Hou's

Notable titles include Mr. Hou's "A Time to Live and a Time to Die," Mr. Tsai's 1992 debut, "Rebels of the Neon God," Fred Tan's "Rouge of the North" and the new film "Juliets," an omnibus in which three different directors reimagine Shakespeare.

Taiwan to India Steve Dollar 2011

Hou's next event will be Tradewise Gibraltar, the strongest open in Western Europe, starting on 24 January, where the top seeds include Ivanchuk and the England No1, Michael Adams.

Leonard Barden on Chess 2011

For the series, he has selected one of Mr. Hou's masterpieces, the historical drama "Good Men, Good Women" ( "Hao Nan, Hao Nu," 1995).

Surveyor of Our Landscape Kristin M. Jones 2010

Updates, 5/21: Hou's "mastery of film space remains assured as ever, even many miles from home, as does his work with actors," writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times.

GreenCine Daily: Cannes. The Flight of the Red Balloon. 2007

"Hou's version seems at first more conventional than the original, a full two hours feature film, with a distinct unifying plot focusing on a puppeteer and her son, plenty of dialogues between the characters, and a star, Juliette Binoche, to help put it all across," writes Dan Fainaru for Screen Daily.

GreenCine Daily: Cannes. The Flight of the Red Balloon. 2007

Several allegations, including messages from prison to mob cronies about guns and loanshark debts, as well as taking profits from real estate deals, were also on Hou's "Top 20 Reasons Gotti Never Withdrew."

Jerry Capeci: Junior Plays Hide and Seek as Gotti IV Goes to the Jury 2009

As the final fights play out, I ended up not cheering for Hou's nobility, but the nobility of his opponent, who say through the charade and did not play along.

Manly Man Movie Review: Fearless joshenglish 2007

Update, 6/2: "We loved this film, but while watching it couldn't help but think that there's a reason Hou's work rarely make much headway in the US," writes Alison Willmore at the IFC Blog.

GreenCine Daily: Cannes. The Flight of the Red Balloon. 2007

Update, 5/20: Emanuel Levy: "Hou's Café Lumière and the new work are linked thematically - both dealing with the hustle and bustle of life in big metropolitan centers - but they lack the rich texture, the intriguing subtext, the subtle poetic mood of his more indigenous works, half of which were shown in Cannes Festival, including his 1998 masterpiece, Flowers of Shanghai."

GreenCine Daily: Cannes. The Flight of the Red Balloon. 2007

"There's a clear parallel here with the Wong Kar-wai - both Hou and Wong are moving on from self-consciously retrospective works (Three Times and 2046) — but Hou's sensibility, grounded in concrete specifics of time and place, travels better."

GreenCine Daily: Cannes. The Flight of the Red Balloon. 2007