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| Hou
Hsiao-Hsien |
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| Director
/ Screenwriter / Producer |
| 1947 - |
| Born April 8,
Meixian, Guangdong, China |
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Production Country: Taiwan
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Key Genres:
Drama, Family Drama, Period Film |
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Collaborators: Tien-wen
Chu
(Screenwriter), Pin
Bing Lee (Cinematographer), Ching-Song
Liao (Editor), Jack Kao
(Leading Player), Wen-Ying Huang (Production Designer/Producer), Tianlu Li (Leading Player), Annie Shizuka Inoh (Leading Player),
Shozo Ichiyama (Producer), Nien-Jen Wu (Screenwriter), Giong Lim (Leading Character Player) |
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Highly Recommended:
A
City of Sadness (1989) |
| Recommended: The
Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985), Dust in the Wind (1986),
Flowers of Shanghai (1998), Cafe Lumiere (2003), Three
Times (2005), Flight of the Red Balloon (2007) |
| Links:
[
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [
Film Reference ]
[ Strictly
Film School ] [
Guardian Unlimited Interview (2005) ] [
Wikipedia ] [ Senses
of Cinema Article ] [
Senses of Cinema Feature (2006) ] [
Sight & Sound Article (2006) ] [
Film Comment
Article (1999) ] [
Cinetext Essay (2003) ] [
China Through a
Lens Profile ] |
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Books:
[
Hou Hsiao-Hsien ] [
Toward a Semiotics of Chinese Cinema (Jinquan Hu, Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
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DVD's:
[ Amazon
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Greatest Films: The
Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985), A
City of Sadness (1989), The Puppetmaster (1993),
Flowers of Shanghai (1998) |
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21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films:
Cafe Lumiere (2003),
Three Times (2005) |
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"His
contemplative style is at times reminiscent of
Ozu, with its generally static
camera and simple compositions (though he usually favours far
longer takes), and his early films likewise portray tensions in
the family...Hou's quiet, impressionistic narratives build
steadily to an emotional pay-off that is often devastating when
it finally comes." - Geoff
Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999) |
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"Hou is an
extraordinary director - gentle, reflective, beautifully
composed, inclined to hold his shots in space and duration. He
exemplifies that natural, fluent style that unites so many of
the most thoughtful directors. I urge any reader to seek out his
work, in whatever form it can be found." - David
Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002) |
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"Hou
Hsiao-hsien is the most internationally renowned of the
filmmakers associated with Taiwan's "New Cinema" movement. The
"New Cinema" was forged out of the country's aging industry in
the early 1980s by a group of emerging filmmakers, most of whom
were in their early thirties at the time...Hou's achievement is
not only in his cinematic sensitivities but also in his social
consciousness. As much as he is a filmmaker, Hou is a historical
and social commentator of the first order.." -
Vivian Huang (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers,
1991) |
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