Overview of articles
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Old Woman
The old woman has had enough. She is lonely and has nothing to live for. Then suddenly there is a baby on the doorstep.Published on: -
Desolate Silence
No one understood why two successful female students committed suicide in an anonymous hotel room in Taipei. The film provides a picture of today’s TaPublished on: -
Company of Mushrooms
Four friends meet up in a pizza restaurant. They didn’t come for the pizzas. And they don’t really seem to be friends. Maybe they were…Published on: -
Reflections
Debut film by Taiwanese talent, Yao Hung-i, the former assistant director to Hou Hsiao-hsien. That the influence of the great teacher is recognisablePublished on: -
Three Times
Three love stories in three different eras (1966, 1911 and 2005) in Hou’s characteristic, philosophical and aesthetic style. The different couples arePublished on: -
Blue Cha Cha
Subtly told, sad story about a young attractive woman who has to find a place in life after jail. Working in a bar is no…Published on: -
Taiwan Black Movies
A prickling documentary that brings back to life a Taiwanese film genre that was given up for dead. In a time of strict political censorship,…Published on: -
A Man and a Woman
Chinese are just like ordinary people. With the economic progress, other things become important, yet almost en passant. A man and a woman come to…Published on: -
Walking on the Wild Side
Autobiographically tinted film about the hopelessness of life in a Chinese mining town where the advance of the market economy leads to depressing lawPublished on: -
The Fatality
A horror film with a pleasantly complex story. A Thai-Taiwanese co-production as a result of which the ghosts and living dead come from two worlds.…Published on: