Product Description: Like the Royal Theater in The Last Picture Show and the title movie house in Cinema Paradiso, the Fu-Ho is shutting down for good. The Fu-Ho’s valedictory screening is King Hu’s 1967 wuxia epic Dragon Inn, playing to a motley smattering of spectators. The standard grievances persist: patrons snack noisily and remove their shoes, treating this temple of cinema like their living room. The sense that moviegoing as a communal experience is slipping away takes on a powerful and painful resonance. Yet Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn is too multifaceted to collapse into a simple valentine to the age of pre-VOD cinephilia. A minimalist where King Hu was a maximalist, preferring long, static shots and sparse use of dialogue, Tsai rises to the narrative challenges he sets for himself and offers the slyest, most delicate of character arcs (the manager, a woman with an iron brace on her leg, embarks on a torturous odyssey to deliver food to the projectionist, played by Lee Kang-sheng). By the time the possibility arises that the theater is haunted, we’ve already identified it as a space outside of time—indeed, two stars of Hu’s original opus, Miao Tien and Shih Chun, watch their younger selves with tears in their eyes, past and present commingling harmoniously and poignantly. 4K Restoration by CINEMATEK, the Royal Film Archive of Belgium.
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JUMP BACK TO TOPDirector: Tsai Ming-liang
Starring: Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, Mitamura Kiyonobu, Miao Tien
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Runtime: 82 min
Rating: Not Rated
Language: Mandarin
Studio: Kino Lorber
Home Video Release Date: December 12, 2023
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- Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
- Resolution: 1080p
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Region: Region A/1
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- Blu-ray: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, LPCM 2.0
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JUMP BACK TO TOP- Audio commentary by film critic Phoebe Chen
- Introduction by film critic Nick Pinkerton
- Light (2019, a short film by Tsai Ming-liang)
- Re-Release Trailer
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