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"Goodbye, Dragon Inn"
2004
Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang

With his minimalist masterpiece What Time is it There?, Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang paid implicit tribute to Antonioni's bleak modernism and Harold Lloyd's slapstick silents. In Goodbye Dragon Inn - an even sparser and more rigorously composed film - Ming-Liang fashions an explicit homage to the world of movies. Set in a crumbling Taipei movie palace during a screening of the 1968 martial arts classic Dragon Inn, Ming-Liang's camera follows a clubfooted theatre manager, a lonely Japanese moviegoer, and other characters to evoke a poetic valentine to a dying cinematic age. "A movie of elegant understatement and considerable formal intelligence" (J. Hoberman, Village Voice). Mandarin and Taiwanese with English subtitles. 83 minutes.

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