Film
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
- 4:15PM
Director Tsai Ming-liang, one of the most celebrated “Second New Wave” directors in Tawainese cinematic history, creates an emotional, haunting, and surprisingly humorous love letter to cinephilia. In Taipei, the cavernous movie theater Fu-Ho is closing—but not without one final showing of the 1966 wuxia film, Dragon Inn. Featuring long shots and sparse dialogue, Tsai honestly and expertly captures the popcorn-munching patrons, movie manager with a limp, and the late-comer searching for a hookup, drawing the audience deeper and deeper into an otherworldly space.
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