{"id":74847,"date":"2019-10-05T08:01:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T12:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=74847"},"modified":"2019-10-29T11:03:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T15:03:20","slug":"cuny-tvs-city-cinematheque-launches-a-new-film-series-an-island-of-stories-recent-films-from-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=74847","title":{"rendered":"CUNY TV\u2019s City Cinematheque Launches a New Film Series: \u201cAn Island of Stories: Recent Films from Taiwan\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Taipei Cultural Center in New York is thrilled to announce its collaboration with CUNY TV\u2019s City Cinematheque to co-present a new five-part film series, \u201cAn Island of Stories: Recent Films from Taiwan,\u201d set to debut on Saturday, October 5, and Sunday, October 6, 2019, both at 9 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n

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Hosted by Jerry W. Carlson, professor of Cinema Studies at The City College and Graduate Center CUNY, this series features interviews with five Taiwanese filmmakers who are representative of post-Taiwanese New Wave cinema in the 1980s. They are Wei Te-sheng, Chung Mong-hong, Chang Tso-chi, Midi Z, and Yang Ya-che. The interviews will be accompanied by these directors\u2019 recent and well-known works that show how they adopt bold and fresh perspectives on film aesthetics and genre concepts to broaden Taiwan\u2019s cinematic landscape.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are proud to share this milestone series with the U.S. audience for the first time,\u201d said Su-pao Chang, director of the Taipei Cultural Center in New York. \u201cTaiwan is an island of stories owing to its complex history and cultural diversity. Through a selection of captivating Taiwanese cinematic works, this series aims to not only showcase veteran and rising Taiwanese filmmakers, but also deepen the general public\u2019s understanding about Taiwanese contemporary cinema, which is very much influenced by the cultural and historical exploration prominent in the works of Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, and Tsai Ming-liang\u2014iconic filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave movement. We hope Taiwan cinema will continue to offer a unique perspective for the contemporary world cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe five film selection \u2018An Island of Stories: Recent films from Taiwan\u2019 seeks to\u2026open the door to a treasure trove of films thrilling in their diversity and pure cinematic craft,\u201d said Jerry Carlson, producer and host of City Cinematheque. \u201cNo film, of course, can tell the whole truth about being Taiwanese. But taken together, the five movies project a beautiful prism, each color telling its own part of the story in its own light.\u201d<\/p>\n

Featured titles are Wei Te-sheng\u2019s CAPE NO.7, the highest grossing Taiwanese domestic film of all time; Chang Tso-chi\u2019s prizewinner Thanatos, Drunk; Chung Mong-hong\u2019s chilling psychological thriller Soul; Midi Z\u2019s tragic love story The Road to Mandalay; and Yang Ya-che\u2019s feminized crime drama The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful. For more info, visit https:\/\/tv.cuny.edu\/show\/citycinematheque\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Taipei Cultural Center in New York is thrilled to announce its collaboration with CUNY TV\u2019s City Cinematheque to co-present a new five-part film series, \u201cAn Island of Stories: Recent Films from Taiwan,\u201d set to debut on Saturday, October 5, and Sunday, October 6, 2019, both at 9 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74849,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74847\/revisions\/74849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}