Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Bu san)

*me reading the summary of the film*: “oh how could I not love this?!?!” *me while watching the film*: “oh that’s how...” As I was watching Goodbye, Dragon Inn on a completely legal and morally upstanding website, I was suddenly informed via a small pop up that there was…

PopcornIdeology

Sixty in September: 22/60 Cinema of my dreams. About looking. At people. At movies. At people in movies. At people through movies. At yourself. About remembering. Remembering movies. Remembering people. Remembering yourself. Reaching out and standing…

clare

Captures the paradox of theatrical viewing, a communal isolationist experience. It's not until 45 minutes through an 80-minute picture that someone speaks, but the line, informing a Japanese tourist lightly cruising throughout that the theater is haunted, is unnecessary…

Jake Cole

Starting the year by watching a film theatre cry sounded like a good idea. As wonderful today as it was in 2003. Miao Tien watching himself will always make me choke up a little bit along with him. This has the paradox of remaining Tsai's most accesible film (I will always…

Filipe Furtado

effectively captures the very annoying feeling of being in an empty theater by yourself and some random guy decides to sit right next to you when there are dozens of seats available in other places -- how the cinema forces us out of our comfort zone and into a semi-common…

comrade_yui

90/100 Stasis in motion; literal pictures flying by, at 24 frames per second, and portraying lonely, static spaces. Ghostly figures wander in for connection and yearning love. Other individuals simply watch. The moving image was made gigantic - larger than life, both…

SilentDawn

Goodbye, Dragon Inn is the kind of movie experience viewers have to submit themselves to. It's not your usual edge-of-the-seat fare where you expect all sorts of dramatic twists and turns. So it's up to the viewers to decide whether they'll give in to the uniform pacing…

Keaton B

Tsai is a magician because he'll give you a static shot of the empty theatre that goes on for two, three, five, I dunno, a hundred minutes, nothing happening, just an empty theatre, and he keeps you riveted. Of course there is the suspense of how long, exactly, he's going…

Will Sloan

“no one goes to the movies anymore, and no one remembers us anymore.”

Flynn