For me, Edward Yang’s “Yi Yi: A One and a Two …” may be the greatest film ever, let alone the best of the decade. What does that mean? For starters, it means that Yang’s final film lies somewhere ...

Taiwanese director Edward Yang, whose 2000 film Yi Yi won the Best Director award at Cannes and Best Film from the National Society of Film Critics, died Friday in Beverly Hills of colon cancer. He ...

Unless you are lucky enough to frequent film festivals around the world, the name Edward Yang will mean nothing to you. This Taiwanese writer-director is a world-class talent, yet until now none of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Like the somber tones of Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata that echoes through the Taiwanese ...

The current blossoming of Chinese cinema reveals a culture circumscribed by family ties in a manner not seen in most of the West for more than a century. Yi Yi begins with a wedding and ends with a ...

“Happy families are all alike,” begins Anna Karenina. “Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The way in which the Jians, the central family in Edward Yang’s 173-minute Yi Yi, are unhappy is ...

When Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story was released in 1953, the film didn't immediately gain worldwide traction as international distributors found the film to be "too Japanese." Decades later, Ozu's ...