八部電影，一部一大躍進，一部一座里程碑。楊德昌導演，如此閃亮傲人的非凡成績，如此銳利如鷹的大匠巨魄，卻又如此令人扼腕的短暫生命！壯志未酬，志士之大痛矣！ 謹以此書向楊導演致敬，向華人影壇致哀，向世界影史致憾。

Having largely given up on a career in film, Edward Yang had been working as a computer engineer for several years when he saw Herzog's "Aguirre, Wrath of God". Inspired to return to film, Yang, along with a handful of other filmmakers including the great Hou Hsiao_hsien, went on to found the Taiwanese New Wave of the early 1980s. Film critic John Anderson's Edward Yang offers a comprehensive overview of the work of the writer-director - already considered one of the most important filmmakers of the past twenty years - from his breakthrough feature "That Day, on the Beach" to the epic "Yi-Yi".Rooted in questions about what it means to be Taiwanese, Yang's films reveal the complexity of life within the island's patchwork culture. Anderson identifies the key narrative strategies, formal devices, moral vision, and sociopolitical concerns shot through Yang's films. He explains what makes these films so distinctive by pinpointing the specific qualities of Yang's style and outlook. John Anderson is the chief film critic for "Newsday". He also writes for the "Los Angeles Times", "L.A. Weekly", "Film Comment", "Billboard", "Washington Post", "The Nation", and more. He is the author of the book "Sundancing: Hanging Out and Listening In at America's Most Important Film Festival. A volume in the Contemporary Film Directors series

曾志偉詳盡個人專訪、黃精甫及陳可辛眼中的曾志偉、紀陶、朗天、張偉雄及林錦波的評論文章、以及在第32屆香港國際電影節放映的十套精選作品之詳盡介紹。

民国五十年，雷震案的骚动仍未平息，三月，缅泰“异域”的反共军被接运来台，五月，美国副总统詹森到访，韩国朴正熙发动军事政变，施明德因“台独联盟”被判无期徒刑，强烈台风贝蒂来袭，六月，十五日晚上十一点，台北牯岭街五巷十号后门发生少年情杀事件。 五十年，国民党政权长期滞台大势底定，许多许多不一样的中国人聚集到一起，然后发觉自己什么都没有，除了在苛酷的人性考验中仅存的一点尊严与梦…… ——写在封面上的话

2007年，台灣新電影重要旗手楊德昌因癌症病逝於洛杉磯，迄今五年，台灣始終未有企劃完善的專書詳實剖析其創作梗概。兼之，自1982年起始的「台灣新電影」至今恰屆滿三十年，近年台灣電影重又發光，於此之際，更有必要對於影響新一代電影人甚巨的影史浪潮做一回顧。 過去，楊德昌相關專文多從評論的角度切入，有別於此，本專書計畫深度專訪曾與楊德昌共事的若干電影人，藉由口述歷史，深入台灣電影的創作現場，留下可貴紀錄。這些原始素材一方面可作為社會大眾親近楊德昌作品的渠道；另一方面，也可作為學術研究的重要參考史料。 本書共計專訪下列曾與楊導共事之台灣電影專業人士：小野、吳念真、柯一正、余為彥、舒國治、杜篤之、廖慶松、陳博文、張惠恭、鴻鴻、陳以文、王維明、陳駿霖、金燕玲、張震、柯宇綸。訪問內容除以楊德昌電影為主軸，更旁及多位資深影人的從影小史，並從各自的專業出發，談及對電影的看法。