Colon cancer has struck two luminaries of the film world on the same day. The other mustached movie critic Joel Siegel died on Friday from colon cancer in New York City. On the same day in Los Angeles, Taiwanese-American filmmaker Eward Yang passed away from the same illness. Born in Shanghai and raised in Taiwan, Yang moved to the US with his family for graduate school. After a stint working in microcomputers in Seattle, he decided to become a filmmaker. While Yang lived in the US, his films all took place in Taiwan. His last one, Yi-Yi, (2000) an intimate look at the year in the life of a middle class Taipei family won he Cannes film festival and is considered his masterpiece. A.O. Scott’s thoughts about the film perhaps fit the director as well:

As I watched the final credits of Yi Yi through bleary eyes, I struggled to identify the overpowering feeling that was making me tear up. Was it grief? Joy? Mirth? Yes, I decided, it was all of these. But mostly, it was gratitude.

# posted by Peter Bowen @ 7/01/2007 07:12:00 AM

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