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  • Taiwan has produced some major voices in world cinema, including such revered directors as Edward Yang and Hou Hsiao-hsien, as well as iconoclastic visionaries like Tsai Ming-liang.

    Taiwan to India Steve Dollar 2011

  • Hou Hsiao-hsien I hadn't really thought of in relation to the others, and I'm least familiar with his work, having only seen Flight of the Red Balloon and The Puppetmaster.

    Directors of the Decade 2009

  • Hou Hsiao-hsien I hadn't really thought of in relation to the others, and I'm least familiar with his work, having only seen Flight of the Red Balloon and The Puppetmaster.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • When I started making movies, the preoccupations of Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang affected me, resonated with my own.

    French Connections: Binoche Is Boss in Assayas Family 2009

  • See the new film by Hou Hsiao-hsien, the world-renowned Taiwanese auteur of demanding minimalist dramas?

    GreenCine Daily: Cannes, 5/17. 2007

  • The Taiwanese filmmaker Hsiao-hsien Hou took inspiration for this lovely, leisurely evocation of daily life in contemporary Paris from "The Red Balloon," Albert Lamorisse's children's classic that was released in 1956, yet never made it to videotape and is only now coming to DVD (as noted at the end of this column) in its full glory.

    'Sarah Marshall' 2008

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum introduces his list, topped by: "Two masterpieces by Hou Hsiao-hsien, both profound meditations on the past and present: Caf� Lumi�re and Three Times."

    GreenCine Daily: Lists, 12/22. 2006

  • Ho has never attempted to disguise the influence of Hou Hsiao-hsien - here, he even works with Hou's regular editor, Liao Ching-song - but the uninflected observation and musical sense of time and space go far beyond homage this time.

    GreenCine Daily: Hawaii Dispatch. 2006

  • Amidst varying styles and characters, director Hsiao-hsien strikes a nearly unparalleled note of eternal spiritual unity.

    2006: The Year in Film 2007

  • I was surfing the net today and stumbled across this interview from 2004 with several local leftists, including the renowned director Hou Hsiao-hsien City of Sadness that is by turns predictable:

    Archive 2006-01-01 Michael Turton 2006

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