Edward Yang - Beyond Realism
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Alfred Hitchcock once said that drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Everything touched by the camera becomes more powerful, intense and somewhat real. The boring parts of life are transfigured in cinema. Because, as soon as you film them they are no longer boring. Anything is stylized when you put a camera in front of it. If you are looking for realism you can certainly look to Italian neo realism, but there’s a Taiwanese director who made it better: Edward Yang.
Films Shown
The Birds, Hitchcock
Notorious, Hitchcock
Psycho, Hitchcock
Hot Fuzz, Wright
The Arriving of the Train at La Ciotat, Lumiere Brothers
Bicycle Thieves, De Sica
Koyaanisqatsi, Reggio
Close-Up, Kiarostami
Whiplash, Chazelle
Birdman, Inarritu
The Passion of Joan D'Arc, Dreyer
Videodrome, Cronenberg
Lost Highway, Lynch
Boogie Nights, P.T. Anderson
The Royal Tenenbaums, W. Anderson
Blow Out, De Palma
Man with a Movie Camera, Vertov
Edward Yang Films Shown
That Day, On the Beach
The Terrorizers
Taipei Story
A brighter Summer Day
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