last night i finally found the time to sit down and watch tsai ming-liang's goodbye dragon inn. it's been a long time since i've seen his early films, but my feeling is that tsai's eye has really improved. just about every scene in this film is exquisitely shot. most of the film takes place in a theater while dragon inn plays. in the film there is a lot of gay cruising going on in the theater. peter told me this is a real theater known for just that sort of thing.

after seeing this i understand why this was packaged with the missing. this is really a film within the missing, as those that are missing in the missing show up in this film(lee kang-sheng touches on this in this interview, and now i'm not certain if they are just companion films or if it really is a film within a film). of the two films i prefer goodbye dragon inn though.