Please come to the second installment of the Chinese Cinema Club on Friday December 3.  They’re screening the award-winning, critically acclaimed neo-realist film TAKE OUT, about a day in the life of a Chinese deliveryman. The screening will be accompanied by a Chinese takeout dinner (advance purchase available for hungry viewers), and followed by a conversation with directors Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou, moderated by dGenerate Films President, Karin Chien.

Chinese Cinema Club: TAKE OUT
7pm
Friday, December 3, 2010
The Museum of the Chinese in America (MOCA)
215 Centre St (one block above Canal)
http://www.mocanyc.org/visit/events/chinese_cinema_club
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115930945134221&index=1

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Synopsis of TAKE OUT:
Take Out is a day-in-the-life of Ming Ding, an illegal Chinese immigrant working as a deliveryman for a Chinese take-out shop in New York City. Ming is behind on his huge debt to the smugglers who brought him to the US. The collectors have given him until the end of the day to deliver the money. After borrowing most from friends and relatives, Ming realizes the remainder must come from the day’s delivery tips. In order to do so, he must more than double his daily income. In a social-realist style, the camera follows Ming on his deliveries throughout the upper Manhattan neighborhood where social and economic extremes exist side by side. Intercutting between Ming’s deliveries and the daily routine of the restaurant, Take Out presents a harsh and realistic look at the daily lives of illegal Chinese immigrants in present day New York City.

Reviews of TAKE OUT:
”...Some of the most authentic neo-realism this side of De Sica.” by Aaron Hillis, The Village Voice.
New York Times review: http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/movies/06take.html
Take Out’s official website: http://www.takeoutthemovie.com/about.htm

About the Chinese Cinema Club:
The CHINESE CINEMA CLUB is a joint venture between dGenerate Films and MOCA to create dialogue around contemporary issues in Chinese cinema, culture and society, and to address the disappearance of cinemas in Chinatown, New York.

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Thanks to Karin Chien for this posting.

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