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A Glimpse into the Life of a Hong Kong Everyman in the Midst of Protest

·April 1, 2021·4 min read

The short film, Night is Young, directed by Kwok Zune, follows a Hong Kong taxi driver on one night in 2019, sometime during the protests that broke out in reaction to a proposed extradition bill that allowed for the deportation of criminal suspects to China. It was feared that this bill would be deleterious to political freedoms in Hong Kong, with the bill used to deport pro-democracy advocates to China to face charges Read More

A Forgotten Period in Taiwanese History and Its Last Witness

English Film

·March 24, 2021·4 min read

Green Jail is a documentary that chronicles the twilight days of Hashima Yoshiko, the last living Taiwanese resident of Iriomote Island, the second-largest island of Okinawa Prefecture Read More

Zombies in the Taiwanese Legislature?

English Film

·March 18, 2021·4 min read

Get the Hell Out is an absurdist zombie comedy that starts out well enough Read More

Review: Taiwanese Shakespeare Adaptation “As We Like It” Subverts Traditional Theatrical Gender-Bending

English Film

·March 11, 2021·5 min read

With its all-woman cast, Taiwanese movie “As We Like It” critiques the exclusion of women in Shakespearean theatre and asks audiences to consider life beyond a gender binary Read More

Review: Pebbles

English Film

·March 4, 2021·3 min read

Pebbles is an understated and modest film, minimalist in plot—and it is a short one, clocking in at one hour and fifteen minutes. But it is a beautifully shot film and, moreover, a highly effective first outing for director PS Vinothraj Read More

Review: A First Farewell (第一次的離別)

English Film

·March 2, 2021·4 min read

A First Farewell is a remarkable film by first-time director Wang Lina. The film is shot in Wang’s hometown of Shaya, Wang being a Han director that grew up in Xinjiang Read More

Review: The Magician on the Skywalk

English Film

·February 23, 2021·4 min read

The Magician on the Skywalk, a televised adaptation of Wu Ming-yi’s collection of short stories by the same name, premiered to much fanfare earlier in the week Read More

Film Review: Tenet

English Film

·February 16, 2021·18 min read

In Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince, he used a metaphor to describe how a Prince should look at political situations: “For just as those who sketch landscapes place themselves down in the plain to consider the nature of mountains and high places to consider the nature of low places place themselves high atop mountains…” Read More

Transformative Fan Experience, Audience, and Experiences from Your Name Engraved Herein

English Film

·January 14, 2021·18 min read

The second part of a two-part conversation on the critical success of Your Name Engraved Herein! Read More

ㄍㄧㄤ片評論：阿比阿弟尋歌大冒險

Chinese Film

·January 7, 2021·1 min read

有時，我會隨意查看電影時刻表，好知道有哪些電影可觀賞。令我驚訝的是，一部美國邪典電影進入了台灣的電影院。《阿比阿弟尋歌大冒險》是《阿比阿弟大冒險》系列的第三部，其中第一部於 1989 年製作，第二部電影是 1991 年。電影製片人過了將近 30 年的時間製作了第三部電影《阿比阿弟尋歌大冒險》。《阿比阿弟》絕對不是什麼嚴肅電影，但在文化上還算是有其重要性的，美國偉大的導演之一亞歷山大·潘恩也可算是這部電影的影迷，因為在佩恩的電影《選舉》（Election) 中，也能找到非常類似基努·李維（阿弟）的角色。原版的《阿比阿弟》電影也被滾石(Rolling Stone）和爛番茄（Rotten Tomatoes）列為史上前十大經典「ㄍㄧㄤ片」（Stoner Film 譯注：此種片意指適合抽大麻之後看的電影）之一。有趣的是，就一部經典的ㄍㄧㄤ片電影系列來說，因為阿比阿弟角色本身並沒有抽大麻，電影也沒有顯示出任何毒品使用。但是，阿比和阿弟的角色卻是基於抽過大麻後的設定。在前兩部電影中，傻笨但善良的二人穿越時空拯救世界。而時間指導人魯弗斯（Rufus），則是最出色但已逝的美國喜劇演員喬治·卡林（George Carlin）。 Read More

Reflecting on the Critical Success of Your Name Engraved Herein (刻在你心底的名字)

English Film

·December 29, 2020·19 min read

Part one of a two-part conversation on the critical success of Your Name Engraved Herein Read More

Review: Tiong Bahru Social Club

English Film

·December 24, 2020·4 min read

Tiong Bahru Social Club, Tan Bee Thiam’s solo directorial debut, is a satirical comedy that follows a man who leaves his humdrum routine office job to become an “Agent” for a data-driven project aimed at creating the “happiest neighborhood in the world” Read More