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World Cinema Project
Featuring: Yilmaz Güney, Tsai Chin, Pervin Par, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Erol Ta?, Wu Nien-jen, Tuncer Necmioglu, Lin Hsiu-ling, Muharrem Gürses, Ko Su-yun
Law of the Border
Set along the Turkish-Syrian frontier, this terse, elemental tale of smugglers contending with a changing social landscape brought together two giants of Turkish cinema. Director Lütfi Ö. Akad had already made some of his country’s most notable films when he was approached by Yilmaz Güney—a rising action star who would become Turkey’s most important and controversial filmmaker—to collaborate on this neo-western about a quiet man who finds himself pitted against his fellow outlaws. Combining documentary authenticity with a tough, lean poetry, Law of the Border transformed the nation’s cinema forever—even though it was virtually impossible to see for many years.
Taipei Story
Edward Yang’s second feature is a mournful anatomy of a city caught between the past and the present. Made in collaboration with Yang’s fellow New Taiwan Cinema master Hou Hsiao-hsien, who cowrote the screenplay and helped finance the project, Taipei Story chronicles the growing estrangement between a washed-up baseball player (Hou, in a rare on-screen performance) working in his family’s textile business and his girlfriend (pop star Tsai Chin), who clings to the upward mobility of her career in property development. As the couple’s dreams of marriage and emigration begin to unravel, Yang’s gaze illuminates the precariousness of domestic life and the desperation of Taiwan’s globalized modernity.
Set along the Turkish-Syrian frontier, this terse, elemental tale of smugglers contending with a changing social landscape brought together two giants of Turkish cinema. Director Lütfi Ö. Akad had already made some of his country’s most notable films when he was approached by Yilmaz Güney—a rising action star who would become Turkey’s most important and controversial filmmaker—to collaborate on this neo-western about a quiet man who finds himself pitted against his fellow outlaws. Combining documentary authenticity with a tough, lean poetry, Law of the Border transformed the nation’s cinema forever—even though it was virtually impossible to see for many years.
Taipei Story
Edward Yang’s second feature is a mournful anatomy of a city caught between the past and the present. Made in collaboration with Yang’s fellow New Taiwan Cinema master Hou Hsiao-hsien, who cowrote the screenplay and helped finance the project, Taipei Story chronicles the growing estrangement between a washed-up baseball player (Hou, in a rare on-screen performance) working in his family’s textile business and his girlfriend (pop star Tsai Chin), who clings to the upward mobility of her career in property development. As the couple’s dreams of marriage and emigration begin to unravel, Yang’s gaze illuminates the precariousness of domestic life and the desperation of Taiwan’s globalized modernity.
Details by Film
Law of the Border
Year: 1966
Time: 76
Aspect Ratios
1.37:1
Audio
Turkish Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Turkish PCM Mono 1.0
Streaming Options
25947.
+16804
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2
Taipei Story
Year: 1985
Time: 110
Aspect Ratios
1.85:1
1.85:1
Audio
Taiwanese Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Taiwanese PCM Mono 1.0
Streaming Options
28467.
+26281
Rent
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
DVD
Discs:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 3 Discs
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
1.85:1
Audio Options:
Turkish Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Taiwanese Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Turkish PCM Mono 1.0
Taiwanese PCM Mono 1.0
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Introduction, Advertising, Booklet
- New introductions to the films by World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese
- New interview programs featuring producer Mevlüt Akkaya, and actor and cowriter Hou Hsiao-hsien with filmmaker Edward Wong
- A booklet featuring essays by Phillip Lopate, Dennis Lim, Kent Jones, Fábio Andrade, Bilge Ebiri, and Andrew Chan
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