Metrograph screens Taiwan films in New York

2022/01/10

Taiwan films are being screened Dec. 31, 2021 to Jan. 13, 2022 at Metrograph in New York, according to the Ministry of Culture.
 
A total of 6 productions from Taiwan are taking center stage at the event as part of its Spectacles & Spirits series.
 
Headlining the Taiwan delegation for this year’s edition are “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” by Ang Lee, which won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film and received four awards in total at the 2001 Oscars; and “Dragon Inn” by King Hu, which was a blockbuster, setting box-office records in Taiwan, South Korea, and the Philippines in 1967, and was selected for Cannes Classics.
 
The other films are “Goodbye, Dragon Inn” by Tsai Ming-liang, “Executioners from Shaolin” by Lau Kar Leung, as well as “Raining in the Mountain” and “A Touch of Zen” by Hu, with the latter taking the Technical Grand Prize award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975 and putting the director on the world stage.
 
All of Hu’s digitally restored films have received additional global recognition in recent years, the MOC said. “Dragon Inn” and “A Touch of Zen” were selected for Cannes Classics, while “Raining in the Mountain” was selected for the first edition of the Permanent Festival of Restored Films, organized by the Venice Biennale in 2018.
 
Established in New York City in 2016, Metrograph is the ultimate destination for movie enthusiasts to experience a specially curated world of cinema, harkening back to the great New York movie theaters of the 1920s and the commissaries of Hollywood studio backlots.


Source: Taiwan Today (https://taiwantoday.tw/index.php)