Recommend some Tsai Ming-Liang

Finally saw What Time Is It There? -- the last ten minutes almost made cry. Funny in an Buster Keaton way. The only false note was the mother talking to the fish: the only thumpingly explicit scene.

NY retro plus his new Face:

http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/film/80547/tsai-ming-liang-taiwans-art-house-auteur

face is fantastic, like fellini meets roy andersson

no mention on this thread of goodbye, dragon inn -- definitely one of my top-10-of-the-'00s.

Face is a mess.

goodbye, dragon inn -- definitely one of my top-10-of-the-'00s

Definitely within the top 50 for me.

You give out four stars that often?

You're right. Top 20-ish.

I'm kind of intrigued that it played that well for you at home; sitting in a theater watching it, well, you can imagine. (I saw it in the morning at the Toronto fest.)

If it helps, people kept coming in and out of my apartment and sitting down next to me.

were any of them former Shaw Brothers actors?

As much as I've learned to like a couple of Tsai films, I can't resist the irresistable urge to vacuum and make dinner while the moves are on.

well for GBDI you could mop the floor and make popcorn.

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?

http://i.imgur.com/rXQHPiC.jpg

O_O

rad !

what's the first ?

vive l'amour isn't one of my fav tsais but i just saw dragon inn screened for the first time & thought it was incredible - marienbadesque! - where watching it at home i'd just thought it cute. i always think of morbs' phrasing (iirc), that it 'demands a cinema viewing', so tru of tsai

i wish i could see dragon inn at a cinema.

att Londoners

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/film/tsai-ming-liang-deserted/tsai-ming-liang-masterclass

Cool interview linked to that:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/apr/04/director-tsai-ming-liang-taiwan-long-take-watermelon-sex

yeah really excited about this, going to all the tate stuff and hoping to see the vr on monday

a total delight, hadn't seen any of his work going in. 'goodbye, dragon inn' on 35 mm was incredible, other favourites were 'your face' and 'no no sleep'. tsai and lee kang-sheng were there for pretty much everything, guy has maybe the most radiant positive energy and basically just wanted to talk about his films and kang-sheng forever. masterclass ran over to about two and half hours - mainly talked about moving from the cinema to the gallery and trying to get audiences into both (a lot about how he sells tickets on the streets), not much about actual filmmaking process. did say that 'goodbye dragon inn' is getting a restoration at the film archive atm.

surprised to find that I like slow films like Goodbye, Dragon Inn and Stray Dogs much more after a second viewing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X2ZNw00AIQ&fbclid=IwAR2SpiVFY7f-vSIrMw-MpJlRPkZJLX91fytP6Bt1G4Vmb_Vvox1-3sPa0nY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXTdtn1ZOHA

Can't wait! A bit annoyingly there's a retro beginning in Copenhagen this friday, and it won't have the new one. But looking forward to watching The Hole and Goodbye Dragon Inn next week.

🎥🎥🎥

NYC retro schedule, including appearances

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5204

Rebels of the Neon God on Criterion Channel. More straightforwardly romantic than later pictures, although his camera shows more interest in the brothers' bare chests and their puffy lips than any woman. Strong Nicholas Ray and Van Sant influence. I have an affection for films and novels by artists in embryonic form.

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.