#879: YANG, Edward: Taipei Story (1985)
YANG, Edward (Taiwan)
Taipei Story (1985)
Spine #879
Blu-ray
The Booklet
Sixty-four page booklet featuring A Shared Mission, a foreward by Abbey Lustgarten, and Modern Planning, an essay by Andrew Chan on Taipei Story.
Commentary
None.
Introduction
By World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese.
Conversation
Between filmmakers Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Wong on Taipei Story, which Hou cowrote and acted in.
Extras Rating (0-40):
Taipei Story (1985)
Spine #879
Blu-ray
Edward Yang's second feature is a mournful anatomy of a city caught between the past and the present. Made in collaboration with Yang's fellow New Taiwan Cinema master Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taipei Story chronicles the growing estrangement between a washed-up baseball player (Hou, in a rare on-screen performance) working in his family's textile business and his girlfriend (Tsai Chin), who clings to the upward mobility of her career in property development. As the couple's dreams of marriage and emigration begin to unravel, Yang's gaze illuminates the precariousness of domestic life and the desperation of Taiwan's globalized modernity.
119 minutes
Color
Monaural
In Mandarin and Hokkien
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Monaural
In Mandarin and Hokkien
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2017
Director/Writers
Screenplay by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Chu Tien-wen, and Edward Yang.
Yang was 38 when he directed Taipei Story.
Other Yang films in the Collection:
#804: A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
#339: Yi Yi (2000)
The Film
Other Yang films in the Collection:
#804: A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
#339: Yi Yi (2000)
The Film
A
Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Sixty-four page booklet featuring A Shared Mission, a foreward by Abbey Lustgarten, and Modern Planning, an essay by Andrew Chan on Taipei Story.
Commentary
None.
Introduction
By World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese.
Conversation
Between filmmakers Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Wong on Taipei Story, which Hou cowrote and acted in.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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