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Edward Yang (Chinese: 楊德昌; pinyin: Yáng Déchāng; November 6, 1947 [1] – June 29, 2007) was a Taiwanese filmmaker. He rose to prominence as a pioneer in the Taiwanese New Wave of the 1980s, alongside fellow auteurs Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang.
Born on November 6, 1947 in Shanghai, China, Edward Yang has become one of the most talented international filmmakers of his generation. Along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming-Liang, Yang ranks among the leading artists of the Taiwanese New Wave, and one of the world's most brilliant auteurs.
Apr 9, 2022 · Ranking the catalogue of one of the most consistent filmmakers ever feels like a pointless endeavor, a disservice to such a brilliant output of films. Edward Yang never made a bad movie, leaving us with seven features that all stand as valuable filmmaking of its own.
Nov 17, 2021 · At the dawn of a new millennium, Edward Yang completed his magnum opus: an extraordinary meditation on modernity and changing human values in a transitional society. Tragically, it would be his final film before he died at just 59 years old in 2007.
Jul 3, 2024 · Set a decade after the Chinese Nationalists fled the mainland, the 1991 epic A Brighter Summer Day is Edward Yang’s semi-autobiographical reflection on what it was like, and what it means, to...
The films of Edward Yang (1947–2007) were among the first to capture the ethos of Taiwan’s rapid modernization—particularly Taipei urbanites adjusting to their global city’s ever-evolving zeitgeist—even as they exhibited a novelistic field of vision that superseded time and place.
Jan 11, 2024 · Edward Yang’s States of Flux His dark comedies and family dramas of life in late-20th-century Taiwan depict a generation’s crisis, confronting the forces of finance and globalization. Vikram...
Jul 19, 2023 · Yang has had numerous posthumous retrospectives internationally, but A One and a Two: Edward Yang Retrospective is the first to present his archives — scripts, essays, diaries — and screen his...
Dec 21, 2023 · An ego-tripping playwright and a conniving lawyer married to an aspiring actress further complicate an entangled web of seduction and backstabbing.
Feb 9, 2024 · Before his untimely death in 2007, Edward Yang was arguably the world’s greatest filmmaker: an artist with the patience of a great novelist and the vision of a master painter. Of all the directors to emerge from the New Taiwan Cinema of the 1980s and ‘90s, his star shone brightest.
