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From Sep 13 to 21, there are a series of Taiwanese films showing at
Harvard Film Archive.
The Taiwan Stories of Edward Yang and Wu Nien-jen
For more information please visit the website
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2008septoct/yang.html
And please also see the forwarded message about a talk on 9/16 by
Director Wu Nien-jen
September 16, 4pm at Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, MA 02138
best,
renee
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This is a talk by the popular Taiwanese director Wu Nien-jen. Pleaseforward to all interested.. Thanks!
Dear Friends,
I'd like to invite you to a talk by Taiwan director/screenwriter/actor WuNien-jen 吳念�? who will be in town in conjunction with a wonderful fim series at the HarvardFilm Archive.
"The Taiwan Stories of Edward Yang and Wu Nien-jen" will be screening thisweekend and next. Details about the films and screening times can be found at HFAwebsite, linked here:
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2008septoct/yang.html
Wu Nien-jen will also be present for brief Q&As after the screening of hisfilm "A Borrowed Life" (Duosang) on 9/14, and after Yang's "YiYi" (he is the star of that movie),but the 9/16 talk will be a chance to have a more extended conversation with one of the majorarchitects of New Taiwan Cinema, someone who continues to be a central figure on the contemporary Taiwan cultural scene.
DATE AND TIME: September 16, Tuesday 4pm
LOCATION: Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
EVENT: A Conversation with Wu Nien-jen
hosted by the Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, HarvardUniversity
For more information, please contact [email protected]
More information on Wu Nien-jen:
(provided by the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office in Boston)
Wu Nien-jen
An accomplished man of many talents, Wu Nien-jen began his artistic career asa novel writer while he was still an accounting major in college. He laterjoined the Central Motion Picture Corporation in 1978 where he worked withdirectors Hou Hsiao Hsien and Edward Yang to create films which arecelebrated as the Taiwan New Wave Movement.
Wu has since written over 70 screenplays which were made into films includingHou's A City of Sadness and Dust in the Wind, King Hu's All the Kings Men,and Ann Hui's Song of Exile. He acted in 3 of Yang's films- YiYi, TaipeiStory, and Mahjong. Wu has also directed A Borrowed Life and Buddha BlessAmerica. He is a active today as a celebrated fixture on Taiwanese TV as anactor, a noted director of many stage plays and the star of many TVcommercials.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nien-Jen_Wu
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