Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003)
On the last night before the old movie theater is shut down, a Japanese youth, despite the hard rain, comes running into the theater. The theater seems empty, void of life; yet there are some people, and some may not be people... (Wellspring Media)
Country: Taiwan
Directed By: Ming-liang Tsai
Written By: Ming-liang Tsai
Starring: Chun Shih, Chao-jung Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Tien Miao, Kuei-Mei Yang, Kiyonobu Mitamura
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Goodbye Dragon Inn belongs to 32 collections
1. Features under 91 minutes (public: moderated by epiphany - 43 stars)
2. 21st Century Top 250 (public: moderated by dardan - 42 stars)
3. Jonathan Rosenbaum's Top 1000 Movies (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 35 stars)
4. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2014 revision) (public: moderated by Jehan - 27 stars)
5. Movies about movies (public: moderated by Pickpocket - 25 stars)
6. They Shoot Pictures' Recommended Viewing (public: moderated by Cinephile - 17 stars)
7. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2017 revision) (public: moderated by iconogassed - 17 stars)
8. Non-verbal (public: moderated by djross - 13 stars)
9. Doubling The Canon (public - 13 stars)
10. FIPRESCI Prize (public: moderated by paulofilmo - 11 stars)
11. The Best of the Decade: An Alternative View (public - 7 stars)
12. TSPDT 21st Century's Top 250 Most Acclaimed Films (2010) (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 6 stars)
13. TSPDT 21st Century's Top 250 Most Acclaimed Films (2012) (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 6 stars)
14. Doubling The Canon (2010 update) (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 5 stars)
15. Slant Magazine's Best of the Aughts (public: moderated by theficionado - 4 stars)
16. TSPDT 21st Century's Top 250 Most Acclaimed Films (2011) (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 2 stars)
17. Doubling the Canon (2011 update) (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 1 star)
18. A Year of Essential Cinema (public: moderated by Ibetolis1 - 1 star)
19. Least Favorite Film of Every Criticker Member (public - 1 star)
20. They Shoot Pics (TSPDT) 2014 new additions (public: moderated by avgcrtckr - 1 star)
21. A2P CINEMA'S 100 FILMS OF THE AUGHTS (public: moderated by sonique)
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| Jan 11 |  |
Alex Watkins | 5 91% |
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A film that exists in the quiet corners of in-between, and raises mundanity to the level of magical realism, yet with a perverse humor that seems entirely Tsai's own. His patient observation of life's liminal spaces and moments is nostalgic but never somber or precious. Goodbye Dragon Inn, plays as much as anything, as a celebration of what once was.
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| Jan 11 | KamilPPP | 70 36% |
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| Jan 02 | colmener | 60 28% |
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sonya semyon | 93 83% |
| Dec 11, 2019 | spwnofstan | 68 43% |
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| Dec 10, 2019 | sachinho | 70 27% |
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| Nov 26, 2019 | flipperrbm | 7 74% |
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Dionysoss | 90 93% |
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feyzamisty | 96 61% |
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SushiBrother | 60 31% |
| Oct 16, 2019 | fuckRYM | 53 58% |
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guvolefou | 80 75% |
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2. Başka Sinema Ayvalık Film Festivali.
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| Oct 03, 2019 |  |
slowdance3 | 72 61% |
| Sep 11, 2019 |  |
FancyMike | 4 58% |
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damn i love the movies
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| Aug 27, 2019 | blackendblue | 80 82% |
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basaksug | 65 0% |
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mrkacmaz | 69 11% |
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vivel.amour | 92 59% |
| May 01, 2019 | mahvolus | 75 83% |
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lucius | 60 54% |
| Mar 17, 2019 | Krafty | 95 92% |
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| Mar 05, 2019 | mate_cosido | 60 15% |
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Daisoujou | 95 90% |
| Feb 18, 2019 |  |
lineuphere | 98 98% |
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It's probably not totally clear via the English subtitles that this is the last movie that will play the cinema and that Tien Miao (the old man with the little boy) and Chuh Shih (the rapt man sitting alone) were watching themselves in "Dragon Inn" the whole time.
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| Feb 04, 2019 |  |
punpun | 80 82% |
| Feb 02, 2019 | trevor1992 | 99 80% |
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Ericmss | 80 65% |
| Dec 12, 2018 |  |
peyrin | 55 24% |
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Very fascinating conceptually but admittedly pretty tough to sit through - I love lingering shots as much as the next person, but I'm pretty sure this was just 80 minutes of lingering shots chained together.
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| Dec 11, 2018 |  |
karatoprak | 77 72% |
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i think tsai put that crippled woman and the way she cannot walk during the whole film into the story because as cinema is dying, when you watch that woman you are dying inside slowly with it too..
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| Dec 01, 2018 |  |
Dennis Li | 5 99% |
| Nov 26, 2018 | dracular | 55 37% |
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| Aug 28, 2017 |  |
Yiannos | 80 90% |
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As a bittersweet meditation on the death of cinema as a communal experience, G.D.I achieves real resonance because the decline in participation mirrors the wider fragmentation of society as a whole. While there are loose narrative threads involving missed personal connections, it's the cinema itself that captivates, and Tsai brings this inanimate space to life via low key lighting and ambient sound to create a ghostly atmosphere that is evocative and rich and suffused with melancholy and loss.
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| Aug 25, 2017 |  |
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Claudio | 90 96% |
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Gnalkthere | 82 62% |
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It's like the coda of a musical piece but the final lingering note is the whole film.
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| Apr 27, 2017 | douns | 80 67% |
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| Apr 23, 2017 |  |
Actionberg | 65 40% |
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I don't think I got it but it's hard to complain when it looks nice and runs so short.
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| Apr 19, 2017 | Andras | 90 80% |
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| Apr 10, 2017 | Philosofem | 79 71% |
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randori | 60 34% |
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orayi yikip 4 tane cep sinemasi yapmak gecti film boyunca zihnimden. innlerine girecegiz innlerine
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| Aug 08, 2016 |  |
igormachete | 80 66% |
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Soothing and somehow enjoyable.
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| Aug 05, 2016 | creosote | 8 82% |
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| Jul 29, 2016 |  |
themadelf66 | 65 27% |
| Jul 20, 2016 |  |
Nathan S | 4 76% |
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A lament for things past and missed connections, reflected upon with utmost composure, and yet in its quiet solemnity there is a good deal of humor. For me it is neither difficult nor strained, but completely disarming.
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Hyperion+ | 7 99% |
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wetwillies | 90 77% |
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| Apr 07, 2016 | stnkbr | 79 79% |
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| Mar 30, 2016 |  |
P u l p | 80 85% |
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Cinema is dead.
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| Feb 21, 2016 |  |
FrancoZero | 17 91% |
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Star Rating: ★★★★1/2
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| Feb 18, 2016 | pvtKoen | 70 38% |
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| Feb 11, 2016 | Ildorio10 | 70 33% |
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| Dec 06, 2015 | sinemon | 90 53% |
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r/TrueFilm | 80 55% |
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Who are these people? What thoughts are going through their minds? Are they ghosts, haunting the cinema after its death? "No-one goes to the cinema anymore" is one of the few lines in the film, and it is mentioned that ghosts haunt this place. It's a mysterious and odd film, perhaps even haunting, and the way the showing of Dragon Inn occasionally affects the patrons serves as an effective reminder on the power of cinema.
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| Jan 15, 2013 |  |
parannoyed | 88 35% |
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avgcrtckr | 67 82% |
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| Sep 11, 2011 | Jazzaloha | 80 92% |
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Where *Tampopo* is about food and an aspiring ramen shop owner, *Goodbye Dragon Inn*, seems to be about movie theaters and movies; 2) the love between a ticket lady and projectionist; 3) "cruising" for homosexual contact in movie theaters (the filmmaker's personal memories?). Like the *Tampopo* the film has little humorous situations in a movie theaters. I really enjoyed the visual aspects and minimalist approach to the "romantic" relationship, too. (Warning: the film is slow at times.)
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| Aug 15, 2011 |  |
pinkx | 10 33% |
| Aug 07, 2011 | jonnykungfu | 65 43% |
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Jacques Tati in a coma.
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| Aug 04, 2011 |  |
Meta Critic | 82 93% |
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Monster | 85 66% |
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erayyildiz | 81 76% |
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slassy | 20 1% |
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Watched this in my college film class...I had never seen so many sleeping students in one room. It was like Jonestown, the morning after.
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| May 22, 2011 |  |
rant1229 | 3 30% |
| May 11, 2011 | hellin | 10 81% |
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CHOICECOD | 55 11% |
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julianaesk | 65 18% |
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ericdupont | 75 58% |
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Carlos | 83 75% |
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SlantMag | 30 78% |
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"Tsai's elegy to a now-departed Taipei theater is also a beautiful love poem to the movies." - Ed Gonzalez
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