Reminds me I need to get Yi Yi for my film collection. It was the only film of his I've seen, and I remember it was one of the best films I had seen in a year of great cinema. (I saw Croupier and After Life on the same weekend)
Oh yeah, 1999-2000 was a golden age! I still haven't seen "Croupier."
Yang's "A Brighter Summer Day" is also really good but hard to find. (A friend let me borrow the laser disc back then.)
I have bought the Fox Lorber DVD for Yi Yi twice(!), but it's a really crappy transfer; it looks like VHS (the trailer is somehow better quality than the movie itself). So, make sure to get the new Criterion Collection version--I've got my eye on it as well.
I am super bummed that there will never be a new Edward Yang movie again.
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Yang's "A Brighter Summer Day" is also really good but hard to find. (A friend let me borrow the laser disc back then.)
I have bought the Fox Lorber DVD for Yi Yi twice(!), but it's a really crappy transfer; it looks like VHS (the trailer is somehow better quality than the movie itself). So, make sure to get the new Criterion Collection version--I've got my eye on it as well.
I am super bummed that there will never be a new Edward Yang movie again.
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