Long Day's Journey Into Night
Directed by Bi Gan
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Jue Huang
Sylvia Chang
Hong-Chi Lee
Yongzhong Chen
Bi Gan follows up his knockout debut, Kaili Blues, with this noir-tinged stunner about a lost soul (Jue Huang) on a quest to find a missing woman from his past (Wei Tang, Lust, Caution). Following leads across Guizhou province, he crosses paths with a series of colorful characters, among them a prickly hairdresser played by Taiwanese superstar Sylvia Chang. When the search leads him to a dingy movie theater, the film launches into an hour-long, gravity-defying 3D sequence shot that plunges its protagonist—and us—into a labyrinthine cityscape. China's biggest arthouse hit of all time, the film took in more than $40 million dollars in its opening weekend at the domestic box office.
Reviews
“Critic’s Pick! Intoxicating. Feels like dreaming with your eyes open.”
“Swooningly beautiful... with a staggering 59-minute 3-D tracking shot that must be seen to be believed.”
"Chinese box office phenomenon Long Day's Journey Into Night is a mesmerizing hallucination of a film... recalls Tarkovsky, Malick and Wong Kar-wai."
“A flat-out masterpiece. If Bi Gan’s goal was to reinvent the language of film, he might have achieved that goal.”
“Imaginatively spellbinding. An all-enveloping experience that genuinely approaches the condition of hallucination.”
“Magical. An honest-to-God, how’d-they-do-that enchantment. Ranks among the great poetic and technical achievements in recent cinema. A full-body swoon of a movie.”
“Mind-blowing. Brims with hallucinatory brilliance. The 3D shot of the century.”
“Gorgeous… mind-boggling. A feat of choreography and visual acuity that’s astonishing to behold.”
"Like many great filmmakers—from Alain Resnais and Andrei Tarkovsky to David Lynch and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, all of whom he recalls to varying degrees—Bi [Gan] seems to believe that new realms of cinema are possible in making the immaterial material."
“It’s impossible to describe… and even more impossible to forget."
“Staggering. A remarkable new kind of filmmaking experience.”
“Mesmerizing... movie magic. This is bold and rare filmmaking.”
“A pièce de résistance of labyrinthine long-take camerawork, choreography, and dream logic."
“A mind-blowing cinematographic journey.”
Awards
Official Selection: Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection: Toronto International Film Festival
Official Selection: New York Film Festival
Winner: Three Golden Horse Awards
Venue | City | State | Date |
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Flint Institute of Arts | Flint | MI | 1573794000November 15 - November 17, 2019 |
County Theater | Doylestown | PA | 1573707600November 14, 2019 |
Ambler Theater | Ambler | PA | 1573016400November 6, 2019 |
George Eastman House | Rochester | NY | 1572667200November 2, 2019 |
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Boston | MA | 1568347200September 13 - September 22, 2019 |
Cinema Moderne | Montreal | QC | 1567742400September 6 - September 12, 2019 |
Cinema du Parc | Montreal | QC | 1567742400September 6 - September 12, 2019 |
Cinematheque Quebecois | Montreal | QC | 1567742400September 6 - September 12, 2019 |
Plaza Cinema & Media Arts Center | Patchogue | NY | 1565236800August 8 - August 22, 2019 |
Harkins Arizona Mills 25 | Tempe | AZ | 1564718400August 2 - August 8, 2019 |
Cleveland Cinematheque | Cleveland | OH | 1564286400July 28, 2019 |
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | Houston | TX | 1563595200July 20 - July 21, 2019 |
Alamo Drafthouse Ashburn | Ashburn | VA | 1563336000July 17, 2019 |
Castro Theatre | San Francisco | CA | 1563076800July 14, 2019 |
The Broadway Theatre | Saskatoon | SK | 1562990400July 13 - July 18, 2019 |
Metrograph | New York | NY | 1562904000July 12 - July 18, 2019 |
Cinema Arts Centre | Huntington | NY | 1562731200July 10, 2019 |
The Music Hall | Portsmouth | NH | 1562644800July 9 - July 13, 2019 |
Roxy Hotel Cinema | New York | NY | 1562299200July 5 - July 7, 2019 |
Museum of the Moving Image | Astoria | NY | 1561867200June 30 - July 14, 2019 |
Vancouver International Film Centre | Vancouver | BC | 1561694400June 28 - July 4, 2019 |
Vermont International Film Festival | Burlington | VT | 1561608000June 27, 2019 |
Parkway Theatre | Baltimore | MD | 1561089600June 21 - July 18, 2019 |
Roxy Hotel Cinema | New York | NY | 1561089600June 21 - June 23, 2019 |
Pittsburgh Filmmakers - Regent Square | Pittsburgh | PA | 1561089600June 21 - June 27, 2019 |
FilmScene | Iowa City | IA | 1560657600June 16 - June 18, 2019 |
Texas Theatre | Dallas | TX | 1560571200June 15 - June 16, 2019 |
Cinestudio | Hartford | CT | 1560484800June 14 - June 20, 2019 |
Regal Tara Cinemas | Atlanta | GA | 1560484800June 14 - June 20, 2019 |
Bear Tooth Theatre | Anchorage | AK | 1560139200June 10, 2019 |
The Loft Cinema | Tucson | AZ | 1559880000June 7 - June 13, 2019 |
Palm Desert 10 | Palm Desert | CA | 1559880000June 7 - June 13, 2019 |
Bow Tie Criterion Cinemas | New Haven | CT | 1559880000June 7 - June 13, 2019 |
Landmark Kendall Square Cinema | Boston | MA | 1559880000June 7 - July 11, 2019 |
Goggleworks | Reading | PA | 1559880000June 7 - June 13, 2019 |
Metro Cinema | Edmonton | AB | 1559448000June 2 - June 5, 2019 |
Olympia Film Society | Olympia | WA | 1559448000June 2 - June 13, 2019 |
Regal Ballantyne Village | Charlotte | NC | 1559275200May 31 - June 6, 2019 |
Center For Contemporary Arts | Santa Fe | NM | 1559275200May 31 - June 6, 2019 |
Landmark Ritz at the Bourse | Philadelphia | PA | 1559275200May 31 - June 6, 2019 |
Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers | Yonkers | NY | 1559016000May 28, 2019 |
Laemmle Fine Arts | Los Angeles | CA | 1558756800May 25 - May 27, 2019 |
Coral Gables Art Cinema | Coral Gables | FL | 1558756800May 25 - May 27, 2019 |
Arena Cinelounge | Los Angeles | CA | 1558670400May 24 - May 30, 2019 |
Landmark Hillcrest Cinemas | San Diego | CA | 1558670400May 24 - June 6, 2019 |
Landmark Opera Plaza Cinema | San Francisco | CA | 1558670400May 24 - June 6, 2019 |
Landmark Mayan Theatre | Denver | CO | 1558670400May 24 - June 6, 2019 |
Regal UA High Ridge | Albuquerque | NM | 1558670400May 24 - June 6, 2019 |
Circle Cinema | Tulsa | OK | 1558670400May 24 - May 30, 2019 |
Regal Downtown West Cinema | Knoxville | TN | 1558670400May 24 - June 6, 2019 |
Time & Space Limited | Hudson | NY | 1558584000May 23 - June 2, 2019 |
Regal Edwards University Town Center | Irvine | CA | 1558065600May 17 - May 30, 2019 |
Landmark California Theatre | Berkeley | CA | 1556856000May 3 - June 13, 2019 |
Landmark Ritz Five | Philadelphia | PA | 1556856000May 3 - May 30, 2019 |
Metrograph | New York | NY | 1555041600April 12 - June 6, 2019 |
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