Recommend some Tsai Ming-Liang

And deliver a pink dinner and empty rainwater and dust off ghost peanut shells.

oh, the buns! Forgot about them.

am getting so much out of screening this guy's stuff, having previously only seen a couple.

i don't know a lot about taiwanese cinema - is there anyone working in the same sort of circles i should be aware of?

edward yang, edward yang, edward yang

hou hsao-hsien, hou hsao-hsien, hou hsao-hsien

Jia Zhangke, whose movies are a little faster.

thanks a lot y'all. i've seen a little of each, but yang in particular i've totally overlooked. i can't get hold of anything that isn't yi-yi here but will make some efforts.

Taipei Story is good, do is everything else

Jia Zhangke, whose movies are a little faster.

mainland director iirc

mainland director iirc

i meant to say that i will be almost racistly liberal with my definition of taiwanese cinema. TML works all over so malay or whatever is also acceptable. i get, more, the bresson comparison after seeing i don't want to sleep alone, it's more stylistic links i'm exploring.

rebels of the neon god was nice

Not a single mention of I Don't Want To Sleep Alone? Probably one of my favourite films of the last 5 years or so.

Also:

Tom Lin Shu-Yu: http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=107670

And Tzu-Jui Hsu's "Rondo" if u can find it.

i don't know a lot about taiwanese cinema - is there anyone working in the same sort of circles i should be aware of?

― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Sunday, April 18, 2010 5:51 AM (5 months ago)

Ang Lee, but before you LOL check Raise The Red Lantern and Eat Drink Man Woman.

except Raise The Red Lantern is Zhang Yimou

(who is not from Taiwan)

haha... why did I think that was Ang Lee? Doesn't he have a period piece along the same lines? #toolazytogoogle

Not a single mention of I Don't Want To Sleep Alone? Probably one of my favourite films of the last 5 years or so.

― thubms up for lesebons (admrl), Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:29 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

wayward cloud, too. obscenity, symbolism, musical numbers and all. less impressed with what time is it there, despite the beautiful photography. seen it three times and still can't quite get past the surface.

hou hsao-hsien, hou hsao-hsien, hou hsao-hsien

― Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Sunday, April 18, 2010 7:06 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark

hear this a lot, but found millennium mambo rather thin and tedious. any other hou suggestions?

Yes, Three Times

A thousand times Three Times

'a time to live and a time to die' is the best i've seen. have .avis of the older ones that i haven't got round to. not crazy about tml, but have given his stuff more of a go recently.

'a time to live and a time to die' is the best i've seen

^^^ and Goodbye South, Goodbye. You can skip the first and last sections of Three Times.

I think Hou produced Raise the Red Latern

"Edward Yang, Edward Yang, Edward Yang" is the better answer, imo.

But Wayward Cloud put me off Tsai for a while, so maybe I'm not the dude to listen to.

rebels of the neon god was nice

― dayo, Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:38 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ah one of a couple I haven't seen, I oughtta

stray dogs got picked up by cinema guild, so might be visible at some point. also screenings of that & what time is it there in LA in March

http://www.yale.edu/wake/fall03/tsai.html

His new short, Journey to the West, is avaible for streaming here

Stray Dogs is a massive masterpiece, the best film I've seen in years. Written more about it here: http://centrifugue.blogspot.com/2014/04/cphpix-day-3-when-evening-falls-on.html (scroll down)

man, those last two shots of Stray Dogs are BRUTAL

v. daring to make a cosmically slow movie about nothing and everything and fill it w/ so many sequences of people sleeping - and pissing! i stayed awake and crossed my legs

I loved that film

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and eating - never has chicken looked so disgusting

Such a great film. The best I've seen since Uncle Boonmee. After I'd seen it a second time I was mainly sad that I need to wait until the blu-ray release to see it again :(

my metabolism is such that there's no way i'd be awake for all of that movie.

where did you see this Ward F?

i saw it at the edinburgh film fest yesterday - in fact it's showing there again on the 29th:

http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/films/2014/stray-dogs

I won't have time to see it, sadly, but thanks for the info.

Oh, jealous! Isn't Journey to the West and Walking on Water there as well? You should really catch those as well!

Saw Journey to the West on the big screen. Late Tsai is pretty much the greatest thing in the world. And New Wave Film has tweeted they will release Stray Dogs and Journey together on DVD. Can't wait for that package!!!

Rewatched The Hole on scratchy celluloid with Swedish subtitles. Fourth time I've seen Tsai on big screen this year - Stray Dogs twice and Journey to the West. For that reason alone, 2014 has been a very fine cineastic year. The Hole wasn't as good as I'd made it up to be in my head, though. Amazing ending, but it meanders a bit and seems unsure how to connect all the little weird elements of it. I love the musical numbers, love the cat, loved the scene where the man flees with the cat from the exterminators' fumes, and the one where the bean-sauce-buyer walks away and into the light. But... relationship drama done better in Vive l'Amour, the scenes of loners wandering the market are amazing and moody but Goodbye Dragon Inn takes that theme and runs with it. So minor Tsai.

Stray Dogs on Netflix stream.

That's one for which you should delete the fast forward button

on the NYC Tsai retro and US release of Rebels of the Neon God

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-tsai-ming-liang-in-new-york

btw for reasons that are obvious when you see it, the most essential feature to see on a theater screen is Goodbye, Dragon Inn (showing at end of Queens series on Sunday).

I saw two of the slooooow monk movies on Saturday -- Walker, a short where Lee, in red robes, moves at barely preceptiple pokiness in a variety of Hong Kong settings, and then the hourlong Journey to the West, where he does the same in Marseille, trailed by Denis Lavant. They're more "experiential" than evaluable, but I enjoyed seeing them.

Nick Pinkerton on Goodbye, Dragon Inn:

http://reverseshot.org/symposiums/entry/329/goodbye_dragon_inn_0

forgot to post this interview:

RS: Will there be more Walker films? What particular challenges do they pose?

Tsai: I love filming the act of walking, because no preparation is needed. Just a little makeup for Hsiao-kang, and a red monk’s robe. We go to the location I have selected and begin to film. It’s like when a painter goes out to paint a still life. Have you ever heard of a painter planning or conceptualizing anything before going out to paint a still life? He paints what he finds and sees. Because the world is so full of wonders, one can never run out of subjects to paint. Why deliberately worry or challenge myself?

RS: You seem to be interested in public spaces in which lonely strangers can fleetingly intersect—markets, video arcades, movie theaters. Do you see these public spaces disappearing—or people disappearing from them? How do you think the Internet has changed the fumbling for connection that your films depict? Have you thought to try to reflect the change of these rituals in your films?

Tsai: I think that creation and life are inextricable, and beyond this there is nothing else. If a filmmaker isn’t a marketer, then essentially his work is the reflection of life through his own unique spiritual and psychological perspective. I like going to traditional markets because the vegetables sold by farmers are more fresh and tasty, and moreover the experience contains deeper flavors of life. When I was a little boy, I used to go to a market next to a clock tower with my grandmother. In my memory, that clock tower looked gigantic. A while later, when the market disappeared, the tower looked more diminutive than ever. Each time I walked past that tower I felt sorrow. Sometimes reality is so depressing one can barely face it. Those disappeared theaters from the memories of my childhood, when I began traveling the world, I realized they can be found everywhere, in equal states of dilapidation, many of which become cruising spots. I liked to go on my own adventures in these places. It’s so hard to describe the feeling I get in these spaces, like a dream covered in mold. Typical trajectories are not part of my world, or my films, and most definitely not part of my dreams.

http://reverseshot.org/interviews/entry/2043/tsaimingliang_interview_2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2MJ68jedKc

New Tsai on youtube in HD. Have to go to bed, looking forward to checking it out tomorrow. The first few moments look like more exploration of digital imagery, which is awesome!

(hope the youtube-link works)

Yay!

D'oh, I'm always seeing sequels before the originals.

(Pretty amazing, and now I'm looking forward to the first six.)

somewhat pulpy but I loved it

Lee Kang-Sheng is great in it. he plays characters with the same name (Hsiao-Kang) in Vive L'Amour, The River, What Time Is It There?, Goodbye Dragon Inn, The Wayward Cloud, and I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, not sure what that is about

The old man does too.

Find you someone who looks at you like Tsai Ming-Liang looks at Lee Kang-Sheng, as the meme goes.

I watched a bit of The Wayward Cloud last night and thought, "this must be what Cabbage Head from Kids in the Hall's sex life is like."

Days is closer to Millenia.

Not really. Despite the by now expected static compositions, I detected more movement. I'm fascinated by how queer desire eroticizes urban landscapes.

restoration of Goodbye, Dragon Inn is astonishing

I watched The Hole recently (it’s on Kanopy but the restored version is available on VOD) and I wished I had watched it earlier in the pandemic. It captured the emotional tenor of this time so presciently well. I actually think it might be hard to top in that regard.

finally saw Days last night, damn y'all

it was an outdoor screening so it came complete with outside noise, somehow perfect, despite the group beside me who wouldn't stfu

!! ... starts streaming a week from Friday, I think? really looking forward to it

Where is it going to stream again? I assume Mubi.

looks like it'll be a virtual cinema thing, found it at https://projectr.tv/ through the distributor's site. not sure if anywhere else.

Tsai Ming-liang: TV, Documentary, and Short Films

Please note The Moon is Gone, a TV production, does not have any subtitles. None are available so far as I'm aware. All other titles either have subs or are purposefully presented unsubtitled.https://t.co/52vWLI4acO

— JackEason (@realJackEason) November 5, 2021

Goodbye, Dragon Inn is one of the surest comedies of the last thirty years.