Shinoda Noboru @ Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival

[Stephen Cremin]

This year's Golden Horse Film Festival in Taipei (11/25-12/5) includes 
a retrospective of Shinoda Noboru.  Iwai Shunji, his regular 
collaborator, will be in Taipei in mid-November for the release of 
APRIL STORY, LOVE LETTER [re-release] and ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU on 
November 12, followed by a symposium on November 13-14.

That's a very interesting weekend in Taipei with only Asian films 
opening at the box office, including QUILL (Japan), GHOST IN THE SHELL 
2: INNOCENCE (Japan), CRYING OUT LOVE, IN THE CENTER OF THE WORLD 
(Japan), FREE AS LOVE (Taiwan) and GHOST (South Korea).  Last year, 
American films claimed a market share of approximately 85% against less 
than 0.5% for local films.

Stephen

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[TGHFF PRESS RELEASE]

2004 TAIPEI GOLDEN HORSE FILM FESTIVAL LINEUP ANNOUNCED

The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival is proud to announce the full 
lineup of its 26th edition. This year's festival will screen 113 
feature films from 20 countries and 78 short films from 18 countries 
between November 25 and December 5, 2004. Ticket sales are expected to 
reach 100,000, with all films presented at Warner Village Cinemas 
Taipei Hsinyi. A selection of approximately 40 films will also screen 
at Warner Village Taichung.

This year's festival is divided into nine sections: Masterpieces, 
Panorama, Windows to Asia, Made in Germany, Contemporary Chinese Films, 
Short Films & Animation, Filmmakers in Focus, 5th International Digital 
Shorts Competition and a program of the Chinese language films 
nominated for the 41st Golden Horse Awards. This year's Filmmakers in 
Focus pays tribute to Japanese cameraman Noboru Shinoda, Hungarian 
director Bela Tarr and Chor Yuen's adaptations of Ku Lung's martial 
arts novels.

Noboru Shinoda died on 22 June 2004, aged 52, from liver failure. At 
the time of his death, his feature film CRYING OUT LOVE, IN THE CENTER 
OF THE WORLD was at the top of the local box office charts; it has 
since grossed over US$75m in Japan and opens in Taipei on 12 November. 
Shinoda was an innovator who worked in close partnership with some of 
Japan's most exciting directors at the height of their careers, notably 
Shunji Iwai and Shinji Somai. The festival presents Shinoda's most 
recent collaboration with Iwai, HANA & ALICE, a work of extraordinary 
visual poetry.

Bela Tarr was born in Hungary in 1955, and began shooting films while 
still at school. He made his directorial debut, FAMILY NEST (1977), 
aged just 22. It was an important film that helped form the movement 
known as "documentary fiction". Tarr is still active as a filmmaker and 
is currently in production on his tenth film, THE MAN FROM LONDON. His 
regular composer, Mih?ly Vig, will attend this year's Golden Horse Film 
Festival.

Patrice Leconte and his composer ?tienne Peruchon will be present to 
introduce the festival's opening film, DOGORA. The festival closes with 
Olivier Assayas' CLEAN starring Maggie Cheung. International guests 
confirmed to date include Yoichi Higashi (The Crying Wind) and Yuji 
Nakae (Shirayuri Club Goes to Tokyo) from Japan, Quark Henares (Keka) 
from Philippines, Claude Nuridsany and Marie P?rennou (Genesis: The 
Very Beginning) from France, August Diehl (Love in Thoughts, Distant 
Light) from Germany, Jorgen Leth (The Five Obstructions) from Denmark 
and Andrzej Jakimowski (Squint Your Eyes) from Poland. Additional 
guests will be confirmed in the coming weeks.

On October 30, 3000 limited edition Rainbow Packages will go on sale at 
selected branches of Eslite Bookstore and FNAC for NT$2500. Each 
package comprises of 14 vouchers that may be exchanged for single 
tickets to any festival screening, subject to availability. Purchasers 
receive one-week priority allocation in all ERA Ticketing Systems 
before single ticket sales are available to the general public on 
November 13. Individual tickets cost NT$220; NT$190 for students.

For a full list of films in Chinese and English, please visit the 
festival website:
http://www.goldenhorse.org.tw/


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