Goodbye, Dragon Inn by Tsai Ming-liang

Tsai Ming-liang, Goodbye, Dragon Inn, 2003. Image courtesy Metrograph.

Tsai Ming-liang, Goodbye, Dragon Inn, 2003. Image courtesy Metrograph.

Tsai Ming-liang, Goodbye, Dragon Inn, 2003. Image courtesy Metrograph.

Tsai Ming-liang, Goodbye, Dragon Inn, 2003. Image courtesy Metrograph.

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“THE best film of the past 125 years.” —Apichatpong Weerasethakul

The Fu-Ho movie palace is closing down. On its final night, King Hu’s martial arts epic Dragon Inn plays to a cavernous, near-empty cinema. The film follows a cast of characters that includes the cinema’s workers and audiences, among which are two actors from Hu’s film watching 1967 versions of themselves onscreen. Moving through the hallways, backrooms, and rows of red velvet seats, the line between corporeal and ethereal becomes increasingly blurred. Are these figures real, or are they ghosts haunting the architecture? Part homage, part séance, Tsai Ming-liang’s impeccably wrought, meditative narrative is both a celebration of and a lament for the communal experience of cinema. 2003, Taiwan, DCP, in Mandarin with English subtitles, 82 min.

Introduced by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

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Bio

Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang (b. Malaysia, 1957) premiered his debut feature Rebels of the Neon God at the Berlinale in 1992. He won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival in 1994 with Vive L’Amour and won the jury award at Berlin for The River in 1996. In 2009, Face became the first film to be included in the collection of the Louvre. Calling the attention of the art world, Tsai participates in various art exhibitions introducing new modes for viewing cinema. His recent film Days (2020) won the Jury Award at the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival and screened at the Walker Cinema in January 2022.