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Edward Yang (Chinese: 楊德昌; pinyin: Yáng Déchāng; November 6, 1947 – 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.
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.
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.
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...
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adjusting to their global city’s ever-evolving zeitgeist—even as they exhibited a novelistic field of vision that superseded time and place.
May 5, 2024 · As a leading figure of the Taiwan New Cinema—inaugurated by the omnibus film In Our Time(1982)—Yang conducted a series of marvelously unyielding inquiries into the trials and tribulations of contemporary life in Taipei through seven and a quarter feature-length films.
Dec 21, 2023 · Later in 1982, Yang wrote and directed a short story, Desire, also known as Expectations, for the omnibus film In Our Time, an early landmark of what came to be known as the Taiwanese New Wave. Set in the 1960s, Desire/Expectations focuses on a young woman’s sexual awakening, and for Sean Gilman, writing for the Notebook in 2020, Yang’s ...
Jul 19, 2023 · All the above are scenes and characters from the films of Edward Yang, a Taiwanese director of great breadth and intimacy who completed just eight-and-a-quarter works before dying of cancer...
Feb 3, 2024 · The American Cinematheque is honored to pay tribute to filmmaker Edward Yang, a pioneer of the Taiwanese New Wave, whose films employ a realist visual style, unconventional narrative structures, and nonprofessional actors to create an intimate and grounded reflection of society in Taiwan.
