Ming-liang Tsai's - Good Bye, Dragon Inn - Bu san - DVD Review Ming-liang Tsai Good Bye, Dragon Inn Bu san DVD Review Ming-liang Tsai Good Bye, Dragon Inn Bu san DVD Review Ming-liang Tsai Good Bye, Dragon Inn Bu san DVD Review Ming-liang Tsai Good Bye, Dragon Inn Bu san DVD Review Ming-liang Tsai Good Bye, Dragon Inn Bu san DVD Review Ming-liang Tsai Good Bye, Dragon Inn Bu san DVD Review Ming-liang Tsai Good Bye, Dragon Inn Bu san DVD Review Ming-liang Tsai Good Bye, Dragon Inn Bu san DVD Review

Good Bye, Dragon Inn marks a milestone in Tsai Ming-liang’s new frontier of filmmaking: it is both a devoted homage to director King Hu (who passed away in 1997) and a melancholic yet humorous look at the sometimes forsaken state of cinema – and cinemas – today. Tsai begins with Hu’s 1966 masterpiece, Dragon Inn, projecting it as a backdrop for his own story and borrowing much of its dialogue: the film’s words resound, distorted, inside a large theatre in Taipei where it is screened in front of a gradually thinning audience. We seldom see the images from Hu’s action movie, but its sounds fall from the screen – a sort of cinephile’s rap – as a disjointed commentary on the “action” going on in the near-empty theatre.

It rains and a Japanese tourist takes refuge from the weather inside a once-popular cinema. The usual activities that characterize a Chinese movie theatre still go on – people in the audience noisily crack watermelon seeds and move around – but the atmosphere is eerie. Male figures slowly emerge from the dark, a gaunt army of pallid ghosts testifying to what this cinema has become: a meeting place for gay encounters.

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Distribution	Catalyst Logic - Region 0 - NTSC
Runtime	1:21:04
Video	1.66:1 Original Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate: 9.48 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s
	NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.
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Audio	Mandarin (Dolby Digital 2.0 Dolby)
Subtitles	English, Chinese, None
Features	Release Information: Studio: Catalyst Logic Aspect Ratio: Original aspect Ratio 1.66:1 Edition Details: * 3 page double-sided foldout booklet in Chinese * Scene Selection * Commentary (Mandarin Chinese) * Opening Ceremony (4:25) * News Media Interview (13:54) * Nanhau University (9:23) * National Cheng Kung University (9:52) * I-Shou University (1:50) * Shu Uemure Forum (5:18) * (Note that none of the extras are subtitled) DVD Release Date: 04/01/2004 Keep Case with Cardboard Slipcase Chapters: 9


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