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...From the man who takes the motion out of motion pictures comes his latest movie, Goodbye, Dragon Inn. Tsai opens this radical experiment in minimalist extremes in the middle of a ferocious rainstorm; the night before it is scheduled to be closed, a grand old Taipei theater is showing the landmark 1966 kung fu film Dragon Inn to a scattered handful of ghostlike characters, including a young Japanese tourist (Mitamura Kiyonobu) apparently cruising for gay men. The crippled, young ticket taker (Chen Shiang-chyi) stalks the venue in search of the mysterious projectionist (Lee Kang-sheng)?perhaps...
...result, however, is a pretty strong argument for steering clear of the local movie house. Goodbye, Dragon Inn is unbearably inert. It's not so much that Tsai has neglected to craft a good story and characters; that's always been his style. What Goodbye lacks is exactly what Tsai's far superior 2001 film What Time Is It There? had in every frame: authentic feeling. Instead of the emotion that suffused the earlier movie?however artfully repressed?in Goodbye we get minutes-long still shots of an empty theater. There are occasional flashes of Tsai's skill for silent...
...cruises for chicken; the other takes it General Tso-style. Whether you’re into shrimp balls or shaved balls, entering the dragon requires imperial tastes,” the column’s introduction stated...
...Daggers, Lau appears alongside a number of other formidable stars, including the waifish Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and one of the region's hottest properties, Taiwanese-Japanese heartthrob Takeshi Kaneshiro (Turn Left, Turn Right). But Lau, one of four Hong Kong entertainers known as the "heavenly Kings," has been around the longest and easily commands the most attention in Asia. During shooting at Tea Mountain in Chongqing in January, scores of fans from the nearby town assembled outside the lobby of the mountainside hotel. "They're waiting for Wah-Jai," said a blushing girl behind the front desk...
...11th round, a humbled Barrera had been bludgeoned into submission, with Pacquiao landing 150 more power punches than the Mexican. The referee stopped the fight, and Pacquiao raised his arms, crying and smiling as his cornermen draped the Philippine flag around the shoulders of the featherweight dragon slayer. "At least they're finally beginning to pronounce his name right," says Rod Nazario, Pacquiao's longtime business manager...