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Apr 9, 2022 · Edward Yang never made a bad movie, leaving us with seven features that all stand as valuable filmmaking of its own. But by doing so we can bring some much-deserved spotlight to one of the most criminally underrated storytellers of the last thirty years, so up next are his films ranked from good to best.
Edward Yang’s first work made for theatrical release, Expectations, was presented as the second short of this anthology film which revitalized Taiwanese narrative cinema in the 1980s and established a break from decades of rigidly conservative movies entrenched in the local industry. Screening with Yang's unfinished final work The Wind.
May 5, 2024 · Like Murakami, Edward Yang (1947-2007) had a similar flash of insight at a similar age when he came across Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). This film became a powerful inspiration, reminding him that magnificent films could be made without an extravagant budget.
Dec 21, 2023 · Shiang-chyi Chen and Shu-Chun Ni in Edward Yang’s A Confucian Confusion (1994) . B etween his masterworks A Brighter Summer Day (1991) and Yi Yi (2000), Edward Yang cowrote and directed two fast-moving yet melancholic ensemble pieces that explicitly addressed his alarm at how quickly and profoundly rapid globalization was affecting the people of Taiwan, most acutely in the booming capital, Taipei.
Apr 7, 2023 · Edward Yang was born in Shanghai in 1947 and raised in Taiwan, as his parents fled the country near the end of the war. Even though he was always interested in film, he left his aspiration aside ...
Nov 6, 2021 · The six definitive films of Edward Yang: Taipei Story (1985). One of the first examples of New Wave sensibilities in Taiwanese cinema, Taipei Story is a brilliant examination of the overwhelming forces of modernity which facilitate an environment where urban isolation is the unspoken norm.
Jul 19, 2023 · Yang has had numerous posthumous retrospectives internationally, but A One and a Two: Edward Yang Retrospective is the first to present his archives — scripts, essays, diaries — and screen his ...
