Scribbles and Ramblings

Wonders in the Dark is having a poll to determine the best 15 films from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It is tough to narrow down just 15 fi...

  "Did you like the movie?" "A bit too serious". "You prefer comedies?" "Not really. But it didn't...

Stray Dogs (2013, Taiwan/France, Tsai Ming-liang) Previously, I had seen 8/9 of Tsai Ming-Liang’s features but none of them in a cine...

In last weekend's Globe and Mail , Rick Groen raised an interesting point about the powerful collaborations between actors and director...

Shifting location from Taipei to Kuala Lumpur: Tsai Ming-liang returns to his birth country Malaysia to make his first feature outside of ...

When I came across my first film by Tsai Ming-liang What Time is it there? , it took me a while to let all the details sink in. It was a bea...

One Country, 3 directors, 6 movies! A diverse collection ranging from the colorful past to the murky present!!! Hou Hsiao-hsien Until a ...