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The Arch 1968
A hidden gem by Cecile Tang, a rare women director working in HK at the time. Not surprisingly, the film is about a woman - Madam Tung, a middle-aged widow who ends up falling for the military captain her nubile daughter also envies. Tang was clearly a trailblazer for New HK Cinema of the '80s and '90s. The film was shot by Subratra Mitra, who was Satayjit Ray's dp and it was edited by Les Blank, an American ethnographer. It…
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Daughter of the Nile 1987
A somewhat atypical Hou film despite the fact that it contains traces of later Hou films like Goodbye South Goodbye and Millennium Mambo. But overall it feels far too disjointed to leave much of an impact. The narration passages also don't work and the casting of popular Taiwanese singer is also a bit suspect. Nightime Taipei looks great though as it always does in Hou's films. This is the kind of film Hsiao-hsien hadn't made before but he would make in a much more satisfactory fashion later on.
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Code Unknown 2000
Code Unknown is Haneke's most fascinating film. It's essentially a mystery, but the mystery here is not part of the movie like in Cache. In other words, it's not a whodunit. It lies instead in the film's structure and the intention and motivation of the characters. The film deals with a number of issues, including social inequality, race, communication, etc., but Haneke leaves it up to the viewer to figure things out. Code Unknown may remind viewers of Babel or…
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