Taiwan
Sweet if innocuous entertainment, Love in Taipei is pleasant but predictable.
The NY Asian Film Festival provides movie lovers in the tri-state area with a great opportunity to see films across a wide range of genres.
It’s impossible to not feel a bit existential after watching Millennium Mambo, and with a sumptuous new 4K restoration now available there’s no better time.
Vive L’Amour is one of the best and brightest examples of this; it’s never looked better to feel so alone.
As part of their May lineup for 2021, the Criterion Collection has prepared a new edition of Flowers of Shanghai for release, let’s take a look.
In 2003, Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang released his masterful ode to the magic of movie theaters, Goodbye, Dragon Inn.
The ghosts and ghouls are fun, but this is ultimately supposed to be an allegory for Taiwanese oppression, and on those grounds, Detention fails.
With its flashes of humor and music, The Hole is a disturbingly timely depiction of humanity in crisis that speaks to our current isolation.
There’s certainly a lot to unpack in a film like Wet Season, and it’s something that will surely stick with you for a very long time.
Nina Wu tells a gripping tale, aided by a skillful filmmaker and an incredible performance. Its methods are surreal and dreamlike, but its final destination is painfully real.
Chung takes heavy, economic, social, and intimate struggles of one middle-class family and trusts the audience to find something relatable and universal in their story.
To say that Tsai Ming-Liang’s Rizi is a challenging film would be understating the staggering experience of actually watching the film.
The New Taiwanese Cinema of the ’80s and ’90sis defined by the likes of acclaimed directors like Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang, and Ang Lee.
Daughter of the Nile is a prime example of the underseen gems that we are privileged to finally have access to thanks to distributors like the Cohen Film Collection. You might have to dig a little deeper to find them, but when you do, you are rewarded with something special.
Revisiting Edward Yang’s A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY, a complex and emotional film that explores the past and the present in its 4 hour runtime.
