I wrote too soon. Tsai Ming-liang’s wonderfully perverse “The Wayward Cloud” was not acquired by IFC Films’ First Take series, as I previously had written. It was actually Wellspring Films that made a ...

The first Tsai Ming-liang film I’ve disliked recycles its predecessors’ main actors (Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi), physical elements (water, Taipei), themes (loneliness, alienation), and ...