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If you have never had the pleasure of seeing something by Tsai Ming-liang, the Mayalsian-born, Taiwan-based filmmaker who is a fixture at international festivals, take advantage of the homage running today through Nov. 21 at the Asia Society. The ...
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Maggie Cheung alert!She walked the Taiwanese red carpet today in this white number to your left. She was presenting Best Picture at the Golden Horse Awards. The Golden Horse is Taiwanese in origin but it's for Chinese language films regardless of country of origin so it's very competitive now. Warlords and Lust, Caution, which both had international releases, were recent winners of Best Picture.This year, Maggie handed the trophy to No Puedo...
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From filmexperience.blogspot.com
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As a Taiwanese director whose films have often been French co-productions, Tsai Ming-liang is likely well aware of the seven hour time difference between Taipei and Paris. This fact also becomes significant to a Taiwanese street vendor who compulsively starts setting clocks to Parisian time in Tsai Ming-liang’s What Time is it There? which concludes the Asia Society’s Faces of Tsai Ming-liang retrospective this Saturday.Tsai stalwart Lee Kang...
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Taiwan Y2K: It’s not exactly the end of the world, but nobody feels fine. The government has established wide quarantine areas following the outbreak of the so-called “Taiwan Fever.” The water is unsafe, the weather is awful, and the few holdouts refusing to evacuate their old apartments are profoundly lonely. Such is Taiwan in the year 2000 as envisioned by Tsai Ming-liang in his 1997 film, The Hole, which screens at the Asia Society as part...
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From jbspins.blogspot.com
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For three characters, the unwelcoming urban environment of Taipei is hardly conducive for forging human connections. Their director ought to know. He was a stranger there himself. Born to an ethnic Chinese family in Malaysia, Tsai Ming-liang became the leading director associated with Taiwanese cinema’s “Second New Wave.” That sense of otherness informs much of Tsai’s work, especially his international breakout film, Vive L’Amour, which...
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Robert here, continuing my series of the directors that shaped the past 10 years. It’s difficult approaching a director whose work has gotten little mainstream American exposure, especially when such lack of exposure is understandable. Still, lack of exposure does not negate importance. And some of the most important directors of the past decade are ones that are minimally distributed here in the States. I intend on giving these directors...
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From filmexperience.blogspot.com
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“Jerry Lewis: Clown prince of arrested development or the most cerebral Hollywood funny man since Buster Keaton?” asks the Village Voice’s J. Hoberman. “Either you find Jer’s manic outbursts funny, or you don’t, but there’s no disputing his ambition.” Audiences in New York have the chance to decide for themselves as Anthology Film Archives presents “Directed by Jerry Lewis,” showcasing several of the comedian-director’s films through November...
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