Word: tsai
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...Tsai speaks of himself as a lucky member of the late ’70s generation in Taiwan, where he attended the Chinese Cultural University after growing up in Malaysia. Unlike his peers who crammed for the national scholastic exams, and to the dismay of his parents, Tsai took the idiosyncratic path of filmmaking when the art was just budding in Taiwan...
...were lucky,” the director says seriously in the question-and-answer session following the screening. “There was no war, and there was a stable economy.” It was in the open cultural atmosphere at the time that Tsai was first exposed to the European art-films of the Nouvelle Vague and the New German Cinema, to the great auteurs Robert Bresson, Francois Truffaut and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who would heavily influence his later film-making...
Giuliana Bruno, professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard, calls Tsai an “architect of time…a meticulous and rigorous filmmaker who takes his time...
...Tsai says that he was inspired to film Goodbye by the theatre itself. “It spoke to me,” Tsai says. “It said, ‘I’m closing, tell my story.’” And the crew did nothing to alter the physical space of the theatre except taking down a wall. There is a minute-long shot of the empty theatre at the end of film, when the few members of the audience had filed out, with only the endless blue rows of seats...
...place is a character,” Tsai says. “[The audience] is clear of its presence. The actors play supporting roles...