Yi Yi (A One and a Two) - Jeffrey Overstreet

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Yi Yi (A One and a Two)

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Through a Screen Darkly - Bonus Chapter - The Whole Wide World

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Through a Screen Darkly - Bonus Chapter - The Whole Wide World

[A consideration of Crash, Gosford Park, and Yi-Yi] - Eight-year-old Yang-Yang, in the film Yi Yi (A One and a Two) - U2, "When I Look at the World" A Crash-Course in Cultural Prejudice When writer-director Paul Haggis's film Crash won Best Picture at the 75th

Yi-Yi (A One and a Two) (2000)

2007 Update: In honor of the recently departed Edward Yang, let me nudge you toward picking up Criterion's glorious edition of the late filmmaker's masterful film Yi-Yi (A One and a Two). Here's a look back at my original response to the film from

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Tonight, the World has Lost a Great Artist

For the last few years, I have been hoping and hoping for another film by Edward Yang, who directed what has become one of the greatest treasures in my film library: Yi-Yi (A One and a Two). But tonight, Edward Yang passed away. Cancer. The news breaks my heart. He

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Yi-Yi (A One and a Two) from Criterion

If you haven't seen Yi-Yi (A One and a Two), you're in for a treat. It's been out on DVD before, but not like this. The full Criterion treatment has arrived, and I encourage you to check it out as soon as you can.