Taiwan Archive
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Arvin Chen’s “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?” – 2013 HKIFF Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on March 21, 2013 | No CommentsIn his latest, Chen surpasses his 2010 debut ("Au Revoir Taipei") with a growing maturity in his filmmaking. The movie makes its Asian premiere at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. -
Review: Tsai Ming-liang’s “I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone”
Christopher BournePosted on April 20, 2012 | No CommentsI Don’t Want to Sleep Alone, the title of this beautiful film from Taiwanese master Tsai Ming-liang, could apply equally to any of his other features, since this film... -
Review: Lin Tay-jou’s “Bardo”
Christopher BournePosted on January 6, 2012 | No CommentsTaiwanese experimental and documentary filmmaker Lin Tay-jou’s 2005 film Bardo is a 70-minute triptych about the stages of life death, and rebirth. As Lin himself explains on the film’s website, the... -
Review: Chen Kuo-fu’s “The Personals”
Christopher BournePosted on December 30, 2011 | No CommentsIn this lightly comic and ultimately poignant 1998 film from Taiwanese director Chen Kuo-fu, the city of Taipei is as much a character as the humans in the story. The... -
Review: Tsai Ming-liang’s “The Hole”
Christopher BournePosted on June 10, 2011 | No CommentsOne of the most interesting things about Tsai Ming-liang’s filmmaking career, considering what an inimitable and uncompromising artist he is, is the fact that three of the nine... -
Review: Tsai Ming-liang’s “Rebels of the Neon God”
Christopher BournePosted on May 20, 2011 | No CommentsOne major element of Tsai Ming-liang’s films, remarked on by many commentators, is water; Tsai’s films are practically drenched with it. Water, in all its forms, courses through the films;... -
Review: Chung Mong-hong’s “The Fourth Portrait”
Christopher BournePosted on May 8, 2011 | No CommentsTwice in The Fourth Portrait, Chung Mong-hong’s downbeat, episodic, and almost surreally fragmented second feature, Wen-hsiang (Bi Xiao-hai), the ten-year old boy at the narrative’s center, enters, and emerges from,... -
Review: “Juliets”
Christopher BournePosted on May 7, 2011 | No CommentsThe omnibus film Juliets consists of three short films set in the 1970’s, the 1980’s (in flashback), and the present day, all riffing on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. As... -
The best films of the 2010 Pusan International Film Festival
Christopher BournePosted on August 31, 2010 | No CommentsThe 15th edition of the Pusan (now Busan) International Film Festival, the largest film festival in Asia, was a transitional year in many senses. First, Kim Dong-ho, the long-time founder... -
Movie Review – Leon Dai’s “No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti”
Christopher BournePosted on December 22, 2009 | No CommentsBefore it earned a string of honors at the recent Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards in Taiwan, Leon Dai’s second film “No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti (Can’t Live Without...
