Join the East Asia Center as we continue our community gathering and Leslie Cheung film retrospective series, Thursday, April 27, with food and socializing starting at 5:30 p.m. in New Cabell Hall 236. The film showtime will begin at 6:00 p.m.

The final film in our series Farewell My Concubine (霸王別姬) premiered on January 1, 1993, in Hong Kong. The film received the Palme d'Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first Chinese-language film to do so. It won numerous other awards, including a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and a BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language, and received nominations at the 66th Academy Awards in two categories, Best Cinematography and Best Foreign Language Film. Recognized as one of the landmark films of the Fifth Generation movement that brought Chinese film directors to international prominence, the film was selected as one of the "100 Best Films in Global History" by Time in 2005.