It's a good time for Tsai Ming-liang fans. Not long after his latest masterpiece, Days, opened to the widest acclaim he's ever received and Goodbye, Dragon Inn...
When Apichatpong Weerasethakul calls it "THE best film of the last 125 years," lend a second of your time. Largely unseen upon its 2004 release by Steve Bannon...
We have been crazy about Tsai Ming-liang's Days for quite a while—premiering at Berlin 2020, which will go down as the last gasp of film culture as we knew it ...
Though far better known by its English title, the appropriately elegiac Goodbye, Dragon Inn, Tsai Ming-liang’s 2003 masterpiece bears a rather different name i...
The first film I saw when Metrograph opened a few years back was a first-time viewing of Tsai Ming-liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn on 35mm, so it's a bittersweet f...
With each October comes the Chicago International Film Festival, but with 2020 also comes a pandemic. Yes, CIFF is rightfully falling in the same school as sev...
We have had the privilege of speaking with Taiwan-based filmmaker/master of slow cinema Tsai Ming-liang three times over the last four years (see here, here, a...
Not a huge amount takes place at the beginning of Days. The opening exchanges are elemental: wind blows; rain patters; grass shivers; a boy in pink shorts play...
