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REVIEW: Days (2020)

January 13, 2023 Grant Watson

Tsai Ming-liang remains one of global cinema’s great oddities. With each subsequent release his works seem more esoteric, more difficult to categorise, and increasingly closer to being impossible to explain without sounding like a posing eccentric. His debut feature, Rebels of … Continue reading REVIEW: Days (2020)

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REVIEW: Walker (2012)

September 29, 2020August 22, 2021 Grant Watson

Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang is, I think, one of the world’s most interesting filmmakers. It is not simply that he produces interesting and deepful artful narrative features including Rebels of a Neon God and Goodbye, Dragon Inn. He also makes a broad range … Continue reading REVIEW: Walker (2012)

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REVIEW: Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)

February 18, 2020February 18, 2020 Grant Watson

A run-down Taipei cinema screens its final movie: King Hu’s legendary wuxia film Dragon Inn. While the film plays the cinema’s disabled cashier (Chen Shiang-chyi) slowly goes about her work, young gay men awkwardly use the theatre as a place to … Continue reading REVIEW: Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)

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REVIEW: The Deserted (2017)

August 18, 2018August 19, 2019 Grant Watson

A disabled man lives in a decrepit house up on a hill, with only two ghosts and a shape-shifting fish for company. The Deserted is a 55-minute short feature written and directed by Taiwanese arthouse master Tsai Ming-liang, and shot by him … Continue reading REVIEW: The Deserted (2017)

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REVIEW: Rebels of the Neon God (1992)

April 2, 2017 Grant Watson

In a Taipei neighbourhood, the lives of two disaffected teenagers collide. Hsiao Kang (Lee Kang-sheng) struggles through cram schools at his father’s insistence while growing steadily self-destructive. Ah Tze (Chen Chao-jung) is small-time thief who, along with his best friend … Continue reading REVIEW: Rebels of the Neon God (1992)

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