Ecstatic Nostalgia: New Theater Work by Tsai Ming-liang
Andrew ChanTsai offers both an intensified take on his brand of voyeurism and a sweet valentine to his cast of regulars.
Tsai offers both an intensified take on his brand of voyeurism and a sweet valentine to his cast of regulars.
The event of the week in film criticism is the arrival of a new issue of Senses of Cinema, featuring a transcript of a talk Tsai Ming-liang delivered last year, "On the Uses and Misuses of Cinema
Surprises big and small have peppered Rotterdam as they will any film festival, but who could have guessed that Madame Butterfly, the new 30 minute short work by Tsai Ming-liang (whose feature Face is
François Truffaut: A Winter Portrait, running Tuesdays through December 22 at the French Institute Alliance Française in New York, showcases the less-heralded work of the 1970s. "The 'efficiency' of
Tsai Ming-liang’s movies, critics noted more and more in his last few films, are founded from parallel universes, banal reality and another universe that opens up inside it. The other universe can