Nick Pinkerton, Goodbye Dragon Inn
Is cinema really dying? As movie houses close and corporations dominate, the art form is at risk of changing beyond recognition. In this wide-ranging and elegiac essay, Nick Pinkerton reflects upon Tsai Ming-liang’s 2003 film Goodbye, Dragon Inn, a modern classic haunted by the ghosts and portents of a culture in flux. [publisher’s information]
Published by Fireflies Press
Part of the Decadent Editions series
ISBN: 9783981918670
240 pages
2021
Stock: ✔
14 Eur
Is cinema really dying? As movie houses close and corporations dominate, the art form is at risk of changing beyond recognition. In this wide-ranging and elegiac essay, Nick Pinkerton reflects upon Tsai Ming-liang’s 2003 film Goodbye, Dragon Inn, a modern classic haunted by the ghosts and portents of a culture in flux. [publisher’s information]
Published by Fireflies Press
Part of the Decadent Editions series
ISBN: 9783981918670
240 pages
2021
Stock: ✔
14 Eur
About the film:
In an old Taipei movie theatre, on the eve of a ‘temporary closing’, King Hu’s 1967 wuxia classic Dragon Inn plays to a dwindling audience. Lonely souls cruise the aisles for companionship while two actors from Hu’s film watch themselves writ large, perhaps for the last time.
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