Lisa Yang and Chang Chen in A Brighter Summer Day (1991). A Brighter Summer Day: Since it premiered in 1991 only to be rejected by major film festivals, Edward Yang’s 236-minute feature (Criterion, $26.19 Blu-ray, $20.39 DVD) has been unavailable on home video in North America. Finally unveiled in American theaters two decades later and lauded by the few who attended this … [Read more...]
Theater’s Ingham bestows love of drama, language on students
By Tom Tracy With the aid of his daughter Francesca, who was assisting him on a recent Monday by queuing up the DVD player, Barrie Ingham introduced his students to a series of films clips from movies based on the writings of George Bernard Shaw. For Ingham, a veteran stage and television actor and Royal Shakespeare Company honorary associate, understanding great texts means … [Read more...]