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beingharsh · 2 years

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Yi Yi (2000), dir. Edward Yang

#yi yi #edward yang #kelly lee #film #film stills #film quotes #filmedit #movies #movie stills #movie quotes #quotes #cinema #cinephile #dailyworldcinema #my posts

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pdaliceliveblogs · 1 year

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wait does he also have patches for various magical disciplines

did he make Luz her pants

#owl house #the owl house #owl house liveblog #owlblog #pdaliceblogs #owl 303 #toh spoilers #hunter #yi yi #dell #gwendolyn #bat babies #did I have a tag for them? I don't remember

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kiwd · 2 years

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cinematicjourney · 2 years

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Yi Yi (2000) | dir. Edward Yang

#yi yi #edward yang #wu nien jen #kelly lee #films #movies #cinematography #screencaps

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hellish-cruelty · 4 months

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Movie parallels - Phantom thread (2017), Yi Yi (2000), Babylon (2022), Footloose (1984), La la land (2016), Flight of the Red Balloon (2007), Indiana Jones and temple of doom (2984), The witches of eastwick (1987), Up (2009), It (2017)

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kdram-chjh · 3 months

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Cdrama: Different Princess (2024)

😣 #DifferentPrincess #花青歌 #优酷 #youku #宋伊人 #shorts

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fr71aZsrUlk

#Different Princess #花青歌 #Flower Green Song #Hua Qing Ge #Fa Cheng Go #2024 #youtube #cdrama #chinese drama #episode 1 #1st episode #Youku #Web Series #Ireine Song #Yi Yi #Ding Ze Ren #Ji Chu

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vulpixtual · 9 months

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The River (1997) - Tsai Ming-liang

Chungking Express (1994) - Wong Kar Wai

Fallen Angels (1995) - Wong Kar Wai

Yi Yi (2000) - Edward Yang

#wong kar wai #edward yang #fallen angels #chungking express #the river #tsai ming-liang #yi yi

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treethymes · 1 year

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That Day, on the Beach (1983) Yi Yi (2000)

#edward yang #that day on the beach #yi yi

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3080ti · 2 years

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Yi Yi (2000), dir. Edward Yang

#yi yi #edward yang #film #**

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aishiteru-clip · 1 year

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#yi yi #cap #film

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beingharsh · 2 years

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Yi Yi (2000), dir. Edward Yang

#yi yi #edward yang #kelly lee #film #film stills #filmedit #movies #movie stills #cinema #cinephile #cinematography #dailyworldcinema #my posts

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frozenkissbythefountain · 1 year

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yi yi (2000)

#yi yi #edward yang #taiwanese film

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jgthirlwell · 24 days

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03.31.24 Ukranian folk ensemble Yi Yi at TV Eye

#Yi Yi #Ukranian #TV Eye

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loneberry · 26 days

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Yi Yi by Edward Yang

Kaili Peng (wife of Yang) + Haden Guest, Sean Yang (son)

This film has been on my watchlist for ages. When I saw the Harvard Film Archive was doing an Edward Yang retrospective, I waited to watch a glorious 35 mm print. The film was introduced by Yang's wife, pianist Kaili Peng, and son, Sean Yang. Sean spoke of his father's early death, about only getting to know his dad through his films. After the screening Kaili describe Yi Yi as a "prelude to his own passing," his last "love letter to the world." She described Yang as a moody and passionate person, prone to bouts of anger. Yet while making Yi Yi, he was always in a good mood--that "sweetness" (her word) is captured in the tone of the film.

Why is it that the films of the Taiwan New Cinema + Second New Wave (especially Tsai Ming-liang) capture urban alienation so powerfully? What is the root of this melancholia? You'd think Taipei was the loneliest place in the world. I don't know. Maybe it is. I've never been, even though my father immigrated from Taiwan and I've long wanted to go there to scatter my grandfather's ashes.

Yi Yi contains sadness and levity in equal measure. In that sense it is true to life. The adult characters are haunted by their disappointments. Min-Min is plagued by a lack of meaning she tries to counter with Buddhist retreats. NJ is troubled by the counterfactuals of his life—the career he did not pursue, the great love he abandoned, who he encounters 30 years later. The children repeat the disappointments of their parents, continuing the cycle, ad infinitum. Strange, the night before watching Yi Yi, I watched Abbas Kiarostami's Where Is the Friend's House?. Both films stage an encounter between a child and an elderly person as a way to meditate on life and time. In both films there is affinity between the child and old person, who exist on the outer edges of the life cycle. Yes, you can't help but feel, watching Yi Yi, that the little boy Yang-Yang is an old soul (see the films final lines). Yang-Yang is the film's comic relief. I love what that boy sees—the photographs he takes of the backs of people's heads, how I dreamed them (see the photos that open my Sunflower book).

Ting-Ting, too, is beautiful in her loneliness. Her guilt, her insomnia. She dreams of relief: "Now that you've forgiven me, I can sleep."

How am I supposed to address the dying? Every soliloquy to the comatose grandma is the character confronting themselves. NJ mumbles that speaking to someone in a coma is like praying. Do they hear you? Are your words sincere?

The way the film is shot, too, adds to the feeling that the characters are self-enclosed. Much of the action takes place in cramped interiors. The camera is often placed outside the building or train, just beyond the windows, giving you the feeling the they are ensheathed by glass. The window becomes a nexus between the interior and exterior: in the glass we can see what is happening outside at the same time we are observing the facial expressions of the characters. The headlights of the nighttime traffic dance on a woman's face. This is truly the hand of a director with a powerful vision.

Kaili said, after the screening, that Edward's autobiography is manifest in many of the characters. Edward was turned down from piano lessons, as was NJ. The music only meant something to him after the first time he fell in love.

What can I say. It's a beautiful film. Watch it.

[Read more film reviews on my Letterboxd.]

#film #Edward yang #yi yi #一一 #loneliness

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cryingoverfilmshots · 2 years

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