Watching “Goodbye Dragon Inn” by director Tsai Ming-liang brought me back to my childhood Saturday afternoons, in big damp cinemas where punters smoked, noisily ate pumpkin seeds and gelatos, cruised and wandered around at any point of the film or searching for back row intimacy. Health & safety regulations and multiplex cinemas weren’t in sight and when big melting holes appeared on the projected celluloid we had to shout to the projectionist to wake him up. The whole “watching a movie” experience was rich, complex and intrinsically related to the physical place.
“Goodbye Dragon Inn” is screening at Taiwan Film Festival UK
It’s a dark and rainy night and the old Fu-Ho Grand Cinema in Taipei is about to close down for good. The film for the last-ever show is King Hu’s 1967 Wuxia masterpiece “Dragon Inn” and the theatre is sold out or, at least, so it looks at first sight…...
“Goodbye Dragon Inn” is screening at Taiwan Film Festival UK
It’s a dark and rainy night and the old Fu-Ho Grand Cinema in Taipei is about to close down for good. The film for the last-ever show is King Hu’s 1967 Wuxia masterpiece “Dragon Inn” and the theatre is sold out or, at least, so it looks at first sight…...
- 3/31/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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