Taiwan – Perisphere

Time and Tide: That Day, on the Beach

By Matt Levine March 17, 2023 March 24, 2023 Edward Yang, Giant of Taiwanese Cinema

A woman in a white business suit is walking down a street in Taipei in the middle of the afternoon. Her back is turned toward us and the sunlight casts the sidewalk in a soft glow.

|Nick Kouhi| François Truffaut once claimed that every director’s film is a remake, more or less, of their first feature. Such an assertion suggests that to truly understand any auteur’s intentions, one must return to the crucible from which their art was forged. Continue reading

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Yi Yi (A one and a two…)

By Matt Levine March 13, 2023 March 13, 2023 Edward Yang, Giant of Taiwanese Cinema

A father and his eight-year-old son are formally dressed in suits, sitting at a table in a McDonald’s in Taiwan, as seen in the film "Yi Yi." The son is eating a chicken nugget from a tray of food in front of him; the father is sitting next to the son on his left and is yawning with closed eyes.

|Azra Thakur| Wendy Ide, a film critic for The Guardian, was recently critical of films running over three hours, as she argued that films in the pandemic-times we continue to live in should be limited in their running length: “No film needs to be longer than three hours.” Continue reading