Mark SabalauskasDouble Happiness takes the "stressful wedding" trope and turns it into a brilliant, frantic exploration of family trauma. Review now live. #TaiwaneseCinema
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popgeeks.comRemembering YEN CHENG-KUO: From Child Star to Redeemed Director, a Life Cut Short at 50 https://filmcombatsyndicate.com/remembering-yen-cheng-kuo-from-child-star-to-redeemed-director-a-life-cut-short-at-50/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #News #taiwan #Taiwanesecinema
followfocus“Yang gracefully responded to the world’s changes across seven expansive features, each one notable for their sprawling, unconventional narrative structures, effortlessly precise compositions, and largely nonprofessional casts that expressed a heartfelt, near-omniscient understanding of life on the small island nation. “ 📽️ 🎞️ 🇹🇼 #Cinemastodon #TaiwaneseCinema #EdwardYang #TaiwaneseNewWave
Desire/Expectations: The Films of Edward Yang https://www.filmlinc.org/series/desire-expectations-the-films-of-edward-yang/#films
Desire/Expectations: The Films of Edward Yang
Featuring newly restored and rarely screened films from the pioneering filmmaker’s profound body of work."Desire/Expectations: The Films of Edward Yang" is a comprehensive retrospective honoring one of cinema’s most celebrated and deeply missed surveyors of the human condition.
Period Japanese poster for Hou Hsiao-hsien’s masterful film GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE [1996]. 📽️ 🎞️ 🇹🇼
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Hou Hsiao-hsien Is Retired from Filmmaking Due to Dementia – IndieWire 📽️ 🎞️ 🇹🇼
“The news, which IndieWire has confirmed, was shared at a screening of one of the Taiwanese director's films in London on October 23.” #CineMastodon #filmmakers #FilmDirectors #TaiwaneseCinema #TaiwanNewWave #HouHsiaoHsien #InternationalCinema
Hayley ScanlonA pigeon racer ponders building a coop for birds he can no longer care for while his own home crumbles in Chan Ching-lin's bleak rural drama, Coo-Coo 043. https://wp.me/p1x9li-k5U
Screened as part of this year's London East Asia Film Festival
A former gangster finds himself displaced within the modern society after release from prison in Johnny Chiang’s melancholy neo-noir, Lost in Forest. https://wp.me/p1x9li-iMj
Screening in Chicago April 16 as part of Asian Pop-Up Cinema.
The wholesome small-town values of an ageing hairdresser place her increasingly at odds with her cynical consumerist kids in Fu Tien-Yu's poignant tale of changing times, Day Off. https://wp.me/p1x9li-iM3
Screening in Chicago April 15 as part of Asian Pop-Up Cinema
Dustin Kiyeon ChangWan and Huey are teenage lovers in a small mining town. After graduating middle school, they decide to go to bustling Taipei to earn money for their families. Wan takes a job at printing factory then later as a motorcycle delivery man while going to night school. Huey works as a seamstress. They befriend with billboard painter and his gang at a movie theater, hang out & drink sometimes. But life is tough and things never go the way you want. Hou's elegy to his adolescent times is full of stunningly beautiful moments - a train ride home, shy Huey taking off her shirt in a spur of the moment, grandpa's firecrackers, shipwrecked Chinese family in the army barracks, watching people fighting fire, drunken dad trying to lift a stone... It feels almost indecent to share these memories of Wan & Huey as intimately & vividly as I watch Dust in the Wind. But like past memories, Hou's treatment of these moments are so fleeting & democratic. Another Hou masterpiece. #houhsiaohsien #taiwanesecinema
Compared w/ Hou's City of Sadness, Good Men, Good Women is a much more complex film, both structurally & thematically. It starts out with a young actress Liang Ching with a troubled past as she prepares the role of Chiang Bi-yu, a real life character in a film version of GMGW, about a group of young Taiwanese idealists going over to the mainland China to join the resistance against Japanese in WWII. The bw version of film-within-film is scattered through out, giving the island nation's tumultuous history. It also loosely connects with the life of Liang in the present time who has been leading rather a decadent life. She is also haunted by the memories of her lover, a low level gangster who was murdered some years ago. There is obviously a larger context in play here - the nation's shameful past needs to be recognized in order to go forward. Complex, asymmetrical & enigmatic, yet richly rewarding, GMGW is the Hou film I was craving for. #houhsiaohsien #taiwanesecinema
