Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Michael Colford
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Starring: Kang-sheng Lee | Kuei-Mei Yang | Shiang-chyi Chen | Yi Cheng Lee. Yi Chieh Lee | Yi-ching Lu
Michael says: “After seeing the great director Tsai Ming-liang’s latest film, DAYS, I decided to go back and watch his previous film, and the only of his features that I hadn’t seen, STRAY DOGS. Interestingly enough, while I was braced
Read the review...By Chris Kriofske
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Starring: Anong Houngheuangsy | Kang-sheng Lee
Chris says: “Tsai Ming-liang’s a filmmaker who tends to make the same kind of picture over and over, like Yasujiro Ozu (to name one of his precursors) or Hong Sang-Soo (a contemporary.) This isn’t a deterrent, for nearly three decades
Read the review...By Michael Colford
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Starring: Chang-Bin Jen | Chao-jung Chen | Kang-sheng Lee | Tien Miao | Yi-ching Lu | Yu-Wen Wang
Michael says: “When Chris mentioned recently that he caught Tsai Ming-liang’s debut feature, REBELS OF THE NEON GOD, I realized that I too had never gone back to watch this film from one of my favorite directors. What I perhaps
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ming-liang | Tsai
Starring: Kang-sheng Lee | Shiang-chyi Chen | Yi-ching Lu
Michael says: “The story unfolds ever so slowly, and the pace doesn’t change throughout the nearly 2-hour running time, but is punctuated by sudden scenes of bizarre hilarity. WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? follows the lives of three people who
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Starring: Ann Hui | Chao-jung Chen | Kang-sheng Lee | Shiang-chyi Chen | Tien Miao | Yi-ching Lu
Bruce says: “A college-aged boy is on the up escalator going to a big department store when he is spotted by a girl he hasn’t seen in two years who is on the adjacent down escalator. They begin talking and
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