Last night, I watched half of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Three Times, which confirmed that he is absolutely one of my favorite filmmakers. Like a lot of my favorite filmmakers (Abbas Kiarostami, Tsai Ming-Liang, Amos Gitai, etc.), Hou's style involves long, static takes, the subversion of "drama," and a demand that the audience train themselves to see
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