Edward Yang

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Edward Yang.

Yeah.

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Amazing kid.

Wow.

And the friends over at Criterion have hologram Edward Yang on call whenever we want.

Uh, Trace, I'm not letting you off the hook just yet.

You can, uh, find all my work here at awardswatch.com. You can listen to other podcasts that I have here on Awards Watch, Director Watch.

We're doing Edward Yang right now.

Um, it is, uh, A Brighter Summer Day will be released on, on Thursday.

Very good film, very wild episode.

You can find me on Instagram, Letterboxd, Twitter, at RyanMcQuaid77.

You can find all my work here at awardswatch.com. You can listen to Director Watch, which we're in the middle of an Edward Yang movie series right now.

Brighter Summer Day is the release this week.

It's a really... chaotic episode and it teaches you a vital lesson which is to never give Jay Ledbetter a surprise because he doesn't like surprises and that's okay so iTunes Spotify five-star reviews we greatly appreciate it on the website sign up for the newsletter Eric's putting it together twice a week it's The best place to get all of our news, reviews, interviews, podcasts sent to you all in one place.

This is not interesting listening.

Episode 93, Mahjong, where we also talk about capitalism under the framework of other, I guess he also bears all, Edward Yang, bears all about capitalism, not about bodies.

So anyway, I bring this up because I think about this film for Kadi Tipo in the sense of like, because we talked about in a way three sections, right? The first section, which like she is doing factory work.

And then like the second section where she learns where like there's sexual danger in any workplace for her.

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... as in the Edward Yang film, not in-

Oh

... not the, not the Terrifier-

It's on HBO.

You can watch it or stream it on their app.

Next week, we will be back and we're gonna talk about the next film on our Edward Yang series, A Brighter Summer Day.

Big one.

Yes.

We're here to talk about Taipei Story, the, the first film in our Edward Yang movie series.

Yeah.

Which I'm very excited to talk about with you, and-

Taipei Story.

Taipei Story.

Well, first of all, let's talk about Edward Yang.

Yes.

Uh, if you like podcasts, sadly my Director Watch co-host is not here today, uh, who was our seventh member of our fellowship here, and, uh, I would assume that La Bola Negra, um, or the Nathan Fielder film would be his choice.

Um, and, uh, we are starting our Edward Yang movie series, and Taipei Story is an episode that should be dropping, uh, on Monday.

Fabulous.

Uh, so I'll just be a broken record.

The title Taipei Story is a direct citation.

It is a deliberate, highly visible echo of Edward Yang's 1985 landmark film of the new Taiwanese cinema movement, which is also titled Taipei Story.

Right.

The original Chinese idiom for the firm's title is King Meizuma.