Event Listing - Movies

 Is This Your Listing?
Fri Jul 18 - Thu Jul 24

Up the Yangtze


Website

Location
Date and Time
Landmark's Opera Plaza
601 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102 map
cross street: Golden Gate Street
district: Polk Gulch/Van Ness

Fri Jul 18 (1:30 | 4:00 | 7:00 | 9:20)
Sat Jul 19 (1:30 | 4:00 | 7:00 | 9:20)
Sun Jul 20 (1:30 | 4:00 | 7:00 | 9:20)
Mon Jul 21 (1:30 | 4:00 | 7:00 | 9:20)
Tue Jul 22 (1:30 | 4:00 | 7:00 | 9:20)

Description
In China, it is simply known as "The River." But the Yangtze—and the life that surrounds it—is undergoing a truly spectacular transformation wrought by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history, the Three Gorges Project. From the vantage point of a luxury "farewell cruise" that wends its way up the River, we are witness to the dramatic shift: peasant families are forced to relocate their entire lives as floodwaters steadily engulf their villages; young tour-boat employees warily grasp at a more prosperous future; Western tourists catch a final glimpse of a disappearing culture. Returning to the scene of his grandfather's riverbank youth, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang has crafted a singularly moving and cinematically breathtaking depiction of contemporary China and a disquieting glance into a future that awaits us all.