From the Wall Street Journal’s Real Time Report article “Oscars Snub Asia as Taiwan’s ‘Seedig Bale’ Misses Out” (here):
East Asia’s cinephiles won’t have a local favorite to cheer during this year’s foreign-language Academy Awards race after the Taiwan epic “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale” (賽德克‧巴萊) failed to be nominated for best foreign-language film on Tuesday. Last week, the 4-1/2-hour film — based on the true story of Taiwan’s indigenous Seediq tribes who launched an armed uprising against Japanese rule in 1930 — was among nine films short-listed for the foreign-language category.
“Seediq Bale,” from director Wei Te-sheng (魏德聖), was the only film from the region to make the short list. Another high-profile blockbuster, mainland China’s “The Flowers of War” (金陵十三钗) from director Zhang Yimou (張藝謀) and starring Christian Bale didn’t make the short list. But “Seediq Bale” and “The Flowers of War” will compete at the Asian Film Awards in March, when both are up for best film and other nominations.
Netflix does not yet have “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale” is stock.
This blog posted a movie trailer for “The Flowers of War” here.
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