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Taipei Story. Yang followed with his second feature film, Taipei Story (1985), where he cast fellow auteur Hou Hsiao-hsien as the lead, a former Little-League baseball star named Lung trying to find his way in Taipei.
Born on November 6, 1947 in Shanghai, China, Edward Yang has become one of the most talented international filmmakers of his generation. Along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming-Liang, Yang ranks among the leading artists of the Taiwanese New Wave, and one of the world's most brilliant auteurs.
Apr 9, 2022 · Ranking the catalogue of one of the most consistent filmmakers ever feels like a pointless endeavor, a disservice to such a brilliant output of films. Edward Yang never made a bad movie, leaving us with seven features that all stand as valuable filmmaking of its own.
Nov 17, 2021 · Considered by critics as one of the greatest directors of all time, Edward Yang was a pioneer of Taiwan’s New Wave movement. Here are four films you can watch now. November 17, 2021. Text James Balmont.
Jan 11, 2024 · Edward Yang’s States of Flux. His dark comedies and family dramas of life in late-20th-century Taiwan depict a generation’s crisis, confronting the forces of finance and globalization....
Jul 19, 2023 · All the above are scenes and characters from the films of Edward Yang, a Taiwanese director of great breadth and intimacy who completed just eight-and-a-quarter works before dying of cancer...
Dec 21, 2023 · An ego-tripping playwright and a conniving lawyer married to an aspiring actress further complicate an entangled web of seduction and backstabbing.
Nov 6, 2021 · Including masterpieces like Taipei Story, A Brighter Summer Day and Yi Yi, these are six definitive films by Taiwanese New Wave pioneer Edward Yang.
Jul 2, 2007 · Edward Yang, a leading figure in the New Taiwan cinema movement of the 1980s who was best known for “Yi Yi,” about one family’s life together (and apart) in Taipei, died Friday in Beverly ...
Feb 15, 2019 · Edward Yang was one of the greatest directors of the late 20th century — a filmmaker who, along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming-liang, spearheaded the first movement of the Taiwanese New Wave and helped put his country on the map as one of the world’s foremost national cinemas.
