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A Brighter Summer Day is a 1991 Taiwanese epic [1] crime drama film directed by Edward Yang, associated with the New Taiwanese Cinema. Its English title is derived from the lyrics of Elvis Presley's 1960 rendition of "Are You Lonesome Tonight?".
A Brighter Summer Day was the first film that, per say, changed my outlook on what cinema is and could be. I had only watched a handful of international films at the time (let alone anything we could consider “True Film” in this sub or outside of it in like Letterboxd or IMDB) and I just remember being blown away.
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Among the most praised and sought-after titles in all contemporary film, this singular masterpiece of Taiwanese cinema, directed by Edward Yang, finally comes to home video in the United States. Set in the early sixties in Taiwan, A Brighter Summer Dayis based on the true story of a crime that rocked the nation. A film of both sprawling scope and t...
Never seeing a legitimate home video release in North America despite its growing stature over time, the complete 237-minute version of Edward Yang’s A Brighter Summer Dayis being released on Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection, who present the film in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The new 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation is presented...
The audio is delivered in lossless linear PCM 1.0 mono and despite the single-channel limitation it’s a strong presentation, with decent range and fidelity behind it. Dialogue sounds clear, music is also clean, lacking any edge, and I didn’t notice any background noise or damage. It sounds good.
Though it may not look like much, Criterion provides an extensive amount of material for the film, running just over 7-hours in all. Of course that time takes into account the audio commentaryby Tony Rayns, recorded in 2014 and running over the entirety of the film. Rayns opens the track explaining that he dislikes commentaries that simply reiterat...
It’s insane to me that this film has neverreceived any sort of home video release in North America prior to this one, but Criterion nicely rights that wrong with this edition. The presentation may be open to improvement but on the whole I thought it looked very strong and will be surely a welcome sight to those who only saw the film through lacklus...
Feb 24, 2020 · Edward Yang’s 1991 masterpiece A Brighter Summer Day is set in Taipei, 1960-61, and based on an event in the filmmaker’s life that took place when he was thirteen.
A Brighter Summer Day resembles that feeling of wanting to shout something out in the air--but not being able to, to reserve your profound necessity to cry, a feeling which i'm sure a lot of people will have felt.
A Brighter Summer Day: Directed by Edward Yang. With Chang Chen, Lisa Yang, Kuo-Chu Chang, Elaine Jin. Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.
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A few days later, we watched Yi Yi with an introduction by Edward Yang’s son, and he said something along the lines of like “Did A Brighter Summer Day really have to be 4 hours long? Feels like a bit much.”
