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...Taipei Story tells of childhood sweethearts Ah Chin and Ah Lung (pop star Tsai Chin and fellow director Hou Hsiao-hsien, neither of whom had acted professionally before)....
...Hou, who represented Taiwan in its first Venice Biennale pavilion in 1995 and whose latest vast, gold foil works exploring sexual desire get a solo showing at Mizuiro Workshop gallery ($75,000 each)....
...“The audience cannot be fooled,” said Hou Zhihui, a film producer....
...With domestic film studios in disarray, Lei Ming, chief executive of ABD Entertainment, a digital entertainment company in Beijing, says that if China’s box office is saved this year, it will be by foreign...
...At the Venice Film Festival, near the end of Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang’s Stray Dogs, there was an unbelievably long, static, silent shot: one that concentrated all the film’s tensions, unspoken...
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