Tickets for a special Greater Kaohsiung screening of the four-and-a-half-hour Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (彩虹戰士:賽德克巴萊) at the Kaohsiung Arena on Sept. 12 went on sale yesterday.
The film about the Wushu Incident — a violent anti-Japanese uprising in Taiwan in 1930 — has been nominated for the Golden Lion award at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
Originally titled Seediq Bale (賽德克巴萊), the epic is scheduled to be released in two parts nationwide next month.
Director Wei Te-sheng (魏德聖) said the idea of showing the film in a large indoor arena came from the many telephone calls he received from fans saying they wanted to see both halves of the movie in one sitting.
Wei then brought the idea of using the arena to Shih Jhe (史哲), the head of Kaohsiung’s Bureau of Cultural Affairs, who agreed to back the venture.
An IMAX screen will be put in the Kaohsiung Arena to convert it into a huge movie theater.
Alain Robert, known as the "French Spider-Man," praised Alex Honnold as exceptionally well-prepared after the US climber completed a free solo ascent of Taipei 101 yesterday. Robert said Honnold's ascent of the 508m-tall skyscraper in just more than one-and-a-half hours without using safety ropes or equipment was a remarkable achievement. "This is my life," he said in an interview conducted in French, adding that he liked the feeling of being "on the edge of danger." The 63-year-old Frenchman climbed Taipei 101 using ropes in December 2004, taking about four hours to reach the top. On a one-to-10 scale of difficulty, Robert said Taipei 101
Nipah virus infection is to be officially listed as a category 5 notifiable infectious disease in Taiwan in March, while clinical treatment guidelines are being formulated, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday. With Nipah infections being reported in other countries and considering its relatively high fatality rate, the centers on Jan. 16 announced that it would be listed as a notifiable infectious disease to bolster the nation’s systematic early warning system and increase public awareness, the CDC said. Bangladesh reported four fatal cases last year in separate districts, with three linked to raw date palm sap consumption, CDC Epidemic Intelligence
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US climber Alex Honnold left Taiwan this morning a day after completing a free-solo ascent of Taipei 101, a feat that drew cheers from onlookers and gained widespread international attention. Honnold yesterday scaled the 101-story skyscraper without a rope or safety harness. The climb — the highest urban free-solo ascent ever attempted — took just more than 90 minutes and was streamed live on Netflix. It was covered by major international news outlets including CNN, the New York Times, the Guardian and the Wall Street Journal. As Honnold prepared to leave Taiwan today, he attracted a crowd when he and his wife, Sanni,
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