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Tag: Tsai Ming-Liang

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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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