Any fan of Chantal Akerman, Jacques Tati, or Wong Kar-wai’s directorial work will adore Tsai Ming-liang’s 2003 masterpiece,Goodbye, Dragon Inn. The mesmerizing picture is a movie within a movie that takes place at an old Taipei cinema as it screens its final film, 1967’s wuxia classic Dragon Inn, in more or less real time. The director uses painterly framing and meditatively long takes as we follow the theater’s ticket woman, projectionist, and various audience members (including some gentlemen using the space as a cruising spot). Dreamlike, funny, deliberately slow, and melancholic in equal measure, Goodbye Dragon Inn’s evocative pleasures are immense. “Now all the more poignant for being streamed,” as the American film critic J. Hoberman said of its 2020 restoration, Ming-liang’s film is “a love letter to cinema and also cinemas.” —Spike Carter