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Aug 7, 2024 · The best directorial debut of the year, India Donaldson’s Good One, is a carefully-observed portrait of both womanhood and fatherhood, capturing the 17-year-old Sam (Lily Collias, in a revelatory breakthrough performance) who embarks on a camping trip in the Catskills with her father (James Le Gros) and his best friend (Danny McCarthy).
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- The Boys from Fengkuei, 1983. On the island fishing settlement of Fengkuei, Taiwan, waves crash against rusted boats on the shore while ramshackle homes crumble into the chipped concrete streets.
- Daughter of the Nile, 1987. The Boys From Fengkuei had incorporated personal experiences from Hou’s youth, while 1985’s The Time To Live and The Time to Die was literally shot in the house the director grew up in.
- Flowers of Shanghai, 1998. “The most elite pleasure quarters in late 19th-century Shanghai lay hidden in the city’s British concession,” begins Hou’s 1998 masterpiece – his first set outside of Taiwan.
- Millennium Mambo, 2001. While Daughter of the Nile was a portrait of a transitional mid-80s Taipei, Millennium Mambo observes the ultra-modern side of the city some 15 years later through the eyes of a woman trapped inside a personal hell.
May 28, 2021 · An intoxicating, time-bending experience bathed in the golden glow of oil lamps and wreathed in an opium haze, this gorgeous period reverie by Hou Hsiao-hsien traces the romantic intrigue, jealousies, and tensions swirling around four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai “flower houses,” where courtesans live confined to a gilded cage ...
Jan 15, 2021 · Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 1998 film "Flowers of Shanghai," which follows the lives of courtesans from four different Qing-era "flower houses," has just been rereleased in a 4k restoration. It is currently playing in virtual theaters across the U.S.
The Criterion Collection and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have confirmed the titles to be released on Blu-ray in June 2021. A scathing early feminist commentary on modern marriage Dorothy Arzner's Merrily We Go to Hell is available on 14 June.
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May 28, 2021 · Let me start by saying that I loved Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Flowers of Shanghai, a masterful exploration of relationships and power in a beautifully shot historical setting, but I had to watch it twice to begin understanding what I was watching.
