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04/01/06
Goodbye Dragon Inn (2004)
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Reviews Counted: 31 Fresh: 25 Rotten:6 Average Rating: 7.5/10
Rated: NC
Runtime: 83 mins
Theatrical Release: 08-10-2004
Synopsis: The subject of cinema, of the mix of loneliness and connection that is part of being in a movie audience, is the concern of this sad, beautiful, minimalist composition by Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang (WHAT TIME IS IT THERE?). The action takes place Inside a Taipei movie theater operated... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Lee Kang-Sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Chen Chao-Jung, Lu Yi-Cheng, Yang Kuei-Mei
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02/09/06
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Tsai Ming-Ling's bitter-sweet Goodbye Dragon Inn isn't easy to categorise: an exercise in cinematic minimalism, it's a ghost story, a deadpan comedy, and a lament for an earlier era of film-going.
10/06/04
Top Critic
There's a warm and meandering feeling to the film, although it will be completely lost on non-cinephiles, who'll find this unbearably dull!
11/13/03
Top Critic
Plays as a meditation on the deep feelings felt by the viewer and the filmmaker towards the movie experience.
08/24/05
It’s not a sentimental ode to the cinema like “Cinema Paradiso.” It’s more like “Cinema Purgatorio.”
03/10/05
A weird, funny, melancholy tribute to movies and movie-going, an opus for film geeks that rang my personal bell.
01/06/05
This is one of the most gorgeous and maturely composed movies you'll see this year.
10/29/04
Tsai is hugely popular with film critics, I believe, in part because film critics actually have something to do while watching his films. While the girl is limping down the hallway, we can take notes. Regular theatergoers? They can only watch helplessly.
10/15/04
... at once an elegy for the communal experience of cinema-going and another quintessentially Tsai portrait of loneliness and isolation.
10/14/04
Hypnotic in effect but ultimately rather irritating, Goodbye, Dragon Inn will entice those viewers who like oblique, allusive cinema.
10/06/04
The real star of the movie is the doomed movie house itself, and the dominant subtext is the emotional transaction between the viewer and his (or her) more vividly vicarious adventures projected on-screen.
10/01/04
What really sticks with you is the picture's aura of twilight vibrancy, and the deep pleasure Tsai takes in savoring subtle emotions that other filmmakers might not even register.
09/18/04
Though the film's deliberate pace is sometimes frustrating, it casts a quietly powerful spell and the memory of its images lingers provocatively long after they've flickered into darkness.
09/17/04
A droll gem that celebrates movie love with feeling and deadpan humor.
09/17/04
A loving tribute to cinema by Tsai Ming-liang, one of Taiwan's most accomplished and popular directors.
09/17/04
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