Tsai Ming-liang

[domino harvey]

Nice, congrats!

[Stefan Andersson]

Tsai Ming-liang on The Hole and the shorter TV version:
https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/this ... ming-liang
https://www.indiewire.com/features/inte ... 235204611/

The River, restored, DCP, upcoming French re-release:
https://www.splendor-films.com/films/20 ... 3-13-45-49

Vive l´amour, restored, DCP, upcoming French re-release:
https://www.splendor-films.com/films/vive-lamour

[senseabove]

Has anyone seen the new print of The Hole? Is it some revelatory improvement over the previously circulating print?

[beamish14]

Has anyone seen the new print of The Hole? Is it some revelatory improvement over the previously circulating print?

I have not seen UCLA’s 1998 release print, but this new one looks beautiful to my eyes. Color timing seems authentic and no significant defects of any kind

[senseabove]

I believe the one I've seen twice previously (in LA and Berkeley on Tsai's last two US tours) was Big World's, not UCLA's...

[Lowry_Sam]

Well you can check it out next Saturday @ BAMPFA.

[hearthesilence]

Apparently he has a new coffee shop in Taipei (or rather in the hills about half an hour outside of Taipei).

(Also LOL at the English and French posters for The Wayward Cloud / La Saveur de la pastèque.)

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

This is apparently next door to his previous coffee shop, which also produced its own beans but shut down a few months ago after co-founder Lu Yi-ching called it quits—Lu ran the coffee shop that Tsai regularly patronized when he cast her in Rebels of the Neon God, so I assume she was the expert on coffee production. Its website is still up if you want to gawk at the packaging. Their original location was in the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, which must've had some truly eye-watering rent.