Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Is cinema really dying? As movie houses close and corporations dominate, the art form is at risk of changing beyond recognition. In this wide-ranging and elegiac essay, Nick Pinkerton reflects upon Tsai Ming-liang's 2003 film Goodbye, Dagron Inn, a modern classic haunted by the ghosts and portents of a culture in flux. 

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The Decadent Editions is a series of ten books about ten films, one for every year of the 2000s.

Each a deep dive into a single film, the ten book-length essays shift attention away from entrenched classics and the churn of mainstream releases, spotlighting milestones of contemporary cinema. These idiosyncratic studies, by some of today’s most compelling cultural critics, are ambitious and insightful, yet playful and inviting.

Together they offer an eclectic view of cinema in the first ten years of the new millennium – a decade now ripe for reappraisal.

Author Nick Pinkerton
Cover and book design James Geoffrey Nunn
First edition 2021
Number of pages 240
ISBN 9783981918670
Language EN