Until last year, when WinStar scooped up the rights to six of his features for a touring retrospective and subsequent video release, Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien was almost a mythical figure in ...

Set at the close of the 19th century, the film takes place exclusively within the confines of one of the city’s brothels, known as “Flower Houses”, where it depicts the interactions of five courtesans ...

Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien (FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI, CAFE LUMIERE, MILLENNIUM MAMBO) has delivered one of the most rapturously beautiful and romantic movies of the year. Three different time periods ...

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There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

The filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien’s entrancing Flowers of Shanghai (1998) unfolds in a revolving world. Its action occurs inside a brothel in the British quarter of late-19th-century Shanghai, where a ...

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So what gives? Are a few dozen pretentious Lower Manhattan cineastes leading us astray? It’d be simpler to say “yes,” but the more complicated, qualified “no” confirms Hou as a great artist whose ...

At the end of the 19th century, Shanghai is divided into several foreign concessions. In the British concession, a number of luxurious “flower houses” are reserved for the male elite of the city.