John Taylor

2 months ago | bfi.org.uk | Ryan Swen |Jasper Sharp |John Taylor |Cristina Lopez |Cristina Álvarez López

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.

Aug 22, 2024 | source.ie | John Taylor

Issue 29 Winter 2001View Contents ▸My friend Dr Death – named for his diligence in gathering representations of war – confessed that he had been unable to collect the newspapers from 12 September onwards. He had bought his daily Guardian, but had not been able to study it closely. I confessed to buying all the papers for that week, as my collecting habits extend to all types of catastrophe in photographs. Though we are both squeamish and only look at pictures, I am a greater ghoul than he.