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“The Moonlight in Jilin” at the Spot Taipei Film House
The Taiwanese movie The Moonlight in Jilin is currently playing at the Spot Taipei Film House. If you want to see it, you’ll have to move fast. It’s only playing until May 25th.
Tuesday May 22 – 18:40
Wednesday May 23 – 12:50 and 20:50
Thursday May 24 – 12:50 and 20:50
Friday May 25 – 11:00
So, we’ve established that you have to move fast if you want to see it. But …
Two More Film Festivals in Taipei this Summer
For those movie-lovers keeping track and chomping at the bit for more, there are two more film festivals on the horizon for Taipei.
The first is being put on by CatchPlay Classics and runs from May 25th to June 15th. I believe it is called World Cinema Highlights, and they are showing 23 official selections from famous film festivals around the world including Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, …
“The Golden Child” at the Spot Taipei Film House
The Golden Child is currently playing at the Spot Taipei Film House as part of their event We Are Family: Festival of New Immigrants. (See the schedule here.) Four films make up this mini-festival, and they all focus on the experiences of women from China, Vietnam, and Indonesia who come to Taiwan to marry Taiwanese men. The first two films I’ve seen were The Happy …
“Monkey the Great” at the Red House Theater
I’ve had my eye on the Red House Theater in Ximindeng for a long time. I didn’t even know it was there when I first dropped in on the Red House. For anyone that doesn’t know, the Red House is a beautiful historic building in the Ximending area. As you come out of the Ximen MRT station, you find yourself at a very large and …
My Little Honey Moon at the Spot Taipei Film House – Foreign Brides in Taiwan
I returned to the Spot Taipei Film House to watch the second of the four films about foreign brides in Taiwan. I read in an article in the Taipei Times that these four films together are part of the event “We Are Family: Festival of New Immigrants” at the Spot. Also in this article is the interesting statistic that there are more than 450,000 of …
Immigrant Stories at the Spot Taipei Film House
Four interesting movies are playing at the Spot Taipei Film House in the month of May. They are Taiwanese movies and they offer a fascinating look at the experience of foreign women who marry men in Taiwan. I had been told that there were no English subtitles, but the other day I happened to catch a trailer for one of them, and it had English …
Grass Mountain Chateau and Mt. Qixing – Taiwan
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Urban Nomad, Returning to Olympus, a Singing Contest & More!
A not-so-quick note about recent goings-on in Taipei: The Urban Nomad film festival has been underway for the past ten or eleven days. I believe Sunday (April 22nd) was the last day. I went to see The Taiwan Oyster on the opening night of the festival. It was an interesting night. The venue for the festival is one of the huge warehouse-type buildings at Huashan …