, The Hole finds hope in a world that seems to be falling apart, breaking its deadpan plague scenario open with splendorous Grace Chang musical numbers and poker-faced slapstick.”—Program notes

More info on the Roxie Theater: roxie.com

5:40 Meet at the Roxie Theater to purchase tickets and take our seats.
The film starts at 6:00.
7:30 After the film we will meet at Pancho Villa Taqueria (3071 16th St.) for conversation.