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Deliberately paced yet absorbing, Goodbye, Dragon Inn offers an affectionate -- and singularly unique -- look at a fading theater that should strike a chord with cineastes.
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This elegiac 2003 comedy, by the Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang, is a requiem for a movie theatre. Jun 2, 2014
This elegiac 2003 comedy, by the Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang, is a requiem for a movie theatre.
Richard Brody
A weird, funny, melancholy tribute to movies and movie-going, an opus for film geeks that rang my personal bell. Jan 6, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/4
A weird, funny, melancholy tribute to movies and movie-going, an opus for film geeks that rang my personal bell.
Michael Wilmington
Idiosyncratic, oddball movie that is both funny and moody. Dec 17, 2004 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Idiosyncratic, oddball movie that is both funny and moody.
G. Allen Johnson
This is one of the most gorgeous and maturely composed movies you'll see this year. Oct 29, 2004 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
This is one of the most gorgeous and maturely composed movies you'll see this year.
Wesley Morris
Tsai is hugely popular with film critics, I believe, in part because film critics actually have something to do while watching his films. While the girl is limping down the hallway, we can take notes. Regular theatergoers? They can only watch helplessly. Oct 15, 2004 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Tsai is hugely popular with film critics, I believe, in part because film critics actually have something to do while watching his films. While the girl is limping down the hallway, we can take notes. Regular theatergoers? They can only watch helplessly.
Erik Lundegaard
Tsai Ming-Ling's bitter-sweet Goodbye Dragon Inn isn't easy to categorise: an exercise in cinematic minimalism, it's a ghost story, a deadpan comedy, and a lament for an earlier era of film-going. Oct 6, 2004 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Tsai Ming-Ling's bitter-sweet Goodbye Dragon Inn isn't easy to categorise: an exercise in cinematic minimalism, it's a ghost story, a deadpan comedy, and a lament for an earlier era of film-going.
Tom Dawson
What's the matter with these people? Why are they such a bunch of zombies? May 5, 2010 | Full Review…
What's the matter with these people? Why are they such a bunch of zombies?
Kelly Vance
Long, boring shots. Reallllly long boring shots. Woman walks up stairs, woman walks down stairs. The end. Bleh. Jun 21, 2007 | Rating: D- | Full Review…
Long, boring shots. Reallllly long boring shots. Woman walks up stairs, woman walks down stairs. The end. Bleh.
Jason Gorber
Plays as a meditation on the deep feelings felt by the viewer and the filmmaker towards the movie experience. Aug 24, 2005 | Rating: A+ | Full Review…
Plays as a meditation on the deep feelings felt by the viewer and the filmmaker towards the movie experience.
Dennis Schwartz
It's not a sentimental ode to the cinema like "Cinema Paradiso." It's more like "Cinema Purgatorio." Mar 10, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/4
It's not a sentimental ode to the cinema like "Cinema Paradiso." It's more like "Cinema Purgatorio."
Rob Thomas
Everywhere, Tsai [Ming-Liang] lingers long enough to risk driving his audience to distraction, and I am afraid I succumbed early. Jan 14, 2005 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Everywhere, Tsai [Ming-Liang] lingers long enough to risk driving his audience to distraction, and I am afraid I succumbed early.
Deborah Hornblow
A marvelously subtle variation on the theme of the haunted house. Oct 29, 2004 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
A marvelously subtle variation on the theme of the haunted house.
James Verniere
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