The best Edward Yang’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Edward Yang’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Edward Yang.
Yi Yi
8.1/10
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries.
A Summer at Grandpa's
7.6/10
A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.
First Love Unlimited
6.6/10
Only the lack of roses in every frame prevent this teen romance from being a live action Shojo Manga.
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
7/10
This highly personal film essay demonstrates that Chinese cinema has dealt with questions of gender and sexuality more frankly and provocatively than any other national cinema. Yang ± Yin examines male bonding and phallic imagery in the swordplay and kung fu movies of the '60s and '70s; homosexuality; same-sex bonding and physical intimacy; the continuing emphasis on women's grievances in melodramas; and the phenomenon of Yam Kim-Fai, a Hong Kong actress who spent her life portraying men on and off the screen.
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
From the 1980s to the 1990s, New Taiwanese Cinema gained international attention for adopting a completely different approach to that of the commercial films which had preceded it. This piece contrasts Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang, two rivals who were the driving force behind New Taiwanese Cinema. The closing of a cinema invites us to reflect on society and the passage of history.
