That Day on the Beach

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