GOODBYE, DRAGON INN

March 28, 29 & 30, 2025
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Introduced by Olympia Film Society’s Joaquin de la Puente on 3/28 at 7pm
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. The Fu-Ho’s valedictory screening is King Hu’s 1967 wuxia epic Dragon Inn, playing to a motley smattering of spectators. The standard grievances persist: patrons snack noisily and remove their shoes, treating this temple of cinema like their living room. The sense that moviegoing as a communal experience is slipping away takes on a powerful and painful resonance. Yet Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn is too multifaceted to collapse into a simple valentine to the age of pre-VOD cinephilia.
Dir: Tsai Ming-liang / 2003 / Mandarin with English subtitles / 82 min

“A weird, funny, melancholy tribute to movies and movie-going, an opus for film geeks that rang my personal bell.” – Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

SCREENING: FRI 3/28 7PM; SAT 3/29 7PM; SUN 3/30 7PM

$13 GA & $10 OFS. Tickets are available at the box office 30 minutes before showtimes.