Prior to his celebrated Yi yi (2000), Taiwan’s Edward Yang made Guling jie shaonian sha ren shijian, which suggests a cross between Hou Hsiao-hsien’s cinema and West Side Story. Rival gangs of youth, fighting over turf in the early sixties, represent those who already lived in Taiwan and those who fled there from the mainland […]
Daily Archives: July 28, 2007
Swing Time is the finest of the Astaire-Rogers musicals. Like numerous other ’30s Hollywood films, it provides commentary on the Depression. Money, for instance, is a motif. Lucky, a dancer, makes a bet that causes him to miss the appointed time of his wedding. Lucky’s motivation isn’t money; he can’t resist the sport. But money […]
Dennis Grunes 