Daily Briefing. The Far East, Megacities and Music
David HudsonA Letter to Momo in Japan, Hou Hsiao-hsien on Taiwanese cinema, Nicolas Rapold on Michael Glawogger, Ben Rivers’s playlist and more.
Hou Hsiao-hsien
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António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro, Ken Jacobs, Taiwan Stories, More
David Hudson"To anyone who was immersed in the fervent cinématheque culture of the immediate post-Salazar era in Portugal, the four films that António Reis, a poet, painter, sculptor, and filmmaker
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What is the 21st Century?: The Quiet American
Ignatiy VishnevetskyWhat is the 21st Century? is the weekly column where Ignatiy Vishnevetsky tries to find an answer to the titular question. *** Above: Alex Descas and Jean-François Stévenin in The Limits of Control
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Now in theaters: "Adventureland" (Mottola, USA)
Daniel KasmanAbove: Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg take a break at Adventureland. I thought of the new wave of Taiwanese films that began in the 1980s and peaked around the time of Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Puppetmaster