The director was a key figure of the New Taiwan Cinema, a nascent movement emerging from decades of state censorship and marital law. The retrospective “Chronicles of Changing Times: The Cinema of Edward Yang” will screen all seven his films March 29-May 5.
One of my favorite depictions of a child in all of cinema is an 8-year-old named Yang Yang in writer-director Edward Yang’s 2000 masterpiece, “Yi Yi.” Played by the adorable Jonathan Chang, the little boy wanders the periphery of the picture, never fully understanding why the grown-ups around him are so happy or sad, but doing his best to be of service. Yang Yang wants nothing more than to be useful, so he goes around with his camera taking snapshots of the backs of people’s heads.
You can see Yang’s engineering mind at work in how he arranges symmetries and thematic echoes, using the frame to keep us aware of the characters’ positions in a larger story he’s telling about the small parts we play in the lives of others that make up the world around us. Yang loves shooting actors with the vast city skylines behind them or catching their faces reflected in windows overlooking the blinking, bustling traffic.
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