LINKS :: TSAI Ming-liang

TSAI Ming-liang 蔡明亮 (born October 27, 1957, Ku Ching, Malaysia) = 51 yold in 2008

13 films / 12 screenplays (1st film: 1991/latest film: 2009)
INSPIRED BY : François Truffaut (Les 400 coups), Grace Chang, King Hu (Dragon Inn), Edward Yang?
C.C.C. films (strict model in red) : Visage (2009); Madame Butterfly (2008); It's a Dream (2007)v; I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006)v; The Wayward Cloud (2005)v; Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)v; The Skywalk Is Gone (2002)v; What Time Is It There? (2001)v; The Hole (1998)v; The River (1997)v; Vive L'Amour (1994)v; Rebels of the Neon God (1992)v; Boys (1991);
INFLUENCE ON : Lee Kang-sheng, Lisandro Alonso, James Lee?

Quick scroll : BIBLIOGRAPHY | BOOK | ONLINE ARTICLES | INTERVIEW | WEBSITES | DOCUMENTARY

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Visage / Face (2009) IMDb

• Pre-production Press conference in Paris (14 Oct 2008) video [Chinese]
  
• "Tsai's Visages: When Salome faced the Dharma" Translation by: Edwin Mak (Faster than instant noodles, Oct 2008) | at Unspoken Cinema | [CHINESE]
  
• Press kit - Cannes Festival (PDF, videos, photos) - trailer
  
• Face By: Jordan Mintzer (Variety, 22 May 2009)
  
• Film Review : Face By: Peter Brunette (The Hollywood Reporter, 22 May 2009)
  
• Cannes 2009 Press conference (05-23-2009) video 40' [FRENCH] [ENGLISH] [CHINESE] with Tsai Ming Liang, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Fanny Ardant, Laetitia Casta, Lee Kang-Sheng, Lu Yi-Ching, Vincent Wang, Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin, Henri Loyrette.
  
• Links By: David Hudson (IFC The Daily, 23 May 2009)
• In Favor of Imagery : Tsai's Visage Paints a Puzzling, Pretty Picture By: Eric Kohn (indieWIRE, 23 May 2009)
  
• Through the Looking Glass By: David Phelps (The Auteurs, 25 May 2009)
  
• "Visage" : la sensualité de Laetitia Casta, nouvelle Salomé By: Isabelle Regnier (Le Monde, 3 Nov 2009) [FRENCH]
  
• "Visage" By: François Lorès (Bonjour Cinéma, 17 Nov 2009)
• Fantasmas de cera. Visage (Tsai Ming-liang, 2009) By: Carles Matamoros Balasch (Transit, n°5, May-Jun 2010)
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Madame Butterfly (2008)

• "Crónica 5 : Mostrarse o desparecer" By: Fernando Ganzo (elumiere.net, Jul 2009) [SPANISH] [FRENCH]
  
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It's a Dream (2007) (segment in Chacun son cinéma) IMDb

• “We Are the World Cinema: Chacun son cinéma, ou, Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s’éteint et que le film commence.” By: Nicholas de Villiers (Senses of Cinema #45, 2007)
  
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I Don't Want to Sleep Alone 黑眼圈 Hei yan quan (2006) IMDb

• GreenCine Daily digest (9 May 2007)
  
• "2006 TIFF--Hei Yan Quan / I Don't Want To Sleep Alone" By: Michael Guillen (The Evening Class, 13 Sept 2006)
  
• "Sleepless in Malaysia. Tsai Ming-liang's goes home" By: J. Hoberman (The Village Voice, 1st May 2007)
  
• Review By: Louis Proyect (Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist, 1st May 2007)
  
• "Pays natal, matière plastic" By: Cyril Neyrat (Cahiers du cinéma, #623, May 2007) [FRENCH] - English
  
• "Unspoken Truth: Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone" By: Michael Koresky (indieWIRE, 8 May 2007)
  
• "Once Upon a Mattress, a Tone Poem Made Up of Moods" By: A. O. SCOTT (NYT, 9 May 2007)
  
• "Step Into Liquid: Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone" By: Keith Uhlich (The House Next Door, 9 May 2007)
  
• "Cutting for change" By: Allan Koay (TheStar online, May 14, 2007)
  
• "Sleep therapy: Robin Wood on Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone" By: Robin wood (Art forum, May 2007) cached part 1 - 2 - 3
  
• "Beyond the Horizon" By: Mark Cousins (Sight and Sound, July 2007)
  
• "“New Crowned Hope” films from Asia: Strengths and weaknesses" By: Richard Phillips (WSWS, 10 July 2007)
  
• "Dialogue vs. Duplicity: Notes on Syndromes and a Century and I Don't Want To Sleep Alone" By: Ryland Walker Knight (The House Next Door, 18 July 2007)
  
• "Butterfly Dream" By: Ian Johnston (Bright Lights film journal, Aug 2007)
  
• "Male gaze and body on I don't want to sleep alone" Translation by: Mei KO (柯鳥, 7 May 2008) in Chinese
  
• Yvette Biro, "Tender is the regard" Film Quarterly, Vol.61, n°4 (Summer 2008), P. 34-40 on Tsai's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone & JZK's Still Life
• "I Don't Want To Sleep Alone" By: Robin Wood (CineAction, #75, 2009)
  
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The Wayward Cloud 天邊一朵雲 Tian bian yi duo yun (2005) IMDb

• "Histoire d'Eau" By: Andrei Plakhov (FIPRESCI, 2005)
  
• "Berlinale diary 4" By: Filmbrain (Like Anna Karina's Sweater, 2005)
  
• Review By: Jeremy Heilman (Movie Martyr, 13 Jul 2005)
  
• Review By: acquarello (Strictly Film School, 2005)
  
• "How Sweet to Be a Cloud? Fancy and Fucking Collide in Tsai-Ming Liang's Latest" By: Ian Johnston (Bright Lights film journal, Nov 2005)
  
• "The 400 Blow Jobs" By: Helen Bandis, Adrian Martin, Grant McDonald (Rouge, 2005)
  
• "Scellé par un baiser" By: Stéphane Delorme (Cahiers du cinéma, #607, Dec 2005) [FRENCH]
  
• Discussion at a_film_by By: Craig Keller (a_film_by, 15 Dec 2005)
  
• "The Wayward Cloud" By: Adam Balz (Not coming to a theatre near you, 20 Dec 2005)
  
• "The Wayward Cloud" By: HarryTuttle (Screenville, 26 Dec 2005) part 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
  
• "The Round, the Flat, and the Impossible: The Wayward Cloud" By: Chris Fujiwara (Undercurrent, April 2006)
  
• "Watermelon-Eating Contest! Tsai Ming-liang's latest is wayward, indeed" By: Nathan Lee (The Village Voice, 13 Feb 2007)
  
• "A Tale of Love, Drought and Desperation" By: A. O. Scott (NYT, 23 Feb 2007)
  
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Aquarium (2004) segment in Bem-Vindo a São Paulo IMDb

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Goodbye, Dragon Inn 不散 Bu san (2003) IMDb

• Review By: acquarello (Strictly Film School, 15 Oct 2003)
  
• "Fantômes chinois à Nantes" By: Elisabeth Lequeret (Cahiers du cinéma, #586, Jan 2004) [FRENCH]
  
• "L'antre de l'adieu" By: Antoine Thirion (Cahiers du cinéma, #592, Jul-Aug 2004) [FRENCH]
  
• Review By: Daniel Kasman (d+kaz, 20 Sept 2004)
  
• "The Films in His Life" By: Nick Pinkerton (reverse shot, winter 2004)
  
• “Goodbye, Dragon Inn: Tsai Ming-liang’s political aesthetics of nostalgia, place, and lingering.” By: Kenneth Chan (Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 1.2, 2007)
  
• “Realism, intertextuality and humour in Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn.” By: Chris Wood (Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 1.2, 2007)
  
• Review By: Marc Raymond (Foreigner's guide to Film culture in Korea, 22 June 2008)
  
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The Skywalk Is Gone 天桥不见了 Tian qiao bu jian le (2002) IMDb

• "Goodbye City, Goodbye Cinema: Nostalgia in Tsai Ming-liang’s The Skywalk is Gone" By: Brian Hu (Senses of cinema, 2003)
  
• Review By: Andrew Schenker (Not in a theatre near you, 24 April 2008)
  
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What Time Is It There? 你那边几点 Ni na bian ji dian (2001) IMDb

• "Poisson" By: Charles Tesson (Cahiers du cinéma, #558, June 2001) [FRENCH]
  
• "Taipei-Paris, aller-retour" By: Erwan Higuinen (Cahiers du cinéma, #558, June 2001) [FRENCH]
  
• "A director treading water" By: Steve James (WSWS, 8 Sept 2001)
  
• "Et là-bas, quelle heure est-il ? de Tsai Ming-liang" By: Jean-Sébastien Chauvin (Cahiers du cinéma, #561, Oct 2001) [FRENCH]
  
• Review By: acquarello (Strictly Film School, 2002)
  
• "Een Taiwanese Don Quichote" By: Mike Lebbing (Filmkrant, #231, March 2002) [DUTCH]
  
• Review By: Tony Rayns (Sight and Sound, July 2002)
  
• "The European Undead: Tsai Ming-liang’s Temporal Dysphoria" By: Fran Martin (Senses of cinema, June 2003)
  
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Fish, Underground 与神对话 A Conversation with God (2001) IMDb

• "Cutting Edge and Missed Encounters—Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers" By: Bérénice Reynaud (Senses of cinema, May 2002)
  
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The Hole 洞 Dong (1998) IMDb

• "The hole" By: Jean-Marc Lalanne (Cahiers du cinéma, #525, June 1998) [FRENCH]
  
• "Les vies du chat" By: Olivier Joyard (Cahiers du cinéma, #534, April 1999) [FRENCH]
  
• Review By: acquarello (Strictly Film School, 2001)
  
• Matsumura, Tatsuya. “Internal Borders, or De-translating the Construction of Male Homosexuality: Tsai Ming-liang’s The Hole and the Imaging of ‘Okama’ in Contemporary Japan.” Paper presented at the QGrad Conference, UCLA, October 16, 2004.
  
• "Love Streams" By: Jeff Reicher (reverse shot, winter 2004)
  
• "Peering into the hole..." By: Fred Patton (DVD Beaver, ?)
  
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The River 河流 He liu (1997) IMDb

• "Histoire d'eau" By: Jean-Marc Lalanne (Cahiers du cinéma, #516, Sept 1997) [FRENCH]
  
• "City Without Tears" By: Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader, 2000)
  
• "Notes on Tsai Ming-liang's The River" By: Fiona A. Villella (Senses of cinema, 2001)
  
• Review By: acquarello (Strictly Film School, 2001)
  
• "Innerspace" By: Ken Chen (reverse shot, winter 2004)
  
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Vive L'Amour 愛情萬歲 Ai qing wan sui (1994) IMDb

• "Where Is the Love? Hyperbolic Realism and Indulgence in Vive L'Amour" By: Chris Berry. Island On The Edge: Taiwan New Cinema and After. Edited by Chris Berry and Feii Lu. Hong Kong University Press, (2005).
  
• "Tsai Ming-liang's Vive l'amour: Taipei's lonely souls" By: David Walsh (WSWS, 24 October 1994) cached
  
• "L'amour mon cul" By: Camille Nevers (Cahiers du cinéma, #490, April 1995) [FRENCH]
  
• “Alienation, Aesthetic Distance, and Absorption in Tsai Mingliang's Vive L'Amour” By: Richard Read (New Formations, #40, Spring 2000)
  
• Review By: acquarello (Strictly Film School, 2001)
  
• Review By: Andrew Schenker (Not coming to a theatre near you, 10 June 2008)
  
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Rebels of the Neon God 青少年哪吒 Qing shao nian nuo zha (1992) IMDb

• "Des torrents de larmes" By: Olivier Joyard (Cahiers du cinéma, #523, April 1998) [FRENCH]
  
• Review By: acquarello (Strictly Film School, 2002)
  
• “Only Connect” By: Nick Pinkerton (reverse shot, winter 2004)
  
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GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Reynaud, Bérénice, "Deux cinéastes d'Asie majeurs", Cahiers du cinéma, #490, April 1995 (on Kar-Wai Wong ; Ming-Liang Tsai) [FRENCH]
  
• Jousse, Thierry, "Cinéastes chinois d'aujourd'hui", Bérénice Reynaud ; Olivier Assayas ; Pierre-Olivier Toulza ; Antoine de Baecque, Cahiers du cinéma, #497, Dec 1995 (on Kar-Wai Wong ; Stanley Kwan ; Edward Yang ; Hsiao-Ming Hsu ; Hsiao-Hsien Hou ; Ming-Liang Tsai ; Kaige Chen ; Yimou Zhang ; Wen Jiang ; Yuan Zhang ; Ying Ning) [FRENCH]
  
• "Une onde mauvaise à boire. La trilogie taiwanaise de Tsai Ming-liang" By: Sandrine Marquès (revue Eclipses, #28, 1999) [FRENCH] on Rebels, Vive l'Amour & The River
• Joyard, Olivier, "Yang Kuei-mei, dansons sous le pluie"[sic], Cahiers du cinéma, April 1999, Hors série "Made in China" [FRENCH]
  
• Read, Richard, “Alienation, Aesthetic Distance and Absorption in Tsai Ming-liang's Vive l'amour”, New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory /Politics, 40, 2000
• Chiwen Liu, Kate, “Family in the Postmodern 'Non-Places' in the Films by Atom Egoyan and Ming-liang Tsai”, Fu Jen Studies: Literature and Linguistics, 34, 2001
• Jones, Kent, “Here and There: The Films of Tsai Ming-liang”, in "Movie Mutations" Ed. BFI, 1998-2002
• Joyard, Olivier, "Auteurs, classe affaires", Cahiers du cinéma, #568, May 2002 (on Elia Suleiman ; Abbas Kiarostami ; Kar-Wai Wong ; Hsiao-Hsien Hou ; Ming-Liang Tsai) [FRENCH]
  
• Chauvin, Jean-Sébastien, "Tsai réapparaît", Cahiers du cinéma, #573, Nov 2002, on The Skywalk is gone [FRENCH]
  
• Ciment, Michel “Ming-liang Tsai” in "Petite planète cinématographique. 50 réalisateurs, 40 ans de cinéma, 30 pays", Paris, Ed. Stock, 2003 [FRENCH]
  
• Matsumura, Tatsuya. “Internal Borders, or De-translating the Construction of Male Homosexuality: Tsai Ming-liang’s The Hole and the Imaging of ‘Okama’ in Contemporary Japan.” Paper presented at the QGrad Conference, UCLA, October 16, 2004
• Berry, Michael. “Tsai Ming-liang: Trapped in the Past.” Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers. New York: Columbia UP, 2005
• Tessé, Jean-Philippe, "Berlin, petite pêche", Cahiers du cinéma, #600, April 2005 (on Yoon-ki Lee ; Ming-Liang Tsai ; Alexandre Sokourov) [FRENCH]
  
• Frodon, Jean-Michel, "Tsai Ming-liang au Louvre", Cahiers du cinéma, #603, Jul-Aug 2005 [FRENCH]
  
• Frodon, Jean-Michel, "Venise impériale", Stéphane Delorme, Cahiers du cinéma, #616, Oct 2006 (on Zhangke Jia ; Ming-Liang Tsai ; Johnnie To ; Kiyoshi Kurosawa ; Shinji Aoyama ; Apichatpong Weerasethakul ; Garin Nugroho ; David Lynch) [FRENCH]
  
• Chan, Kenneth. “Goodbye, Dragon Inn: Tsai Ming-liang’s political aesthetics of nostalgia, place, and lingering.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 1.2 (2007)
• Wood, Chris. “Realism, intertextuality and humour in Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 1.2 (2007): 105–16.
• Martin, Fran. “Introduction: Tsai Ming-liang’s intimate public worlds.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 1.2 (2007)
• Balsom, Erika, "Saving the Image. Scale and duration in contemporary art cinema" CineAction, #72 (2007)
• Yvette Biro, "Tender is the regard" Film Quarterly, Vol.61, n°4 (Summer 2008), P. 34-40 on Tsai's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone & JZK's Still Life
  
• Saburaud, Frédéric, "Tsai Ming-liang : l'épure et la manière. Le cinéma a-minima 1" Trafic, n°72, hiver 2009
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BOOK on Tsai Ming-Liang

• Yee Chih-yen, “New discoveries, the second new wave : overview” Trans. Sam Ho, Taiwan, Ed. Variety Publishing, 1994 (on Ang Lee ; Ming-Liang Tsai ; Hsiao-Ming Hsu ; Kuo-Fu Chen)
• Rivière, Danièle. “Tsaï Ming-liang. Repérages” Trans. Andrew Rothwell "Scoutings". Dir. Jean-Pierre Rehm, Olivier Joyard & Danièle Rivière. Paris: Ed. Dis Voir, 1999. [FRENCH] [ENGLISH] | book review By: Tara Forrest | By: acquarello
  
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GENERAL ONLINE ARTICLES

• "In Taiwan, an Anti-Modern Poet Of Modern Anomie" By: Leslie Camhi (NYT, 24 June 2001)
  
• "Tsai Ming-liang Opens the Floodgates" By: Dennis Lim (The Village Voice, 26 June 2001)
  
• "Tsai Ming-liang: Cinematic Painter" By: Jared Rapfogel (Senses of cinema, 2002)
  
• "Of space and solitude. The MFA celebrates the genius of Taiwan’s Tsai Ming-liang" By: Chris Fujiwara (The Phoenix, 28 Feb 2002)
  
• "The European Undead: Tsai Ming-liang’s Temporal Dysphoria" By: Fran Martin (Senses of cinema, 2003)
  
• "Perhaps the Flood ..." By: Yvette Biro (Rouge, #1, 2003)
  
• "What Time Now?" By: Lesley Chow (Bright Lights film journal, ?)
  
• "Tsai Ming-liang at the Cinematheque" By: Donato Totaro (Off-screen, 30 April 2005)
  
• "Leaving the cinema: metacinematic cruising in Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn" By: Nicholas de Villiers (Jump Cut, 2007) part 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
  
• "Tsai-Fi" By: Adrian Martin (Tren de Sombras, 2007) | in [Spanish]
  
• "Tsai Ming-liang: Taiwan to KL" By: Sashin (Scribbles and Ramblings, 7 May 2007)
  
• "The Incomplete Tsai Ming-liang" By: Roger Clarke (Sight and Sound, Dec 2007)
  
• "Presence and Absence. Towards a Working Conception of Screen Characters" By: Andrew Schenker (Bright Lights film journal, Feb 2008)
  
• "Le cinéma de Tsai Ming-liang : au plus près de la vie" By: Philippe Dussol (Objectif cinéma, ?) [FRENCH]
  
• "New Urban Spaces : The films of Tsai Ming-Liang" By: Michelle Baitali Bhowmik (Journal of the Moving Image, #7, Dec 2008)
  
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INTERVIEW

• Interview By: Michel CIMENT (Positif, n° 410, 1995) [FRENCH]
  
• Interview By: Bérénice REYNAUD (Cahiers du Cinéma, n°516, 1997) on The River [FRENCH]
• "An interview with Tsai Ming-liang, Director of The Hole" By: ? (World Socialist Web Site, Oct 1998)
• "La clarté du présent" By: Emmanuel Burdeau & Olivier Joyard (Cahiers du cinéma, Hors série "Made in China", April 1999) [FRENCH]
  
• "Une histoire de famille" By: Olivier de BRUYN (Première, n°295, 2001) [FRENCH]
• Interview By: Philippe PIAZZOT (Le Monde, Aden, n°176, 2001) [FRENCH]
• Interview By: Erwan Higuinen; Trad. Thien See-chua (Cahiers du cinéma, #561, Oct 2001) [FRENCH]
  
• "Confined Space—Interview with Tsai Ming-liang" By: Nanouk Leopold (Senses of cinema, 2002)
  
• "Cities and Loneliness; Tsai Ming-liang's What Time Is It There?" By: ? (IndieWire, ?)
  
• "Creativity + A Search for Truth = Box Office Rewards?" By: Ann Translated (Compass magazine, May 2002)
  
• "Ghost Writer" By: Jeff Reichert and Erik Syngle, Translation by Shujen Wang (reverse shot, winter 2004)
  
• Berlin Press conference of Tsai Ming-liang, Lee Kang-sheng, Lu Yi-ching, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Bruno Pesery for The Wayward Cloud (16 Feb 2005) [video]
  
• "Lee Kang-sheng ne faisait jamais ce que je voulais" Rencontre Tsai Ming-Liang et Lee Kang sheng By: Jean-Michel Frodon (Cahiers du cinéma, #603, Jul-Aug 2005) [FRENCH]
  
• Interview Tsaï Ming-liang By: MAxime C. (Cinemasia, Dec 2005) [FRENCH]
• "2006 TIFF--The Evening Class Interview With Tsai Ming-Liang" By: Michael Guillen (The Evening Class, 14 Sept 2006)
  
• Tsai Ming-liang at Cannes' L'Atelier for Visages (France Culture, 2007) [FRENCH]
• Interview Tsaï Ming-liang By: Benjamin Dessaint (Cinemasia, 19 April 2007) [FRENCH]
  
• "L'esprit révolutionnaire. La diffusion selon Tsai" By: Antoine Thirion & Emmanuel Burdeau; Trad. Vincent Wang (Cahiers du cinéma, #624, June 2007) [FRENCH]
  
• "Of Human Bonding" By: Aysegul Koc (CineAction, #71, 2007, p.48)
  
• "How does arthouse and indenpendent cinema relates to commercialism?" Room 999, Jan 2009
  
• Salomé et le Dragon : un portrait de Tsai Ming Liang (France Culture, Champ Libre, 15 May 2009) [FRENCH] radio
  
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TEXT BY Tsai Ming-liang

• "On the Uses and Misuses of Cinema" By: Tsai Ming-liang (Senses of Cinema, 13 March 2011) 
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WEBSITES

• directortsai's diary [CHINESE] official blog
  
• Tsai Ming-liang's MySpace
• Great Directors profile (Senses of cinema, Darren Hughes)
• Wikipedia page
• Critical Culture downloads
  
• Ciné Club de Caen [FRENCH]
• Cinemasie [FRENCH]
  
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DOCUMENTARY ON Tsai Ming-liang

• Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1996/Stanley Kwan/Hong Kong) IMDb
  
• Fleurs dans le miroir, lune dans l'eau (2009/François Lunel/France) 
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