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)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Ming-liang Tsai
Written By: Ming-liang Tsai
Starring: Kang-sheng Lee, Tien Miao, Kuei-Mei Yang, Shiang-chyi Chen, Chun Shih, Chao-jung Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura
AKA: Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Country: Taiwan
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Goodbye Dragon Inn belongs to 32 collections
1. Features under 91 minutes (public: moderated by epiphany - 55 stars)
2. 21st Century Top 250 (public: moderated by dardan - 49 stars)
3. Jonathan Rosenbaum's Top 1000 Movies (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 37 stars)
4. Movies about movies (public: moderated by Pickpocket - 30 stars)
5. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2014 revision) (public: moderated by Jehan - 27 stars)
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7. They Shoot Pictures' Recommended Viewing (public: moderated by Cinephile - 18 stars)
8. Non-verbal (public: moderated by djross - 15 stars)
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10. FIPRESCI Prize (public: moderated by paulofilmo - 12 stars)
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12. TSPDT 21st Century's Top 250 Most Acclaimed Films (2010) (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 6 stars)
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14. Doubling The Canon (2010 update) (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 5 stars)
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I work in a movie theatre and lemme tell you the only part of this that I could relate to my experience is that there’s always a guest who gets annoyed by everything and obviously isn’t going to get laid that night
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Oct 13, 2021 | Cmone Weil | 8 85% |
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What the hell movie. How is nothing happening very slowly this poignant? Nothing keeps on happening until nothing stops happening and then nothing ends. There's a lot of high-level conceptual shit going on here but none of that really accounts for the lingering evocative punch (of nothing happening). Lingering unfulfillment, lingering gaze, lingering longing, lingering stream of piss. Poetry is a bitch. This movie haunted my brain. Would not recommend to anyone.
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Aug 25, 2020 | chengming | 40 11% |
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Excruciatingly slow, for little payoff. Some nice frames, but otherwise didn't take anything from it. Guess Tsai Ming-liang doesn't work for me without musical interludes... :/
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Aug 14, 2020 | posetitel | 50 13% |
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Feb 08, 2020 | Edueccì | 70 68% |
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Jan 26, 2020 | CineLounge | 73 77% |
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Alex Watkins | 5 91% |
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, 2020 | KamilPPP | 70 35% |
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2. Başka Sinema Ayvalık Film Festivali.
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slowdance3 | 72 61% |
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FancyMike | 5 89% |
damn i love the movies
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Mar 05, 2019 | mate_cosido | 60 15% |
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lineuphere | 96 99% |
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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karatoprak | 77 72% |
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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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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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 72% |
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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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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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Cinema is dead.
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Star Rating: ★★★★1/2
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