A Brighter Summer Day - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)

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A Brighter Summer Day - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)An intoxicating, time bending experience bathed in the golden glow of oil lamps and wreathed in an opium haze, this gorgeous period reverie by Hou Hsiao hsien traces the romantic intrigue, jealousies, and tensions swirling around four late nineteenth century Shanghai flower houses, where courtesans live confined to a gilded cage, ensconced in opulent splendor but forced to work to buy back their freedom. Among the regular clients is the taciturn

charts the journey of aged Professor Isak Borg (Sjöström) as he travels by car to his old alma mater

Life As It Is: Miloš Forman on his Czech films: part one of an archival film-by-film interview

and she does not want to talk about her brother

the prose has its own indomitable precisions

35 mins): an in-depth interview about Henri-Georges Clouzot and The Wages of Fear

Winner of the Prize for Australian History in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2012

Ranging from France’s ancien régime and Britain’s empire building to present-day conflicts in the Middle East

is now remembered as 'the land of sushi'

Gysin's chance observation of random combinations of words led to the development of the cut-up technique by his friend William S

they preserved their traditional Dreamings and stories in paint

and Longinus

after the film