Expect something different for the 2001 Golden Horse Film Festival (
"This year we have a very strong line-up of films," said Ivan Wang (
The committee announced Thursday that the 38th Golden Horse Awards will be held Dec. 8 at the newly built Hualien County Gymnasium. The Golden Horse Film Festival will begin Nov. 16 and will tour from Taipei, to Taoyuan, Hualien, Kaohsiung and finally to Hsinchu, staying in each city for 15 days.
The Hualien County tourism bureau will also plan sightseeing trips for visitors to the awards ceremony to take in Taiwan's east coast views and Aboriginal culture. Details of the tourism plan have yet to be announced.
Competition for the 38th Golden Horse award, the most prestigious Chinese-language film award, will be joined by Hou Hsiao-hsien (
For the film festival, the Golden Horse Executive Committee has chosen acclaimed films honored at the Berlin, Cannes, Rotterdam and Venice film festivals.
The "Panorama" section of the festival will include French New Wave veteran Jean-Luc Godard's In Praise of Love, which competed at this year's Cannes Festival. Also featured will be Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Kandahar. The film is a realist epic about an Afghan woman's journey returning to her landmine-riddled hometown. Also showing will be Clair Denis's controversial Trouble Everyday, which some critics see as a European woman version of Hannibal.
In the documentary section, the festival will be showing Chinese-American filmmaker Christine Choy's (
There is also a Japanese New Film section, which will introduce that country's newest talent Aoyama Shinji, with his movie Eureka. Japanese film master Shohei Immamura's Warm Water Under the Red Bridge will also be shown in Taipei.
Andy Warhol's 1967 classic Chelsea Girls and a documentary released last year about the leading actress in Chelsea Girls, Brigid Berlin, will also be shown. The documentary is called Pie in the Sky: the Brigid Berlin Story.
In addition, the festival will be making a tribute to 1930s star Marlene Dietrich.
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