Reverse Shot. 23.

"With the pleasures of the magnificent Flight of the Red Balloon still floating in our heads, we feel the time is right for a comprehensive look back at one of the best and most aesthetically important filmmakers of the past few decades: Hou Hsiao-hsien.... Wedding political filmmaking with a technique at once naturalistic and highly aestheticized, Hou has made films that wrestle, variously, and either directly or metaphorically, with personal and national histories, the struggles between Taiwan and Chinese nationalism, the encroachment of capital on an ever-evolving way of life, and, most recently, the legacy of cinema itself."

Reverse Shot editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert introduce the new issue, "Hou Hsiao-hsien: In Search of Lost Time." I'd love to give this issue in particular the usual Daily sweep, but I'm in crunch mode at the moment as I get ready to cross the Atlantic. You dive in, though, and I look forward to joining you when I get back.

Posted by dwhudson at September 23, 2008 2:24 PM