EVERYDAY REALITIES: TONY RAYNS ON NEW TAIWAN CINEMA AND EDWARD YANG features the noted Asian-cinema critic discussing the cinematic movement, its key players and characteristics, and the qualities that distinguish Edward Yang and his work from his contemporaries.
One of the first masterworks of the twenty-first century, Edward Yang’s YI YI is an at once epic and intimate portrait of a year in the life of a Taiwanese family. It is also, as Professor Jeff Smith argues in this edition of Observations on Film Art, a valentine to the transcendent possibilities...