“Cape No. 7” and “The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful” among films selected for program
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/09/26
By: Teng Pei-ju, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A New York television channel will broadcast widely-acclaimed Taiwanese
Taiwanese director Wei Te-sheng and U.S. producer Jerry Carlson (Source: Taipei Cultural Center/ CNA)
Taiwanese director Wei Te-sheng and U.S. producer Jerry Carlson (Source: Taipei Cultural Center/ CNA)
City University of New York’s CUNY TV will broadcast five award-winning Taiwanese films next month, as well as interviews with the directors, on its Saturday evening prime-time program “City Cinematheque, which plays classic and foreign films.
The special program, which is called “An Island of Stories: Recent Films from Taiwan,” will kick off its first week with Taiwanese director Wei Te-sheng’s (魏德聖) “Cape No. 7,” so far the highest-grossing Taiwanese film in history. It will be followed by the horror film “Soul,” directed by 2013 Golden Horse Awards Best Director Chung Mong-hong (鍾孟宏), and filmmaker Gilles Yang’s (楊雅喆) “The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful,” which was named the Awards' Best Feature Film in 2017.
Chang Tso-chi’s (張作驥) “Thanatos, Drunk,” which snatched Grand Prize at the Taipei Film Awards in 2015, and Midi Z’s (趙德胤) “The Road to Mandalay,” with which the Myanmar-born Taiwanese filmmaker made his name, have also been selected for for airing. CUNY TV is a non-commercial educational TV channel that reaches viewers throughout the New York metropolitan area.
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