A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)

Along with Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien was the leading figure of a new wave of…

Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch (Wong Jing & Jason Kwan, 2019)

Mystery (Lou Ye, 2012)

The first film Lou Ye was able to make in China following a five-year filmmaking ban he received for submitting his…

Savage (Cui Siwei, 2019)

Cui Siwei’s directorial debut is not, unfortunately, a remake of the classic blaxploitation film Savage (tagline…

Suzhou River (Lou Ye, 2000)

2000 was a watershed year in Chinese-language cinema.¹⁠ The year of milestones like Crouching Tiger, Hidden…

Suburban Birds (Qiu Sheng, 2018)

The Northwest Film Forum’s commitment to rethinking the movie release calendar continues this week…

Legend of the Demon Cat (Chen Kaige, 2019)

Chen Kaige’s Legend of the Demon Cat is not what you’d expect it to be. Well, at…

Taylor Wong Capsule Reviews

Buddha’s Palm — July 20, 2019