The producer of our edition of Henry King’s brooding western shares interesting facts he uncovered about the veteran director’s career, the origin of the film’s protagonist, and a Bob Dylan song inspired by its story line. Cat’s prepubescent singing voice has a feminine quality, and he is the featured vocalist at the many ice cream shop and school auditorium concerts. The film maintains an emphasis on medium and wide-angle shots, the characters moving through and about the school courtyards and neighborhoods, the space given emphasis over inserts and closeups. The producer of our edition of Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker’s landmark documentary shares what she learned about the galvanizing figures at the center of the film. A true violent event from Yang’s childhood inspired elements of the plot; the heartache and confusion every teenager experiences filled in the rest. While lengthy, the picture moves at a remarkable rate, unspooling a plot that involves a broad cast of characters, many of whom have their own evolving storylines. “A Brighter Summer Day” is Edward Yang’s ambitious crime epic about Taiwanese street gangs in the 1960’s. Though a film fan since childhood, Yang’s background was in engineering, which he had studied as an undergraduate in Taiwan. With the help of S’ir’s older sister, he transcribes the English lyrics of early American rock n’ roll songs, memorizing them phonetically. Last modified on Wed 14 Nov 2018 15.19 GMT. Yes, it’s four hours long, but this rarely seen Edward Yang film evokes the heartache and confusion of adolescence, like a Chinese Rebel Without a Cause, Wed 9 Mar 2016 11.00 GMT A Brighter Summer Day is a 1991 Taiwanese film directed by Edward Yang and starring Chang Chen. Get info about new releases, essays and interviews on the Current, Top 10 lists, and sales. While there are many moments of levity, they emerge realistically from the characters, often presented in a deadpan style. At the center of A Brighter Summer Day is S’ir (Chang Chen), a kid from a good home finding himself increasingly mixed up with the wrong crowd. The films showcased in our new collection of early works by Martin Scorsese are deeply influenced by the director’s life in New York City and the experiences of his family and friends. The 25-year wait since its initial production makes its first day of official availability in the US all the brighter. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. In 1970 he headed to the United States, earning a master’s degree in electrical engineering in Florida. Elvis sings the line, "Does your memory stray to a bright summer day," but the characters in the film mishear it as "a brighter summer day." • To celebrate the release of this beautifully observant, sprawling epic, producer Curtis Tsui shares some interesting tidbits that he discovered while working on the release and digging into the world of A Brighter Summer Day. In the midseventies he settled in Seattle, where he lived for several years and pursued a career in computers and software engineering. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. S’ir walks there one day with Ming (Lisa Yang) who is offered a screen test on the spot: the director is interested in what’s new. A Brighter Summer Day is itself in color, but it may as well be monochrome, as much of its action takes place at night or inside dimly lit interiors, and it’s not unusual for the characters to be confronted by light and its almost political implications. If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. This week, we’re proud to release our long-awaited 4K restoration of Edward Yang’s 1991 masterpiece A Brighter Summer Day. Yang spent a full year training and rehearsing with his largely nonprofessional cast before filming began. Brighter Summer Day (First Road Conversation) At the center of A Brighter Summer Day is S’ir (Chang Chen), a kid from a good home finding himself increasingly mixed up with the wrong crowd… Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. Tuesday, August 2, 2016 / No Comments Edward Yang’s A Brighter Summer Day is the kind of movie you don’t watch so much as luxuriate in. • That a violent teen chooses that most American of sporting gear, a baseball bat, to beat the snot out of someone surely means something in this context, but Yang isn’t going to bash you over the head with it. To put the fledgling performer at ease, Yang also cast Chang’s father, Kuo-chu Chang (at left in the photo above)—who was himself a professional actor—and his older brother Han Chang, who has also continued to act. Tanks occasionally roll down docile neighborhood streets with little discussion about where they are coming from or where they are headed. Yang’s contribution was about a teenage girl who becomes enamored with an older student her family has taken on as a lodger, and it established him as a key talent in the budding New Taiwan Cinema movement, among the likes of his fellow filmmakers Wu Nien-jen, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Chen Kuo-fu, and his eventual A Brighter Summer Day producer Jan Hung-tze. This has led to many teenagers forming street gangs. The term “Shakespearean” is too frequently cited to describe anything with a vast set of players, but it is a strong fit here. In fact, A Brighter Summer Day ’s Chinese title translates as “The Youth Killing Incident on Guling Street.” 3. Seeing this film reminded me of the first time I watched Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather”, Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America”, or Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas”. “It restored my sense of competence that I could be a filmmaker,” he said. Edward Yang is best known for his rich 2000 multigenerational melodrama Yi Yi: a One and a Two, and one can find some similarities between it and this earlier, massive film. Next door to the school is a film studio shooting a Chinese costume drama. That ends now, however, with the four-day run at Brooklyn’s BAMcinématek of a new 4K restoration followed by a highly anticipated Blu-ray and DVD release via the Criterion Collection. Though since its debut on the film festival scene in 1991 it’s been a difficult title to find, at least in the United States. A Brighter Summer Day notoriously shifts from a fraught, violent story about teenage gangs to a more introspective and family-oriented movie where the main character passively witness how his father is accused of espionage, his brother is in huge debt and his mother suffers in silence. It has never had a general American release. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. The “unknown little island”, as a character refers to their home, is doing the double duty of absorbing the new population and finding its feet as a political hot potato. Your IP: 212.83.147.176 (The title comes from a line in Elvis Presley’s song Are You Lonesome Tonight?). S’ir and his buddy Cat (who seems at first like a Milo Minderbinder-esque scoundrel, but actually has an artistic soul) slink around the place, yanking the occasional prop. The local people play Japanese music, to the consternation of their neighbors from the mainland, though the kids, just by anti-communist inertia, become increasingly obsessed with rock’n’roll.

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