| Description |
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital rdatr |
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optical rdarm |
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surround rdacpc |
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stereo rdacpc |
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5.1 rdaspc |
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2.0 rdaspc |
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video file rdaft |
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Blu-ray |
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region A rdare |
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Motion pictures lcgft |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 2003. |
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Title from container. |
| System Details |
Blu-ray, region A, wide screen; 5.1 surround and 2.0 stereo ; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Language |
Mandarin dialogue; English subtitles. |
| Cast |
Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, Mitamura Kiyonobu, Miao Tien, Shih Chun. |
| Summary |
Like the Royal Theater in The Last Picture Show and the title movie house in Cinema Paradiso, the Fu-Ho is shutting down for good. The Fu-Ho's valedictory screening is King Hu's 1967 wuxia epic Dragon Inn, playing to a motley smattering of spectators. The standard grievances persist patrons snack noisily and remove their shoes, treating this temple of cinema like their living room. The sense that moviegoing as a communal experience is slipping away takes on a powerful and painful resonance. Yet Tsai Ming-liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn is too multifaceted to collapse into a simple valentine to the age of pre-VOD cinephilia. A minimalist where King Hu was a maximalist, preferring long, static shots and sparse use of dialogue, Tsai rises to the narrative challenges he sets for himself and offers the slyest, most delicate of character arcs (the manager, a woman with an iron brace on her leg, embarks on a torturous odyssey to deliver food to the projectionist, played by Lee Kang-sheng). By the time the possibility arises that the theater is haunted, we've already identified it as a space outside of time indeed, two stars of Hu's original opus, Miao Tien and Shih Chun, watch their younger selves with tears in their eyes, past and present commingling harmoniously and poignantly. |
| Subject |
Motion picture theaters -- Taiwan -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Loneliness -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Tourists -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Communication -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Japanese drama -- China -- Videodiscs.
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Taiwan -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Comedy films.
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Gay films.
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Chinese language materials.
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Foreign films, Chinese.
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Blu-ray discs.
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| Added Author |
Cai, Mingliang, 1957- film director.
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Li, Kangsheng, 1968- actor.
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Chen, Xiangqi (Actress), actor.
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Mitamura, Kiyonobu, actor.
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Miao, Tian, 1925-2005, actor.
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Metrograph Pictures, publisher.
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| Added Title |
Bu san |
| Standard No. |
738329265076 |
| Music No. |
K26507 Kino Lorber |
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