Edward Yang

[beamish14]

If anyone’s interested in the piano scores in Yi Yi, I managed to catch a word with Kaili Peng (composer and Yang’s widow) today at Lincoln Center’s Edward Yang retrospective. She said they were hoping to release the scores this year or next.

Did you get the impression that this includes physical releases? I’d love to get some of those on vinyl

[AxeYou]

I only got a very brief exchange with her while she was leaving the theater. IIRC she said she'd been thinking about releasing them for some time and was now hopeful to make it happen this year or next year. But no specifics beyond that, sorry!

[dcsmith]

I have tickets for That Day on the Beach, Mahjong, and Confucian Confusion at BAMPFA in Berkeley, California which is showing all of Yang's movies next month if anyone wants to meet up for coffee before hand.

[AxeYou]

Broadway Circuit in Hong Kong claims to be screening a “4K restoration” of Yi Yi this month.

I haven’t been able to find any announcement of a 4K restoration anywhere. The current DCP & Blu-ray are based on an HD master from an interpositive scanned on the infamous Spirit Datacine. It’s definitely one of the softer-looking Blu-rays I have. I believe that old restoration is what Lincoln Center screened for their Yang retrospective in December/January. While I certainly hope there is indeed a new restoration, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a misprint.

[nicolas]

Broadway Circuit in Hong Kong claims to be screening a “4K restoration” of Yi Yi this month.

I haven’t been able to find any announcement of a 4K restoration anywhere. The current DCP & Blu-ray are based on an HD master from an interpositive scanned on the infamous Spirit Datacine. It’s definitely one of the softer-looking Blu-rays I have. I believe that old restoration is what Lincoln Center screened for their Yang retrospective in December/January. While I certainly hope there is indeed a new restoration, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a misprint.

I’m getting my hopes up that it’s a new restoration. I always found it suspicious that there was barely any talk of Yi Yi during the recent Yang retrospectives and restoration talk. It would be only fitting to tackle his final masterpiece as well together with his early films, so maybe they weren’t quite ready to release it.

[diamonds]

Broadway Circuit in Hong Kong claims to be screening a “4K restoration” of Yi Yi this month.

SIFF is now advertising this too, as part of a "series celebrating the 4K restorations of his five masterpieces"

[feihong]

Looks like Happinet in Japan is listing a blu ray of A Confucian Confusion from the new 4k restoration. YesAsia lists it as releasing April 3rd.

[andyli]

Broadway Circuit in Hong Kong claims to be screening a “4K restoration” of Yi Yi this month.

SIFF is now advertising this too, as part of a "series celebrating the 4K restorations of his five masterpieces"

Someone who attended the Hong Kong screening reported that it was more or less the same as the Criterion transfer, even starting with the Criterion logo. So don't get your hopes up.

[Tim]

Have people registered that a limited edition BluRay (1000 copies) of A Confucian Confusion was released by Nova in March? Just received my copy.

[feihong]

Waiting for mine to ship. I wonder how it stacks up next to the Japanese edition.

[andyli]

Probably not much difference, except that the Korean edition provides an English subtitle track.

Now that we're in the Edward Yang thread and the Cannes Classics announcement is due any day now, I'd like to share rumors that a major Yang is among the line-up in a brand new 4K restoration. You won't be disappointed.

[feihong]

Will it be Mahjong, finally?

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Eh? The TFAI's 4K restoration of Mahjong premiered in late 2023 in a Lincoln Center retrospective and even had a U.S. theatrical run last year alongside A Confucian Confusion. Weirdly its commercial rollout elsewhere has been much slower (for example, it just came out in Japanese theaters even though A Confucian Confusion has been out on Blu there for a year). Given the history of Yang's films I wonder if there was an unanticipated eleventh-hour rights snag.

[ryannichols7]

he didn't make many movies, aren't they all major in that case?

sounds like a 4K restoration of A One and a Two, though. that's how it seems to me, since we have Mahjong and A Confucian Confusion already (but not on disc..)

[feihong]

Eh? The TFAI's 4K restoration of Mahjong premiered in late 2023 in a Lincoln Center retrospective and even had a U.S. theatrical run last year alongside A Confucian Confusion. Weirdly its commercial rollout elsewhere has been much slower (for example, it just came out in Japanese theaters even though A Confucian Confusion has been out on Blu there for a year). Given the history of Yang's films I wonder if there was an unanticipated eleventh-hour rights snag.

Ah, I'm behind the times. I thought only A Confucian Confusion had ultimately been restored. I remember an announcement of the restoration of Mahjong, but when A Confucian Confusion came out I jumped to that conclusion.