Update: "Hou Hsiao-hsien's family released a statement today confirming that Hou has Alzheimer's. Initially, it didn't affect his filmmaking work, but long COV...
It's as David Bowie sang: revolution comes in the strangest ways. When Apichatpong Weerasethakul curated a series for New York's Film at Lincoln Center this sp...
Hou Hsiao-hsien may never make another movie, but if so few of the films populating his decades-long career have received anything like decent treatment it's g...
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Millennium Mambo premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001 to, sadly, so little enthusiasm outside the highbrow crowd that it didn't fina...
Slowly but surely the works of one of the greatest directors in cinema history are getting restored. On the heels of the recent Flowers of Shanghai revamp, Hou...
After a prolific first two decades of his career (with many films we hope will get new restorations), Chinese-born Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien has been ta...
Building up a towering body of work over the last four decades, it's remarkable that Hou Hsiao-hsien hadn't had a film in The Criterion Collection––until now. ...
Getting over my grudge that one hasn't really seen Flowers of Shanghai unless seen on an abjectly hideous all-region DVD taken from your college library, I can...
