― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
i used this strategy, and haven't seen any more of his films.
― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link
I like Rebels of the Neon God and The River (sort of bookends in the family cycle), but I think What Time Is It There? was a leap forward. Goodbye Dragon Inn almost requires a theater viewing, I think.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link
sleep's place has unbelievably bad plumbing.
The Hole's OK but I like it least of the family-centered films due to the Dennis Potterlike musical numbers, a trope I thought worked better in the new Wayward Cloud.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Realism?
-- Eric H.
Yeah, I mean feel free to define realist cinema and explain why Tsai falls outside that. I've probably misunderstood the term.
― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link
OK, possibly unclear use of "all", but of course I can only speak for all the ones I've seen, listed in the previous post. None of which have any musical numbers.
― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, well, I always give Ozu-influenced filmmakers the benefit of the doubt.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Finally saw What Time Is It There? -- the last ten minutes almost made cry. Funny in an Buster Keaton way. The only false note was the mother talking to the fish: the only thumpingly explicit scene.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 17 September 2007 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
NY retro plus his new Face:
http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/film/80547/tsai-ming-liang-taiwans-art-house-auteur
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 November 2009 04:59 (fourteen years ago) link
face is fantastic, like fellini meets roy andersson
― peter falk's panther burns (schlump), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
no mention on this thread of goodbye, dragon inn -- definitely one of my top-10-of-the-'00s.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 12 November 2009 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Face is a mess.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 December 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
goodbye, dragon inn -- definitely one of my top-10-of-the-'00s
Definitely within the top 50 for me.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 28 December 2009 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
You give out four stars that often?
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 December 2009 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
You're right. Top 20-ish.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 28 December 2009 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm kind of intrigued that it played that well for you at home; sitting in a theater watching it, well, you can imagine. (I saw it in the morning at the Toronto fest.)
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 December 2009 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
If it helps, people kept coming in and out of my apartment and sitting down next to me.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 28 December 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
were any of them former Shaw Brothers actors?
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 December 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
As much as I've learned to like a couple of Tsai films, I can't resist the irresistable urge to vacuum and make dinner while the moves are on.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 December 2009 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
well for GBDI you could mop the floor and make popcorn.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 December 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
And deliver a pink dinner and empty rainwater and dust off ghost peanut shells.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 28 December 2009 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, the buns! Forgot about them.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 December 2009 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
am getting so much out of screening this guy's stuff, having previously only seen a couple.
i don't know a lot about taiwanese cinema - is there anyone working in the same sort of circles i should be aware of?
― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Sunday, 18 April 2010 12:51 (fourteen years ago) link
edward yang, edward yang, edward yang
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 18 April 2010 12:52 (fourteen years ago) link
hou hsao-hsien, hou hsao-hsien, hou hsao-hsien
― Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Sunday, 18 April 2010 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Jia Zhangke, whose movies are a little faster.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 18 April 2010 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks a lot y'all. i've seen a little of each, but yang in particular i've totally overlooked. i can't get hold of anything that isn't yi-yi here but will make some efforts.
― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Monday, 19 April 2010 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Taipei Story is good, do is everything else
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 19 April 2010 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link
mainland director iirc
― █▓▒░ 97 people sleep immediately after seeing this video ░▒▓█ (dyao), Monday, 19 April 2010 12:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i meant to say that i will be almost racistly liberal with my definition of taiwanese cinema. TML works all over so malay or whatever is also acceptable. i get, more, the bresson comparison after seeing i don't want to sleep alone, it's more stylistic links i'm exploring.
― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Monday, 19 April 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
rebels of the neon god was nice
― dayo, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Not a single mention of I Don't Want To Sleep Alone? Probably one of my favourite films of the last 5 years or so.
― thubms up for lesebons (admrl), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Also:
Tom Lin Shu-Yu: http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=107670
And Tzu-Jui Hsu's "Rondo" if u can find it.
― thubms up for lesebons (admrl), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know a lot about taiwanese cinema - is there anyone working in the same sort of circles i should be aware of?― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Sunday, April 18, 2010 5:51 AM (5 months ago)
― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Sunday, April 18, 2010 5:51 AM (5 months ago)
Ang Lee, but before you LOL check Raise The Red Lantern and Eat Drink Man Woman.
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
forgot to post this interview:
RS: Will there be more Walker films? What particular challenges do they pose?
Tsai: I love filming the act of walking, because no preparation is needed. Just a little makeup for Hsiao-kang, and a red monk’s robe. We go to the location I have selected and begin to film. It’s like when a painter goes out to paint a still life. Have you ever heard of a painter planning or conceptualizing anything before going out to paint a still life? He paints what he finds and sees. Because the world is so full of wonders, one can never run out of subjects to paint. Why deliberately worry or challenge myself?
RS: You seem to be interested in public spaces in which lonely strangers can fleetingly intersect—markets, video arcades, movie theaters. Do you see these public spaces disappearing—or people disappearing from them? How do you think the Internet has changed the fumbling for connection that your films depict? Have you thought to try to reflect the change of these rituals in your films?
Tsai: I think that creation and life are inextricable, and beyond this there is nothing else. If a filmmaker isn’t a marketer, then essentially his work is the reflection of life through his own unique spiritual and psychological perspective. I like going to traditional markets because the vegetables sold by farmers are more fresh and tasty, and moreover the experience contains deeper flavors of life. When I was a little boy, I used to go to a market next to a clock tower with my grandmother. In my memory, that clock tower looked gigantic. A while later, when the market disappeared, the tower looked more diminutive than ever. Each time I walked past that tower I felt sorrow. Sometimes reality is so depressing one can barely face it. Those disappeared theaters from the memories of my childhood, when I began traveling the world, I realized they can be found everywhere, in equal states of dilapidation, many of which become cruising spots. I liked to go on my own adventures in these places. It’s so hard to describe the feeling I get in these spaces, like a dream covered in mold. Typical trajectories are not part of my world, or my films, and most definitely not part of my dreams.
http://reverseshot.org/interviews/entry/2043/tsaimingliang_interview_2015
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 April 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2MJ68jedKc
New Tsai on youtube in HD. Have to go to bed, looking forward to checking it out tomorrow. The first few moments look like more exploration of digital imagery, which is awesome!
(hope the youtube-link works)
― Frederik B, Monday, 18 May 2015 23:23 (eight years ago) link
Yay!
D'oh, I'm always seeing sequels before the originals.
(Pretty amazing, and now I'm looking forward to the first six.)
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 01:39 (eight years ago) link
Damn, I love what Tsai is doing at the moment. I just simply love it. My favorite artist at the moment, I think. Color, light, movement, body. The most important research into the posibilities of the digital image. I want someone to do an exhibition of this stuff in a museum in Copenhagen. Wish I knew how to do it myself.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 12:17 (eight years ago) link
The first one is on youtube as well, but not in HD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLCM5UXXEAA
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 12:19 (eight years ago) link
The clarity of the HD vid was crucial for No-No; the ramping on the beads of sweat falling.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 12:57 (eight years ago) link
Yup. That is also why it could be cool to see in a museum, where you can walk upclose to the pictures. Stray Dogs is shown as an installation some places, where each shot is shown on different screens. That sounds awesome.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 14:13 (eight years ago) link
Those are some pristine images.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 14:38 (eight years ago) link
Insights: http://entropymag.org/slowness-as-an-act-of-rebellion-on-tsai-ming-liangs-walker/
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 14:39 (eight years ago) link
The two I've seen are particularly "experiential"... I think they sort of need to be seen in a big room in the dark.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link
http://bombmagazine.org/article/916542/tsai-ming-liang
One person thought he stepped on a used needle in the forest, and he was afraid he got AIDS, but actually it was a snake bite.
― 龜, Sunday, 7 June 2015 14:04 (eight years ago) link
And New Wave Film has tweeted they will release Stray Dogs and Journey together on DVD. Can't wait for that package!!!
Finally caught up w/ Journey to the West as part of this tasty double disc set, not on a big screen sadly, but still extraordinary looking - I remember Nakh correctly saying that New Wave's DVD of Unrelated looked like shit, but they've done well by Tsai here - sound, colour, all v. beautiful, there's a shot of a deep red wall that's ravishing, and that's matched to the colour of the red monk robes that are the film's key visual motif. The opening shot of JTTW reminded me strongly of Lynch's Eraserhead - a horizontal face, slowly observed - but here you could study every fissure of Denis Levant's craggy face, his forehead a knot of tension, his eyes dark like blood. Throughout, I was asking myself, how (or how much) is this film directed? Of course, such long takes imply an act of passive observation - the film's epigraph seems to corroborate this - but there's an element of comedy at work too, the walker's slow, inexorable creeping into frame, the way people pay him so little attention, walking round him, stepping out of his way - they literally let him 'be'
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
"Afternoon is a feature-length experimental film that could be taken as the most complex DVD extra ever made. But for devotees of Tsai and his onscreen alter ego, actor Lee Kang-sheng, the film is hypnotic, even as the perversity of its stasis prompts a viewer to wonder whether it has a trajectory or is simply going where it will.”
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-venice-toronto-2015-tsai-ming-liangs-afternoon
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
I wish Bela Tarr was having as productive a retirement.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 21:31 (eight years ago) link
Ah, thought I'd posted this a few weeks back - TML's first mainland exhibition at Guangzhou's Times Museum was amaaazing:http://en.timesmuseum.org/exhibitions/detail/id-599/
Had completely transformed the space into a weird paper-mache/cottonwool labyrinth with screens looping shots, plus a cosy, cocoon-like environment with angled screens with Stray Dogs on a loop.
daring to make a cosmically slow movie about nothing and everything and fill it w/ so many sequences of people sleeping - and pissing! i stayed awake and crossed my legs
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 22 June 2014 19:25
Ha, yeah, I was the only person to stay awake/in-the-room for the entire screening.
― etc, Thursday, 17 September 2015 02:31 (eight years ago) link
A lot of stuff up on Mubi right now
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Thursday, 17 September 2015 02:37 (eight years ago) link
don't think he ever topped Viva L'amour and Dragon Inn. But everything is awesome.
― nostormo, Friday, 2 October 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
http://metrograph.com/edition/article/12/chasing-the-film-spirit
http://i.imgur.com/zkFqjfN.jpgSince early on, there has been a persistent, mysterious image imprinted in my memory banks: a brilliant carp spirit who has taken on the form of a beautiful woman emerging from a pond, vividly glistening, dazzling and unforgettable. It wasn’t until I got older that I realized this image came from a film—based on an old fable—made in Mainland China in the 1950s called Chasing the Fish Spirit. It depicts a divine encounter between a penurious scholar and the fish spirit in a garden. It was not the first film I ever saw; my grandmother and grandfather were the biggest cinephiles I knew, and we started going to movies together when I was three years old. We would go to the cinema twice a day, everyday. Sometimes we would watch the same film over and over again, and sometimes we would find different cinemas to watch something new. That was a golden age for cinema, and I’m proud my childhood coincided with that time.When I was 20 years old, I left my hometown of Kuching, Malaysia. That small town had about a dozen cinemas in which I lingered. They were indelible. Years later when I returned for the first time, I found they had all been demolished, except one, which no longer showed film. It had become a market for various knicknacks. I saw very clearly then that I came into this world at a time of unprecedented rapid change. I couldn’t help but feel wistful and melancholy. Later when I began to make films, I started to have a recurring dream about a cinema called the Odeon, and I had it often until I was 40 years old. I didn’t understand it at all. It didn’t occur to me in my everyday thoughts and yet it presented itself to me each night. Perhaps, I thought, it meant that I was getting old?In 2000, when I made What Time Is It There?, I found an old cinema on the outskirts of Taipei where I wanted to shoot. The feeling of being there had a flavor of death and fecundity, as though I were meeting an old lost friend. Afterwards, I chose this dilapidated old theater—perpetually on the verge of bankruptcy—as the venue for my premiere. It was a dark and stormy night, but the theater was packed. The next day the theater manager called to ask if I would enter into a partnership with him. Of course I turned down this terrible business proposal. He said to me, “Then I have no option but to close the cinema.” I responded, “Wait a minute, okay, rent it to me for one year.” During the subsequent year, I made Goodbye, Dragon Inn.Nowadays everyone watches movies on planes. On any given flight, no matter the airline, you can choose from hundreds of films: Hollywood, Bollywood, all different types of movies. However, you can count on one thing: you’ll never find a Tsai Ming-liang picture on a plane, as I make films that have to be seen on the big screen. If this were not the case, people watching a film of mine on a plane might be confounded into thinking the small screen on the seat in front of them was broken.Translated by Aliza Ma.
Since early on, there has been a persistent, mysterious image imprinted in my memory banks: a brilliant carp spirit who has taken on the form of a beautiful woman emerging from a pond, vividly glistening, dazzling and unforgettable. It wasn’t until I got older that I realized this image came from a film—based on an old fable—made in Mainland China in the 1950s called Chasing the Fish Spirit. It depicts a divine encounter between a penurious scholar and the fish spirit in a garden. It was not the first film I ever saw; my grandmother and grandfather were the biggest cinephiles I knew, and we started going to movies together when I was three years old. We would go to the cinema twice a day, everyday. Sometimes we would watch the same film over and over again, and sometimes we would find different cinemas to watch something new. That was a golden age for cinema, and I’m proud my childhood coincided with that time.
When I was 20 years old, I left my hometown of Kuching, Malaysia. That small town had about a dozen cinemas in which I lingered. They were indelible. Years later when I returned for the first time, I found they had all been demolished, except one, which no longer showed film. It had become a market for various knicknacks. I saw very clearly then that I came into this world at a time of unprecedented rapid change. I couldn’t help but feel wistful and melancholy. Later when I began to make films, I started to have a recurring dream about a cinema called the Odeon, and I had it often until I was 40 years old. I didn’t understand it at all. It didn’t occur to me in my everyday thoughts and yet it presented itself to me each night. Perhaps, I thought, it meant that I was getting old?
In 2000, when I made What Time Is It There?, I found an old cinema on the outskirts of Taipei where I wanted to shoot. The feeling of being there had a flavor of death and fecundity, as though I were meeting an old lost friend. Afterwards, I chose this dilapidated old theater—perpetually on the verge of bankruptcy—as the venue for my premiere. It was a dark and stormy night, but the theater was packed. The next day the theater manager called to ask if I would enter into a partnership with him. Of course I turned down this terrible business proposal. He said to me, “Then I have no option but to close the cinema.” I responded, “Wait a minute, okay, rent it to me for one year.” During the subsequent year, I made Goodbye, Dragon Inn.
Nowadays everyone watches movies on planes. On any given flight, no matter the airline, you can choose from hundreds of films: Hollywood, Bollywood, all different types of movies. However, you can count on one thing: you’ll never find a Tsai Ming-liang picture on a plane, as I make films that have to be seen on the big screen. If this were not the case, people watching a film of mine on a plane might be confounded into thinking the small screen on the seat in front of them was broken.
Translated by Aliza Ma.
― 龜, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 03:21 (eight years ago) link
Is that the same fish-woman fable that makes up the lesser third of Uncle Boonmee...?
― pastoral fantasy (jed_), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 03:28 (eight years ago) link
http://hongkong.coconuts.co/2016/07/14/genius-gets-away-burglary-calls-cops-then-willingly-returns-scene-crime-be-arrested
― 龜, Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/X0GpvCh.jpg
― 龜, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 12:45 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/rXQHPiC.jpg
― 龜, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
O_O
rad !
what's the first ?
vive l'amour isn't one of my fav tsais but i just saw dragon inn screened for the first time & thought it was incredible - marienbadesque! - where watching it at home i'd just thought it cute. i always think of morbs' phrasing (iirc), that it 'demands a cinema viewing', so tru of tsai
― schlump, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 06:03 (seven years ago) link
i wish i could see dragon inn at a cinema.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 10:44 (seven years ago) link
att Londoners
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/film/tsai-ming-liang-deserted/tsai-ming-liang-masterclass
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 April 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link
Cool interview linked to that:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/apr/04/director-tsai-ming-liang-taiwan-long-take-watermelon-sex
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 5 April 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
yeah really excited about this, going to all the tate stuff and hoping to see the vr on monday
― devvvine, Friday, 5 April 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
a total delight, hadn't seen any of his work going in. 'goodbye, dragon inn' on 35 mm was incredible, other favourites were 'your face' and 'no no sleep'. tsai and lee kang-sheng were there for pretty much everything, guy has maybe the most radiant positive energy and basically just wanted to talk about his films and kang-sheng forever. masterclass ran over to about two and half hours - mainly talked about moving from the cinema to the gallery and trying to get audiences into both (a lot about how he sells tickets on the streets), not much about actual filmmaking process. did say that 'goodbye dragon inn' is getting a restoration at the film archive atm.
― devvvine, Monday, 8 April 2019 12:20 (five years ago) link
surprised to find that I like slow films like Goodbye, Dragon Inn and Stray Dogs much more after a second viewing
― Dan S, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 00:41 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X2ZNw00AIQ&fbclid=IwAR2SpiVFY7f-vSIrMw-MpJlRPkZJLX91fytP6Bt1G4Vmb_Vvox1-3sPa0nY
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Monday, 17 February 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXTdtn1ZOHA
Can't wait! A bit annoyingly there's a retro beginning in Copenhagen this friday, and it won't have the new one. But looking forward to watching The Hole and Goodbye Dragon Inn next week.
― Frederik B, Monday, 17 February 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
🎥🎥🎥
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 17 February 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
NYC retro schedule, including appearances
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5204
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 March 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
Rebels of the Neon God on Criterion Channel. More straightforwardly romantic than later pictures, although his camera shows more interest in the brothers' bare chests and their puffy lips than any woman. Strong Nicholas Ray and Van Sant influence. I have an affection for films and novels by artists in embryonic form.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 12:25 (three years ago) link
somewhat pulpy but I loved it
Lee Kang-Sheng is great in it. he plays characters with the same name (Hsiao-Kang) in Vive L'Amour, The River, What Time Is It There?, Goodbye Dragon Inn, The Wayward Cloud, and I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, not sure what that is about
― Dan S, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 01:51 (three years ago) link
The old man does too.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 01:53 (three years ago) link
Find you someone who looks at you like Tsai Ming-Liang looks at Lee Kang-Sheng, as the meme goes.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 12:49 (three years ago) link
I watched a bit of The Wayward Cloud last night and thought, "this must be what Cabbage Head from Kids in the Hall's sex life is like."
― Chris L, Sunday, 4 October 2020 14:52 (three years ago) link
Days is closer to Millenia.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 12:51 (three years ago) link
Not really. Despite the by now expected static compositions, I detected more movement. I'm fascinated by how queer desire eroticizes urban landscapes.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 12:52 (three years ago) link
restoration of Goodbye, Dragon Inn is astonishing
― flappy bird, Sunday, 4 April 2021 06:48 (three years ago) link
I watched The Hole recently (it’s on Kanopy but the restored version is available on VOD) and I wished I had watched it earlier in the pandemic. It captured the emotional tenor of this time so presciently well. I actually think it might be hard to top in that regard.
― Chris L, Sunday, 4 April 2021 10:53 (three years ago) link
finally saw Days last night, damn y'all
it was an outdoor screening so it came complete with outside noise, somehow perfect, despite the group beside me who wouldn't stfu
― bon ivermectin (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
!! ... starts streaming a week from Friday, I think? really looking forward to it
― the adventures of pavlo and schrödis (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
Where is it going to stream again? I assume Mubi.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 19:17 (two years ago) link
looks like it'll be a virtual cinema thing, found it at https://projectr.tv/ through the distributor's site. not sure if anywhere else.
― the adventures of pavlo and schrödis (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link
Tsai Ming-liang: TV, Documentary, and Short FilmsPlease note The Moon is Gone, a TV production, does not have any subtitles. None are available so far as I'm aware. All other titles either have subs or are purposefully presented unsubtitled.https://t.co/52vWLI4acO— JackEason (@realJackEason) November 5, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 6 November 2021 11:27 (two years ago) link
Goodbye, Dragon Inn is one of the surest comedies of the last thirty years.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 January 2022 23:02 (two years ago) link