Hsiao-Hsien Hou

One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a "star" for the first time in Man Lim-chung's directorial debut. A forerunner of the New Wave, Hui's tumultuous, forty-year career is an unequivocal testimony to her unyielding dedication to filmmaking, and her expedition into the metamorphic city. This biopic probes into the acclaimed director's idiosyncratic world, where we witness her rashness and goofiness, as well as her humanistic concerns for the everyday nobodies which mak

A story of a high school boy as he processes the loss of his first love and learns to experience high school over again. (imdb)

A personal account of Chinese film history by Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan, who examines in particular issues of gender and sexuality. Includes interviews with a number of important filmmakers as well as the director's mother; Kwan also uses this film publicly to address his own sexual identity. (BFI)

A forty-minute tribute to the director from 1993, featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki Kaurismäki, Stanley Kwan, Paul Schrader, and Wim Wenders.

This film chronicles the slow, mournful disintegration of a long-term relationship between Chin, a modern, ambitious woman who embraces Taipei's rapidly changing, Westernized future, and her childhood sweetheart, Lung, a former baseball player clinging to the nostalgia and traditions of the past. As Chin faces a corporate dead-end and Lung is constantly burdened by old debts and a reluctant view of his former glory, their differing visions for marriage and potential emigration to America cause a growing emotional rift. Their profound sense of alienation and inability to connect becomes a mirror reflecting the spiritual and cultural void gripping a rapidly modernizing and globalizing 1980s Taipei.