Will You Still Be My Friend ★★★
Economic and ecological priorities are at the core of Lu Po-Shun‘s classic but also a tad conventional coming-of-age tale ofContinue Reading
Tag: Taiwan
What We’re Watching – August 2024
Films from Chang Cheh and Edward Yang make up our What We’re Watching this month along with an exciting popcornContinue Reading
The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien
With the announcement at the end of October that director Hou Hsiao-hsien had retired due to dementia, we knew weContinue Reading
Most Anticipated of January 2022
Alex Sitaras: Like its two predecessors, Asghar Farhadi‘s A Hero has its US release in the first months of theContinue Reading
Most Anticipated of May 2021
Eugene Kang: With the lack of major studio releases until June, we must look to the relatively smaller movies forContinue Reading
Hope and Humanism in Yi Yi
“Movies are so lifelike – that’s why we love them” The last time I wrote about Edward Yang‘s Yi YiContinue Reading
20 Favorites Leading Up to 2020
Deviating a bit from usual end-of-decade lists, we asked our critics to list their 20 favorite films from the 21stContinue Reading
Nina Wu ★★½
At its core, the #MeToo movement has at least somewhat succeeded in exposing the degree to which corruption, misogyny, andContinue Reading
