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...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 comedy, but the payoffs shrivel beneath the lumbering weight of the setups. The film...
...frozen are his actors, who sit or stand or lie with that familiar art-house look of longing in their eyes, which often resembles nothing so much as a slight case of constipation. Were it not for the constant lighting of cigarettes and the smoke wreaths wafting through the frame, Tsai's scenes would be hard to distinguish from photographs...
...mound in the frame, Rhode Island pitcher Lee-Anne Stanovich was replaced by freshman Katie Halcomb, who then allowed five runs before finally striking out Montijo to get out of the inning...
...added its final run in the bottom of that frame. Sarah Kellner pinch ran for Jacqui Goodchild, who had reached base on an error. She crossed the plate on a single from Obrest...
Right now, that mark is in danger. On Sunday, shortstop Zak Farkes stepped up to the plate and connected. The No. 2 hitter, a generously-listed 5’11, 195-lb. sophomore from Boston, once again packed a punch that belied his frame...