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Five frames from "Terrorizers," Edward Yang, 1986

By February 24, 2012January 12th, 202613 Comments

Terrorizers 1

Terrorizers #2

Terrorizers #3

Terrorizers #4

Terrorizers #5

With Cora Miao.

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13 Comments

  • Jeff McMahon says:
    February 24, 2012 at 10:18 am

    Is this newly avail­able some­where? Been try­ing to see it for the last year or so.

  • Glenn Kenny says:
    February 24, 2012 at 10:29 am

    Indeed, Jeff. A really beau­ti­ful Blu-ray disc/DVD combo from Taiwan Sony. Region-free. Incredible. Part of a series of newly restored clas­sics of Taiwan cinema of late last cen­tury. Easily obtain­able via YesAsia.

  • Brian says:
    February 24, 2012 at 10:53 am

    Not to ruin the beauty of these stills, but Glenn, I thought you would appre­ci­ate the latest howl­er from Jeff Well’s about Anatomy of a Murder’s aspect ratio:
    “The 1.85 ver­sion deliv­ers a feel­ing of con­fine­ment, obvi­ously, but Otto Preminger was­n’t an impres­sion­ist. He was a very matter-of-fact, point-focus-and-shoot type of guy.”
    ???

  • Glenn Kenny says:
    February 24, 2012 at 11:46 am

    Yeah, I think Jeff was in a com­pet­i­tion with him­self to see how many cat­egory errors he could pack into a single sen­tence there. Did very well, I’d say.

  • Joel Bocko says:
    February 24, 2012 at 1:36 pm

    What is going on in the fourth frame – is that a reflec­tion from off­screen left?

  • Ryland Walker Knight says:
    February 24, 2012 at 1:40 pm

    I HAVE TO BUY THIS DISC

  • Jason M. says:
    February 24, 2012 at 1:52 pm

    Good god, this is awe­some. Had no clue this was being released. Ryland, I feel sim­il­arly to you here.

  • Glenn Kenny says:
    February 24, 2012 at 2:56 pm

    @ JB: She pushes the win­dow out between frame three and four; catches reflec­tion of window-washer outside.

  • Lance McCallion says:
    February 24, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    Man, The Terrorizers is such a fant­ast­ic film all around. And yes, the Blu-ray remas­ter is a thing of beauty. I’s also strongly urge any­body inter­ested in this to check out a few of the oth­er films in that par­tic­u­lar remas­ter series which hap­pens to include Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s bril­liant Dust in the Wind, Tsai Ming-Liang’s nearly equally bril­liant Vive L’amour, and a couple oth­ers I haven’t got­ten chance to check out just yet. Though I’ve heard very good things about Chen Kuo-Fu’s The Personals.

  • Stephen Bowie says:
    February 24, 2012 at 5:20 pm

    Saw this recently myself, on loan from a gen­er­ous friend, and was as dazzled as every­body else.
    Just because I’m too lazy to fish around for it myself, does any­one have a full list of this Blu-ray series…?

  • Lance McCallion says:
    February 24, 2012 at 6:40 pm

    http://www.yesasia.com/us/taiwan-film-classics-remastered/1024227912–0‑0–0‑en/list.html

  • justin says:
    February 24, 2012 at 6:51 pm

    The Terrorizers was eas­ily the richest cine­mat­ic exper­i­ence I had last year. This post has me eager to revis­it it.

  • Driving Lights says:
    March 12, 2012 at 11:45 pm

    Hi! I was surf­ing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers!