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His proclivity for dramatising urban peregrinations have led many to compare Tsai, particularly early in his career, to Antonioni, though Tsai is individuated by, if nothing else, his sense of humour, a characteristic Antonioni can't be said to have had in overabundance

the Japanese tourist, wandering the Fu-Ho in search of succour or maybe just a suck

the films of Wang Bing, many of them durational epics, frequently shown abroad in a gallery context and seen in his native China mostly on circulated samizdat-style files

Schrader and Jones' old confrere Martin Scorsese generated a good bit of copy

Film history is borne along by technological innovation, and by ructions in business models, and by the whims of the viewing public as ineffably impacted by broader socio-historical-political trends