Tsai Ming-Liang 2 interviews (on "Wayward Cloud" and "I don't want to sleep alone")(2007)

Last November, Tony Rayns interviewed Tsai Ming-Liang, one of the best living directors, about his last 2 flms:

"Wayward Cloud" and "I don't want to sleep alone"



Tsai is a Chinese born in Malaysia, and lived there "in a very simple small village" for 20 years after which he moved to Taipei. This, he says, had "a huge impact on [his] mind and psyche", perhaps later mirrored in his films. "Even today," says Tsai, "I feel I belong neither to Taiwan nor to Malaysia. In a sense, I can go anywhere I want and fit in, but I never feel that sense of belonging."[1]

He graduated from the Drama and Cinema Department of the Chinese Cultural University of Taiwan in 1982 and worked as a theatrical producer, screenwriter and television director in Hong Kong.

Tsai's honours include a Golden Lion (best picture) for Vive L'Amour at the Venice Film Festival in 1994, the Silver Bear/Special Jury Prize for The River at the 1997 Berlin International Film Festival, the FIPRESCI award for The Hole at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival and the Alfred Bauer Award and Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Achievement for The Wayward Cloud at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival.

All his films have featured Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-sheng.

More about Tsai Ming-Liang on the internet :

Imdb
Senses of Cinema
Wikipedia
An interview with Tsai Ming-liang 7 October 1998

















Nearly all of the films of Tsai Ming-Liang are available on Avax pages, posted by FNB47 (plus short 1 by myself) :

Tsai Ming-Liang on Avax