Arts RIP Edward Yang
posted by on July 2 at 16:09 PM
Taiwanese director Edward Yang passed away yesterday from colon cancer, leaving behind a handful of films ranging from the merely great (1991’s A Brighter Summer Day) to the oh-my-god-this-is-incredibly-awesome (2000’s Yi Yi). Greencine has more info (including details on his upcoming planned collaboration with Jackie Chan) and a steadily increasing number of tributes.
In an attempt to cheer myself up, here’s the trailer for (the extremely unYanglike) Hardcase and Fist. (NSFW)
it just don't get much better than yi yi. i think about this movie all the time. saw it from 8-11 p.m. on new year's eve 00-01. r.i.p. e.y. seems like a guy who followed himself where it led.
Hey, where'd the post about skylines go?
A Brighter Summer Day is more than merely great. It's very possibly the best film to play SIFF in the 1990s. Maybe ever. But since I haven't seen his other stuff, I'll give you a bit of the benefit of the doubt.
Thanks for making the movies, Mr. Yang.
Oh, fuck. That hurts. *Yi Yi* is easily in my top-five movies of the last quarter-century.
Read somewhere that he was planning to make a movie in Seattle.
that's not Aimee Mann (right?), but it sure sounds like her... I am thinkng of the Magonlia soundtrack here. I love that movie, Magnolia, in which, among many other things, our ccp hero John C Reilly loses his gun. Many copycat films later, but Magnolia broke ground. Oh how about William H Macy (another newby at the time) having a crush on the cute and hot bartender with braces while that jaded old queen played by Laugh In alum/poet Henry Gibson chimed in. At the time, I related to the braced bartender but now I am definitely Henry. And that is only in the course of what? five years.
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