Made as Taiwan slowly reconnected with the world, Edward Yang De-chang's 1986 film offers a damning critique of the alienation bubbling underneath Taipei. One of the key films of the Taiwanese New Wave, The Terrorisers revolves around four lonely characters grappling with the emptiness of their lives: a doctor craving a promotion, his author-wife struggling with writer's block, a small-time Eurasian hoodlum, and a young photographer recording the chaos around him. Bringing them together in brutal fashion is the cold, urbanised landscape of Taipei. Yang's film remaps Taipei, to quote cultural theorist Fredric Jameson. Screened in a restored version as part of the Summer International Film Festival. Aug 21, 9.30pm, The Grand Cinema.