British label Second Run has announced that it will release on Blu-ray
Days/Afternoon: Two Films by Tsai Ming-Liang. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on October 21.
Tsai Ming-Liang has become one of the most profound voices in world cinema. His work traverses a wide spectrum of mediums: art and video installations, street performances, theater, painting, and, of course, cinema.
This 2-disc Blu-ray Special Edition brings together two of his sublimely contemplative works.
Days is Tsai Ming-Liang's sensuous meditation on solitude, delivered as a series of beautifully composed, delicately hued tableaux. The uneventful lives of two men unfold until they eventually cross paths, brought together out of loneliness and the need for intimacy.
Afternoon captures a wide-ranging, absorbing conversation between Tsai and Lee Kang-sheng, the actor, collaborator and muse who has appeared in all of Tsai's films, as they reflect on their lives, careers, friendship and identity.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Presented from new digital transfers from original materials, approved by the director
- A filmed interview with Tsai Ming-Liang
- Wandering (2021): a short film by Tsai Ming-Liang
- Tsai Ming-Liang in conversation with Tony Rayns at the East Asia Film Festival Ireland, 2019
- Teasers and Trailers
- 5.1 DTS Audio option on Days
- Booklet with a new essay by writer/curator So Mayer
- Cover image by Tsai Ming-Liang
- REGION-FREE