The 57th Golden Horse Awards will take place at the National Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall on Saturday. Director Chen Yu-hsun’s My Missing Valentine is leading the nominees with 11 nods this year, including Best Feature Film. Other nominees for this category are: Days Classmates Minus, Dear Tenant, and Hand Rolled Cigarette.
Hit movie Your Name Engraved Herein, which is the best-selling local film this year, also boasts five nominations for the Golden Horses, known as the Oscars of the Chinese world, including young sensation Edward Chen for Best New Actor. Chen is set to perform the theme song of the blockbuster movie at the ceremony with singer Crowd Lu.
The Lifetime Achievement Award is going to director Hou Hsiao-hsien, who shot to fame internationally by winning the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 with his classic A City of Sadness, which won him a Golden Horse for Best Director. Hou later won two more Golden Horses for Best Director with Good Men, Good Women and The Assassin in 1995 and 2015, respectively.
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(Eddy Chang, Taipei Times)
第五十七屆金馬獎頒獎典禮週六將在國父紀念館登場,導演陳玉勳的《消失的情人節》強勢入圍十一項,包括最佳劇情長片獎,是本屆大贏家。其它角逐該獎項的有︰《日子》、《同學麥娜絲》、《親愛的房客》、《手捲煙》。
金馬獎向來被視為華人世界的奧斯卡金像獎!而今年最賣座國片《刻在你心底的名字》亦榮獲五項提名,包括爆紅的主角陳昊森將角逐最佳新演員獎,還將在典禮上和歌手盧廣仲共同演唱該片主題曲《刻在我心底的名字》。
本屆終身成就獎則將頒發給知名導演侯孝賢,他於一九八九年以經典國片《悲情城市》,贏得威尼斯影展金獅獎從此享譽國際,並以該片贏得一座金馬獎最佳導演獎。之後更以《好男好女》、《刺客聶隱娘》,在一九九五年及二○一五年三度榮獲導演獎。
(台北時報張聖恩〉
A: Wow, three Taiwanese restaurants just won the 2024 “Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants” awards. B: Awesome! Which three restaurants? A: Taipei’s Logy at No. 22 and MUME at No. 34, and Taichung’s JL Studio at No. 33. B: Actually, there are many more great establishments in Taipei. How about other Asian cities? A: Singapore claimed nine spots this year, making it Asia’s new “food capital.” A: 2024「亞洲50最佳餐廳」名單揭曉了,台灣有3家餐廳上榜。 B: 好厲害,哪3家? A: 台北的Logy和MUME分獲第22和34名,台中的JL Studio獲第33名! B: 其實台北還有很多好餐廳,那其他的亞洲城市呢? A: 新加坡今年入選9家,可說是亞洲美食之都。 (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
Let’s explore another delicacy primarily known to Tainan locals: floating milkfish in thick soup. Despite its peculiar name, this dish is another Tainan specialty that showcases the popularity of milkfish, which is made into fish paste and served in thick soup. Unlike the version with tutuo fish, which also adds other ingredients to its thick soup, the floating milkfish version primarily features the “floating fish” itself in its thick soup, ensuring that the fish paste remains the star of the dish. 讓我們來探索另一道台南人熟悉的美食:浮水魚羹。這道菜名奇特的美食,再再展現了台南虱目魚料理的多樣。浮水魚羹是用虱目魚漿做成的羹品,雖然和𩵚魠魚羹一樣是羹湯,但不像𩵚魠魚羹會在湯中加入其他食材,而是讓虱目魚漿成為這道料理的主角。 peculiar (adj.) 獨特的;古怪的 The belly of a milkfish is considered the most
The practice of freezing embryos as part of in vitro fertilization (IVF) was thrown into chaos in Alabama this year, when the state supreme court ruled that such embryos should be considered children, exposing clinics to wrongful death claims in the event they are destroyed in the thawing process. In 2021, more than 80 percent of US IVF procedures involved the transfer of frozen embryos, according to a recent report by the US Department of Health and Human Services. HOW IS EMBRYO FREEZING USED IN IVF? IVF uses high doses of hormones to stimulate ovaries to produce as many eggs as possible. Once
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