Some Came Running: Five frames from "Terrorizers," Edward Yang, 1986

« I am the fly | Main | That's a pretty far-out lingo you're talking, but I think I can infra dig where you're coming from »

February 24, 2012

Five frames from "Terrorizers," Edward Yang, 1986

With Cora Miao.

Posted at 09:59 AM in Auteurs, Great Art, Images | Permalink

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00e5523026f58834016301f2cc28970d

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Five frames from "Terrorizers," Edward Yang, 1986:

Comments

You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.

Is this newly available somewhere? Been trying to see it for the last year or so.

Posted by: Jeff McMahon | February 24, 2012 at 10:18 AM

Indeed, Jeff. A really beautiful Blu-ray disc/DVD combo from Taiwan Sony. Region-free. Incredible. Part of a series of newly restored classics of Taiwan cinema of late last century. Easily obtainable via YesAsia.

Posted by: Glenn Kenny | February 24, 2012 at 10:29 AM

Not to ruin the beauty of these stills, but Glenn, I thought you would appreciate the latest howler from Jeff Well's about Anatomy of a Murder's aspect ratio:

"The 1.85 version delivers a feeling of confinement, obviously, but Otto Preminger wasn't an impressionist. He was a very matter-of-fact, point-focus-and-shoot type of guy."

???

Posted by: Brian | February 24, 2012 at 10:53 AM

Yeah, I think Jeff was in a competition with himself to see how many category errors he could pack into a single sentence there. Did very well, I'd say.

Posted by: Glenn Kenny | February 24, 2012 at 11:46 AM

What is going on in the fourth frame - is that a reflection from offscreen left?

Posted by: Joel Bocko | February 24, 2012 at 01:36 PM

I HAVE TO BUY THIS DISC

Posted by: Ryland Walker Knight | February 24, 2012 at 01:40 PM

Good god, this is awesome. Had no clue this was being released. Ryland, I feel similarly to you here.

Posted by: Jason M. | February 24, 2012 at 01:52 PM

@ JB: She pushes the window out between frame three and four; catches reflection of window-washer outside.

Posted by: Glenn Kenny | February 24, 2012 at 02:56 PM

Man, The Terrorizers is such a fantastic film all around. And yes, the Blu-ray remaster is a thing of beauty. I's also strongly urge anybody interested in this to check out a few of the other films in that particular remaster series which happens to include Hou Hsiao-Hsien's brilliant Dust in the Wind, Tsai Ming-Liang's nearly equally brilliant Vive L'amour, and a couple others I haven't gotten chance to check out just yet. Though I've heard very good things about Chen Kuo-Fu's The Personals.

Posted by: Lance McCallion | February 24, 2012 at 03:04 PM