Cristina Álvarez López

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There is perhaps no greater example of the emergence of a specifically 21st-century cinephilia than Edward Yang. A vanguard member of the Taiwan New Cinema movement – which included among its ranks Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wu Nien-jen and Ko I-chen – he made just seven feature films before his untimely death from cancer at the age of 59, and yet his impact looms large over world cinema, in spite of its long-term inaccessibility.