2020
Search results
3 days ago · 1 Watch the documentary HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-hsien (1997) for Hou’s love of karaoke. 2 Located at the intersection between Roosevelt Road and Heping East Road, Xi Rang was founded by Doze Niu, Jack Kao, Lin Ju, and others, many of whom have been associated with Hou Hsiao-hsien (Jack Kao 高捷 played Xiao-fang in Daughter of the Nile , and Lin Ju 林鉅 was the art designer of the film).
4 days ago · The turning point in his career came when Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien asked him to appear in A City of Sadness (1989).
5 days ago · Review of Daughter of the Nile / 尼羅河女兒, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien I’ve known about Hou’s work ever since I was an undergraduate freshman, as I took Chinese Cinema with a professor who specialized in Taiwan and Chinese literature.
4 days ago · 6. Dust in the Wind (1986) Hou Hsiao-Hsien is widely considered one of the three pioneers of the New Taiwanese Cinema, a movement that infused a new style of filmmaking in Asian cinema that reflected the many political undercurrents that transpired in that era.
1 day ago · Many Asian filmmakers — Wong Kar-wai, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Takashi Miike etc. — often had characters conversing in multiple dialects, or sometimes multiple languages, within a single film. Though subtitles almost never reflected this, the choices were never arbitrary.
1 day ago · Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien received the lifetime achievement award. Although the coronavirus pandemic has closed cinemas around the world, actors, directors and others managed to walk the red carpet ahead of the ceremony in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan.
4 days ago · The first Chinese feature in many years to be shot on celluloid, the film looks very much like an actual artifact of the mid-’90s. Exhibiting the same muted palette and soft lens one sees in early Hou Hsiao-hsien or Jia Zhang-ke films, River exhibits a physicality that feels genuinely
