The title “Millennium Mambo” suggests a dance along the edge. And “millennium” is always a word that invokes drama and the potential for tumultuous finality. There’s none of that sort of drama in Hou ...

Metrograph Pictures is re-releasing the 2001 film, which follows a young woman’s restlessness, with a new 4K edition in theaters and at home. Taiwanese master of Ozu-esque dramas Hou Hsiao-hsien has ...

Slowly but surely the works of one of the greatest directors in cinema history are getting restored. On the heels of the recent Flowers of Shanghai revamp, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 2001 masterpiece ...

Taiwanese Drama. Starring Shu Qi, Jack Kao. Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. (Not Rated. 115 minutes. At the Opera Plaza) Not that anyone seems to have been clamoring for it, but "Millennium Mambo, " ...

A story about getting lost in a dream, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s “Millennium Mambo” opens with a vision of the sublime. With the camera trained on a woman walking in slow motion, a voice-over explains that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This clip, excerpted from early in the film, shows the kind of somnambulant atmosphere Hou conjures. Moments of wordless visual ...

Millennium Mambo is the first movie in director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 25-year career to be distributed theatrically in the U.S., and that’s reason alone to seek it out. It’s the story of Vicky, a modern ...

In the magnificent opening shot to Hou Hsiao-hsien's Millennium Mambo, the film's impossibly beautiful heroine (Shu Qi) floats gracefully down a long, open-aired corridor as a techno beat grows from a ...