When Cinema Reflects the Times Hou HsiaoHsien and Edward Yang

From the 1980s to the 1990s New Taiwanese Cinema gained international attention for adopting a completely different approach to that of the commercial films which had preceded it This piece contrasts Hou Hsiaohsien and Edward Yang two rivals who were the driving force behind New Taiwanese Cinema The closing of a cinema invites us to reflect on society and the passage of history