New Taipei, June 4 (CNA) A film festival, "French Classics Rediscovered: Freedom For Us," opened Friday in New Taipei, providing the audience in Taiwan with a rare glimpse of the artistic freedom expressed in French cinema and society during the interwar period.
“This is a reel of film that is deteriorated and brittle. It will never be brought back to life,” Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (TFAI) chairman Tony Lan (藍祖蔚) said at the institute, holding aloft a canister from a collection of more than 18,000 Taiwanese movies, to help visiting lawmakers fully understand the race against time to find a new home for the institute’s film archive center.
Lan and his staff have for years been collecting and preserving copies of films made by Taiwanese directors from around the world in their archives.
However, as the institute’s hodgepodge of storage spaces are
A cinematic retrospective of wuxia (武俠, martial arts heroes) movies started on Friday at a public film institute in New Taipei City, showcasing early movies in the martial arts subgenre.
Selected movies being shown at “Wuxia Genre in Taiwan” include Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (臥虎藏龍), a swordplay film by Taiwanese-American director Ang Lee (李安) that won Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards in 2001, and The Assassin (聶隱娘), which won Hou Hsiao-hsien (侯孝賢) Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015.
The selection aims to showcase how wuxia films, which first became popular in Taiwan following the release of Dragon