Criterion Collection: A Confucian Confusion 獨立時代/ Mahjong 麻將: Two Films by Edward Yang BR

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In this pair of sharp, sprawling satires, one of Taiwan’s most celebrated filmmakers, Edward Yang, captures the anything-can-happen mood of Taipei at the end of the twentieth century. Made in between his epic dramas A Brighter Summer Day and Yi Yi, A Confucian Confusion and Mahjong find Yang applying a lighter but no less masterly touch to his explorations of human relationships in an increasingly globalized, hypercapitalistic world. These intricately constructed ensemble comedies—one set in a cutthroat corporate milieu, the other in a shady criminal underworld—reveal the absurdity and cynicism at the heart of modern urban life.

TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 4K digital restorations, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks

Excerpts of director Edward Yang speaking after a 1994 screening of A Confucian Confusion

New interview with editor Chen Po-wen

New conversation between Chinese-cultural-studies scholar Michael Berry and film critic Justin Chang

Performance of Yang’s 1992 play Likely Consequence

PLUS: An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim and a 1994 director’s note on A Confucian Confusion

In this pair of sharp, sprawling satires, one of Taiwan’s most celebrated filmmakers, Edward Yang, captures the anything-can-happen mood of Taipei at the end of the twentieth century. Made in between his epic dramas A Brighter Summer Day and Yi Yi, A Confucian Confusion and Mahjong find Yang applying a lighter but no less masterly touch to his explorations of human relationships in an increasingly globalized, hypercapitalistic world. These intricately constructed ensemble comedies—one set in a cutthroat corporate milieu, the other in a shady criminal underworld—reveal the absurdity and cynicism at the heart of modern urban life.

TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 4K digital restorations, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks

Excerpts of director Edward Yang speaking after a 1994 screening of A Confucian Confusion

New interview with editor Chen Po-wen

New conversation between Chinese-cultural-studies scholar Michael Berry and film critic Justin Chang

Performance of Yang’s 1992 play Likely Consequence

PLUS: An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim and a 1994 director’s note on A Confucian Confusion

基本資料 Information
ISBN 715515317917
Language 語言 國語
Year 年份 1994/96
Country 國家 Taiwan
Director 導演 Edward Yang
Director link bio 導演連結 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945981/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_4_nm_4_in_0_q_edward%2520yan
Stars 主演 Chang Chen, Chen Shiang-chyi, Edward Yang
runtime 片長 129/ 120 mins
Number of Disc 碟數 2
Studio 出版公司 Criterion
region 地區碼 A
format 影音格式 Bluray
Subtitles 字幕 英文
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