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...crowd, few people would recognize the stout and cheerful-looking Tsai Ming Liang as one of Taiwan’s premier directors. Tsai appeared Tuesday night at the Harvard Film Archive, the second time in two years, in his signature casual style and black-rimmed glasses, initiating the screening with a warning: “Be patient with this...
...those familiar with Tsai, this is not a surprising statement. From his 1992 debut, Rebels of the Neon God, to later films like the Hole (1998) and What Time Is it There? (2001), Tsai’s lens focuses on the minutiae of everyday urban life, from walking to eating to urinating, with fixed shots that can last excruciatingly for minutes on a single motion...
...nostalgia for the old theatre, but that’s on a superficial level,” says Tsai of the scene. He suggests that it’s more nostalgia for a different era—a time when grandfathers took their grandchildren to the movies, when people went to the same theatre, when movie theatres would be packed full, as they were in the Taiwan of Tsai’s college years...
...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...