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Part of Taipei Tales: The Cinema of Edward Yang. NEW 4K RESTORATION! Edward Yang’s second feature is a mournful anatomy of a city caught between the past and the present. Made in collaboration with Yang’s fellow New Taiwan Cinema master Hou Hsiao-hsien, who cowrote the screenplay and helped finance the project, Taipei Story chronicles the growing estrangement between a washed-up baseball player (Hou, in a rare on-screen performance) working in his family’s textile business and his ...
Framed in precisely calibrated compositions of urban anonymity and featuring a nonprofessional cast that Edward Yang hoped would reflect the city as he and friends experienced it firsthand, Taipei Story is a psychologically rich character drama realized through the prism of social critique.
Made in collaboration with Yang's fellow New Taiwan Cinema master Hou Hsiao-hsien, TAIPEI STORY chronicles the growing estrangement between a washed-up baseball player (Hou, in a rare on-screen performance) working in his family’s textile business and his girlfriend (Tsai Chin), who clings to the upward mobility of her career in property development.
Taipei Story is a masterpiece of inner feeling. It reflects the calm of life, through still shots of windows and beds and phones, and yet it reveals a constant inner chaos. Taipei was the centre of a new middle class in a rapidly developed economy. Edward Yang made cinema that probed the hypocrisies and weaknesses of middle class living. In Taipei Story people feel lost in an urban maze, using sunglasses to hide their soul. A moving Pepsi can becomes a symbol for a shallow modern society ...
Edward Yang’s second feature is an elegant, Antonionian tale of urban angst and alienation set in booming, benumbing Taipei. Pop star Tsai Chin (Yang’s first wife) and director Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan’s other world-class filmmaker of the era) play an upwardly mobile, profoundly dissatisfied couple.
The release includes a new English subtitle translation, an audio commentary featuring critic Tony Rayns, an interview with actor Chang Chen; Our Time, Our Story, a 117-minute documentary from 2002 about the New Taiwan Cinema movement, featuring interviews with Yang and film-makers Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang, among others; a videotaped performance of director Edward Yang's 1992 play Likely Consequence; an essay by critic Godfrey Cheshire, and a 1991 director's statement by Yang.
Mar 14, 2017 · The late Edward Yang’s 1985 film Taipei Story portrays a couple that has begun to drift apart: the white-collar and upwardly mobile Chin (pop star Tsai Chin, soon to marry the filmmaker), who is ...
