Posts Tagged ‘Asian cinema’
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Tsai Ming-liang: Chasing the Film Spirit
By Tsai Ming-liang
Filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang recalls his relationship to cinema, onscreen and off.
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When the Stars Align
By Chloe Lizotte
Stanley Kwan’s 1991 masterwork Center Stage unites two preeminent actresses divided by generations, Maggie Cheung and the silent-screen star she embodies, Ruan Lingyu.
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Distant Traveler
By Amy Taubin
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s films of isolation perfectly suit the mood of today, but To the Ends of the Earth, in which a young woman feels lost in a faraway land, brings less doom to the usual reality-fantasy mix.
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Lucky Together
By Aliza Ma
Tsai Ming-liang’s poetic Goodbye, Dragon Inn charts the empty spaces found within—and created by—cinemas fading into obscurity.
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Delinquents
By Ackbar Abbas
In Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong, disaffected youngsters embody historical promises unkept.
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An End and a Beginning
By Ariel Esteban Cayer
Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong captures the realities of Hong Kong’s marginalized people with immediacy and urgency.
