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Twitch (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... top 3, and three in total in the 54 item list. There are also 3 Apichatpong Weerasethakul films, 3 Hou Hsiao-hsien films, 2 Tsai Ming-liang, and others from Wong Kar Wai, Lee Chang-Dong, Edward Yang and Hiyao Miyazaki. That is a lot of love, considering Asia if often underrepresented at TIFF compared to the USA or Europe (or even Australia). Not that these films were necessarily chosen by...
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s City of Sadness opens with Emperor Hirohito’s radio announcement renouncing his divinity going unremarked by a Taiwanese family as they gather around a newborn son, establishing both the distance of power from the everyday and its invisible pervasiveness. Hou’s tactic is not simply a clever way of handling a tale of people caught up in the world historic,...
Danwei (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... of the country. He also participated in national level Sino-Japanese events. Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien (侯孝贤) suggested The Warrior and the Wolf to Tian Zhuangzhuang, but it took ten years to complete his thought processes on the film; it wasn't political like The Blue Kite , but it was erotic. The protagonists, a war general of the Warring States period, and...
Tativille (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
... to stream in from these earlier hot-spots, and particularly from Taiwan, whose trio of masters - Hou Hsiao-hsien ( Millennium Mambo , 2001; Café Lumière , 2003; Three Times , 2005; Flight of the Red Balloon , 2007), Tsai Ming-liang ( Goodbye Dragon Inn , 2003 - pictured ; I Don't Want to Sleep Alone , 2006) and the late Edward Y ang ( Yi Yi , 2000) - produced some of the very...
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight — Beaming and leaning Last Year at Marienbad [Alain Resnais, 1961] # I could watch this movie a million times. A lot funnier than I remembered, though I remembered it being funny, I think. Another reason to own a Blu-ray player, no doubt. I wrote a smarter, funnier response over here . City of Sadness [Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989] Not quite the emotional experience I'd...
Hell on Frisco Bay (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
More than ten years ago, the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, then still located in Golden Gate Park, hosted a retrospective of the work of Taiwanese master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien. I was preparing an extended trip abroad myself at the time, and missed the entire cycle, but upon my return I often heard Hou's name spoken in hushed tones by local moviegoers, and determined to seek his work out....
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... enough for you, I can always recommend the adaptation be helmed by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien, who has done right by Lamorisse before (see Flight of the Red Balloon ). What do you have to say for yourself, film bloggers? Scott Miller at ScreenRant : "Here's hoping for something more like Pirates and less like Transformers 2 . Speaking of, I think excellent acting is part of what...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Le voyage du ballon rouge [ Flight of the Red Balloon ] – dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien [Edited together from previous entries] There are so many singular aspects of Flight of the Red Balloon , Hou Hsiao-hsien’s first film made outside of Asia, to marvel at that it's almost stupefying that the film encompasses them with such ease. Firstly, there's Mark Lee Pin Bing's cinematography,...
filmcritic.com Movie Reviews (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... in Paris with a massive ego and sans a paying job.Commissioned by the same program that brought Hou Hsiao-hsien to France for his sublime and funded Olivier Assayas' masterful , Night and Day accomplishes two things that have long been prognosticated for this young, immensely talented filmmaker's career: First, it brings him to the country that many have called his artistic touchstone. Hong...
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
... calls to mind the ongoing series of films commissioned by Paris' Musee D'Orsay, which includes Hou Hsiao-hsien's "Flight of the Red Balloon" and Olivier Assayas' "Summer Hours," as well as the Louvre-sponsored "Visage," Tsai Ming-liang's new film. Wouldn't it be cool if an American institution did something similarly ambitious? Not that they'd ever want to be viewed as copycats, but Pixar...
