The Sat May 3 and Thu May 8 screenings are on 35mm. Other screenings are on DCP.
PLEASE NOTE: Our elevator is currently out of service. The May 3 & 8 shows of PLATFORM are on the second floor and only accessible by stairs. We apologize for the inconvenience.
One of the first masterpieces of twenty-first century cinema, Jia Zhangke’s sophomore feature is an at once epic and intimate vision of the changing China of the 1980s. Unfolding between 1979 and 1990, PLATFORM centers around a provincial theater troupe who go from performing Maoist propaganda as the Fenyang Peasant Culture Group to playing western-influenced pop music as the All-Star Rock and Breakdance Electronic Band—along the way finding themselves increasingly adrift in a society suspended between tradition and modernization.
Official selection: TIFF
Screening as part of Time and Tide: The Films of Jia Zhangke
See more and save! Get a Jia Zhangke Ticket Pack ($30 for IFC Center members and $45 for non-members). Ticket packs are good for any three shows in the retrospective.