Films Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang (Study Guide) - I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, Goodbye, Dragon Inn, Rebels of the Neon God (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, Goodbye, Dragon Inn, Rebels of the Neon God, What Time Is It There?, the Wayward Cloud, Vive L'amour, the Hole, Face, the River, the Skywalk Is Gone. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Chinese: Hi yn qun) is a 2006 Malaysian-Taiwanese romantic-drama film written and directed by Tsai Ming-liang. Lee Kang-sheng stars in a dual role as a brain-dead patient being cared for by a young woman (Chen Shiang-chyi), and as a homeless man who is severely beaten by a mob, and then found and cared for by a Bangladeshi migrant worker (Norman Atun). The Malaysian Censorship Board on 4 March 2007 decided to ban Tsai's latest film shot in Malaysia, I Don't Want to Sleep Alone based on 18 counts of incidences shown in the film depicting the country "in a bad light" for cultural, ethical and racial reasons. However, they later allowed the film to be screened in the country after Tsai agreed to censor parts of the film according to the requirements of the Censorship Board. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone was among several films commissioned by Peter Sellars' New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna in 2006, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The film had its world premiere on September 4, 2006 at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. It made its North American premiere on September 11 at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. It was also screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Pusan International Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the Festival of Three Continents, the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival the Deauville Asian Film Festival and the Hong Kong International Film Festival. It opened in genera...http: //booksllc.net/?id=14259000