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.
Photo courtesy of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee 照片︰金馬影展執行委員會提供
(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〉
The strongest earthquake to hit Taiwan in 25 years killed at least 16 people and damaged dozens of buildings, but the destruction was largely contained thanks to decades of preparedness work. Taiwan sits on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of intense seismic activity along the Pacific Rim, and — much like neighboring Japan — has a long history of catastrophic quakes. How does April 3 compare with other recent quakes? The April 3 earthquake, which measured 7.4 on the moment magnitude scale, was felt across Taiwan. It was the most severe since a 7.6 magnitude quake in 1999 killed
Around the time of the Dragon Boat Festival in June, the streets of Taiwan are filled with the delightful aroma of zongzi, a traditional snack made of sticky rice wrapped in leaves. The leaves are folded into a cone and then filled with sticky rice and other ingredients such as braised pork belly, peanuts and salted duck egg yolks. The filled leaves are then tightly tied with kitchen twine and ready for cooking. 每到六月端午時節,街頭巷尾就會飄出粽子的香氣。粽子是將糯米包進粽葉的傳統美食,先將粽葉折成圓錐狀塞入糯米,以及紅燒肉、花生、鹹鴨蛋黃等配料,用棉線綁緊後即可烹煮。 Dragon Boat Festival (n. phr.) 端午節 aroma
A: Artificial intelligence technology has been causing controversy lately: a student was caught cheating with AI to win the grand prize in an art contest. B: That’s so absurd. Does this mean that AI paints better than humans? A: Maybe. Luckily, the student was later disqualified. B: And more absurdly, it’s becoming more and more popular to use AI technology to “resurrect” people. A: Yeah, some netizens even posted videos featuring the late singer CoCo Lee, who was “resurrected” by them with AI software. A: 人工智慧的爭議不斷,有學生違規使用AI參加美術展,甚至贏得首獎。 B: 真誇張,這是不是代表AI比人類還強大? A: 或許吧,幸好得獎資格被取消。 B: 還有更誇張的︰讓死者重現的「AI復活」技術越來越熱門。 A: 對啊,還有網友製作已故歌后李玟「復活」的影片呢! (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
Everyone has seen a piece of fruit turn brown after being cut. Have you ever wondered why that happens? It is a common phenomenon that occurs due to a chemical reaction called enzymatic browning. The appearance, flavor and nutritional value of the fruit are all affected by this reaction. Some fruits, such as apples, pears, bananas, avocados and peaches, are more prone to enzymatic browning than others. These fruits contain high levels of an enzyme called polyphenol oxidase, or PPO for short. __1__ This causes a chain of chemical reactions that ultimately transforms the phenolic compounds into