A Brighter Summer Day – Criterion Collection – Blu-ray

Description

Among the most praised and sought-after titles in all contemporary film, this singular masterpiece of Taiwanese cinema, directed by Edward Yang, was unavailable for years and much sought after. Set in the early 1960s, A Brighter Summer Day is based on the true story of a crime that rocked the Taiwan. A film of both sprawling scope and tender intimacy, this novelistic, patiently observed epic centers on the gradual but inexorable fall of a young teenager (Chang Chen, in his first role) from innocence to juvenile delinquency, and is set against a simmering backdrop of restless youth, rock and roll, and political turmoil.

Special Features
New 4K Digital Restoration, With Uncompressed Monaural Soundtrack, New Audio Commentary Featuring Critic Tony Rayns, New Interview With Actor Chang Chen,
Our Time, Our Story, A 113-Minute Documentary From 2002 About The New Taiwan Cinema Movement, Featuring Interviews With Filmmakers Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Sylvia Chang, And Tsai Ming-Liang, Among Others,
Videotaped 1992 Performance Of Yang’s 1992 Play Likely Consequence, New English Subtitle Translation, Plus: An Essay By Critic Godfrey Cheshire And A 1991 Director’s Statement By Yang