"The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Canada used to cooperate with Cinematheque Quebecoise to host Taiwan Films Festivals and were welcomed by movie lovers here. We are hoping further cooperation in the future to bring more Taiwan movies to Montreal, the cultural capital of Canada," Taiwan's Representative to Canada Dr. David Lee said at the opening reception of Taiwanese Director Edward Yang's retrospective.
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Canada (TECO) and Cinematheque Quebecoise co-host Taiwanese Director Edward Yang's Retrospective in Montreal from April 2 to 14. Featuring six films of Edward Yang's, the event serves as a tribute to the late auteur while offering a tantalizing taste of made-in-Taiwan movies.
Dr. David Lee said that Taiwan is a small island country with only 23 million people. Even though Taiwan did not produce lots of films, it does foster quite a few outstanding directors. Edward Yang was one of them. Some of Taiwan's films were very famous around the world, especially in North America and Europe.
Ms. Diane Poitras, programming director of Cinematheque Quebecoise, said Edward Yang was one of the most popular directors in western countries. She said Cinematheque Quebecoise was honored by co-hosting Yang's retrospective with TECO and hopes to continue the cooperation between the two sides in the future.
The first film of the retrospective, "Taipei Story" (1985), was screened at 5 p.m., April 2 immediately after the opening reception. The turnout is successful. Ninety percent of the Cinematheque Quebecoise's theater was seated by enthusiastic Montreal audiences.
The other five works in the retrospective include "In Our Time" (1982), "That Day on the Beach" (1983), "The Terrorizer" (1986), "A Bright Summer Day" (1991) and "Yi Yi" (2000). Among these films, "A Bright Summer Day" and "Yi Yi" won Yang best director awards respectively at the Festival of the Three Continents in 1991 and the Cannes Film Festival in 2000; "The Terrorizer" won best feature film at the Golden Horse Awards in 1986 and best screenplay at the 1987 Asia Pacific Film Festival.
Edward Yang, one of Taiwan's leading New Wave filmmakers, was born in 1947 in Shanghai and grew up in Taipei. Yang was fascinated by film from an early age but put his celluloid aspirations to one side in order to pursue a high-tech industry career. Yang's break came in 1982 when he was asked to direct and write a short, "Desires" (also known as "Expectation"), as part of the seminal Taiwanese New Wave collection "In Our Time" (1982).
台灣駐加拿大代表李大維4月2日在楊德昌導演電影回顧展開幕茶會上表示，蒙特婁是加拿大的文化首都，駐加代表處希望與魁北克電影資料館合作，將更多台灣電影帶給蒙特婁電影愛好者。
李代表致詞表示，儘管台灣只有2300萬人口，每年生產的電影數量不算多，但仍培養出不少優秀的導演，在國際影壇上佔有一席之地。
李代表指出，楊德昌是很傑出的電影導演，也是台灣新電影最佳導演之一，他所執導的電影在北美及歐洲都很有很好的票房與口碑。這次影展總共將播映楊德昌導演的6部作品，相信一定會受到蒙特婁觀眾的喜愛。
駐加拿大台北經濟文化代表處與魁北克電影資料館合作，於2011年4月2日至14日舉辦台灣導演楊德昌電影回顧展，並影展首日舉辦開幕茶會，由李代表與魁北克電影資料館節目部主任Diane Poitras共同為影展揭幕。
Diane Poitras主任表示，楊德昌是很受西方國家歡迎的電影導演之一，該館很榮幸再度和台北代表處合作舉辦台灣電影展，也希望未來能繼續合作。
開幕茶會後隨即播放楊導演1985年的作品「青梅竹馬」。蒙特婁觀眾已接近滿座的出席率，證明了楊導演在當地受歡迎的程度。
這次影展共播楊德昌6部作品，包括「青梅竹馬」（1985）、「光陰的故事」(1982)、「海灘的一天」(1983)、「恐怖份子」(1986)、「牯嶺街少年殺人事件」(1991)及「一一」(2000)。其中「牯嶺街少年殺人事件」以及「一一」分別在1991年法國南特三洲影展和2000年坎城影展為楊德昌贏得最佳導演獎的殊榮。「恐怖份子」也在1986年奪得台灣金馬獎最佳劇情片獎、及1987年亞太影展最佳劇本獎，並獲台灣影評人協會票選為80年代十大國片第一名。
駐加拿大代表處過去曾與魁北克電影資料館合辦過蔡明亮及侯孝賢兩位導演作品回顧展，廣受好評與喜愛。這次再度合作，希望讓更多蒙特婁地區觀眾有機會認識楊德昌作品，並激發加國民眾對多元精采的台灣電影之興趣。
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