Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang’s 1998 film, The Hole, is an eerie analog to the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns. It is available to watch until October 1 at the FACETS Virtual Cinema.  As we predicted not too long ago, the COVID-19 crisis is already beginning to produce a number of films directly inspired by the ongoing global pandemic. Hollywood is reopening and producers simply don’t know what to do with themselves. A heist film/romantic comedy starring Anne Hathaway called Lockdown? Why not! What is perhaps more interesting and assuredly less depressing than observing the modern state of quarantine filmmaking is exploring what came before