Programmed October 2025

Directed by Edward Yang

Featuring an introduction by critic Dennis Lim, part of Criterion’s Spotlight series Edward Yang made films on a monumental scale, bringing novelistic depth to sprawling stories of human connection, alienation, and self-discovery set in a rapidly changing Taiwan. Capturing intricate webs of criss-crossing social relationships with his masterful long takes, Yang’s films—including his crowning achievements, the epics A Brighter Summer Day and Yi Yi —reflect on both the universalities of the human condition and the specific social and cultural upheavals that transformed his country across the twentieth century.

Still watchable end to end