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What's your favorite film by Ming-liang Tsai?

haven't seen any
7 (23.3%)
don't like any
1 (3.3%)
Rebels of the Neon God
4 (13.3%)
Vive L'Amour
0 (0%)
The River
1 (3.3%)
The Hole
5 (16.7%)
What Time Is It There?
2 (6.7%)
The Skywalk Is Gone
0 (0%)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
4 (13.3%)
The Wayward Cloud
4 (13.3%)
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
1 (3.3%)
Visage
0 (0%)
Walker
0 (0%)
Stray Dogs
0 (0%)
Journey to the West
1 (3.3%)
No No Sleep
0 (0%)
Your Face
0 (0%)
Days
0 (0%)

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Tsai, Ming-liang
« on: April 22, 2011, 05:01:50 PM »
1. The Hole
2. What Time Is It There?
3. The Wayward Cloud
4. Visage
5. Goodbye Dragon Inn

6. Journey to the West
7. Days
8. Vive L'amour
9. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
10. The River
11. Stray Dogs
12. Rebels of the Neon God
13. No No Sleep
14. The Skywalk is Gone

16. Walker
17. Sand
18. Walking on Water
19. Wandering
20. Your Face
21. Give Me a Home
22. Madame Butterfly
23. All the Corners of the World
24. Afternoon
25. My Stinking Kid
26. Boys

27. Li-hsiang's Love Lines
28. The Night
29. Fish, Underground
30. Light

31. Xiao Kang



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Re: Tsai, Ming-liang - Director's Best
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2011, 05:23:48 PM »
1. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
2. What Time is it There?
3. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
4. Rebels of the Neon God
5. The River
6. Visage
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Re: Tsai, Ming-liang - Director's Best
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2011, 05:50:29 PM »
Only seen one...

1. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
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Re: Tsai, Ming-liang - Director's Best
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2011, 10:05:38 PM »
I've only seen Rebels of the Neon God, and it was really great.

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Re: Tsai, Ming-liang - Director's Best
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2011, 12:38:47 PM »
1. The Hole
2. What Time is it There
3. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
4. Visage

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Re: Tsai, Ming-liang - Director's Best
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2012, 08:10:09 AM »
Wet. Hole.
Yes.

Updated:
1. The Hole
2. Vive L'amour
3. Goodbye Dragon Inn
4. The Wayward Cloud
5. What Time is it There?
6. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
7. Visage

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Re: Tsai, Ming-liang - Director's Best
« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2012, 08:13:35 AM »
1. The Wayward Cloud
2. What Time Is It There
3. Vive L'amour
4. I Don't Want To Sleep Alone
5. Rebels of a Neon God
6. Visage
7. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
8. The Skywalk is Gone

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Re: Tsai, Ming-liang - Director's Best
« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2012, 11:45:36 AM »

Walker Tsai Ming-liang, 2012

This 20-something minute short is made up of a series of long takes of Lee Kang-sheng (dressed up as some kind of monk) walking extremely slowly. Tsai will set up a long shot and you'll get a bunch of bustling people just making their way across the frame, and then Lee spends a crazy amount of time lifting up each foot and then placing it down, making slow progress. Some shots are all about a bunch of people standing by and watching him do this (this seeming relic in a sea of modernity/fastness). It's kinda amusing, but I guess I don't really get it or maybe there's not much to "get." That said, that one shot with this young idol looking fella on a billboard juxtaposed with Lee's seeming decrepit-like walking made me lol. So that's good.

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Re: Tsai, Ming-liang - Director's Best
« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2012, 01:28:28 PM »
You bastard, where did you find it?  I've been keeping my eyes open.

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Re: Tsai, Ming-liang - Director's Best
« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2012, 01:31:08 PM »
Right, should've mentioned that. It's streaming here. Legally.