A Brighter Summer Day (Criterion Collection) Release:A Brighter Summer Day (Criterion Collection) writes Stéphane Goldet in the

writes Stéphane Goldet in the album's booklet notes

The emotionally-charged guitar solos soar in full service to the songs

Though he is better known as a caricaturist and author of cartoons (regularly published throughout the last three decades by most of the major Czech daily newspapers)

New recordings of Goethe and Heine settings by a master Russian song-writer

the recordings are from the best possible sources and have been carefully edited

A Brighter Summer Day (Criterion Collection) Release:A Brighter Summer Day (Criterion Collection) writes Stéphane Goldet in theAmong the most praised and sought after titles in all contemporary film, this singular masterpiece of Taiwanese cinema, directed by Edward Yang, finally comes to home video in the United States. Set in the early sixties in Taiwan, A Brighter Summer Day is based on the true story of a crime that rocked the nation. A film of both sprawling scope and tender intimacy, this novelistic, patiently observed epic centers on the gradual, inexorable fall of a