Word: tsai
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...frame. As Hsaio-kang watches Truffaut, the TV set is, again, placed at bottom right. Chen and Cecilia Yip's heads line up diagonally on a pillow before they kiss. Even the chairs in Paris' Luxembourg Gardens have armrests that rise at 45 degrees from the slumping seats. Throughout, Tsai makes the eye follow as if looking at a painting, seldom giving the viewer the luxury of a single focal point...
Silence can be deafening in Tsai Ming-liang's films. The award-winning Taiwanese director will often have a character simply walk through a park, with no dialogue at all. His movies don't explain, they make the audience work for meaning. Though critics sometimes accuse him of pointing a camera at nothing, he clearly knows how to create something from the void. What Time Is It There?, his seventh film, is a visual feast on love, death and loneliness...
...Tsai holds the patent on slow opening scenes, and this one doesn't disappoint. We see a man (Miao Tien) at a kitchen table doing nothing for a full minute. Then he gets up, goes outside and returns to his nothingness at the table. Four minutes. And that's the last we see of him; he dies, off camera, soon after. We're then introduced to his son, Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-sheng), who sells watches in Taipei. Days after his father's death a young woman, Shiang-chyi (Chen Shiang-chyi), buys a dual-time watch from him before...
...Chinese man who fishes out the case with an umbrella, stands it by the pond and walks away. Is this a case full of Hsiao-kang's fantasies, or a wake-up call to Shiang-chyi to pack her bags and return to Taipei? As patient as a century, Tsai's canvas in What Time deserves its own gallery...
...Deadline for the first applications for .name is Nov. 22. GNR plans to generate additional revenue by transforming .name addresses into multipurpose digital identities that can also serve as cell phone numbers and even electronic credit cards. Tsai plans to leverage his background in finance and Internet start-ups to help GNR: he previously worked in asset management and in fixed-income trading and at Urbanfetch, the now defunct U.S. Internet convenience store...