Join us for an afternoon screening of Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003). Like the Royal Theater in The Last Picture Show and the title movie house in Cinema Paradiso, the Fu-Ho is shutting down for good — its valedictory screening, King Hu’s 1967 wuxia epic Dragon Inn, playing to a motley smattering of spectators who snack noisily and remove their shoes, treating this temple of cinema like their living room. It’s a painful reminder that moviegoing as a communal experience is slipping away. Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn offers the slyest, most delicate of character arcs—the manager, a woman with an iron brace on her leg, embarks on a torturous odyssey to deliver food to the projectionist (Lee Kang-sheng). By the time the possibility arises that the theater is haunted, we’ve already recognized it as a space outside of time, where two stars of Hu’s original epic, Miao Tien and Shih Chun, watch their younger selves with tears in their eyes. Layering reality and fiction, dense with frames within frames and gazes of longing, the film is a natural companion to GaHee Park’s art—lingering in the twilight space between presence and absence, watching and being watched.

Enjoy the film and themed snacks as part of this series inspired by GaHee Park’s exhibition Behind the Curtain. Come early or stay late to visit our galleries—free admission is included with your ticket!