News Summary

• Tsai Ming-liang's 1998 feature The Hole opens with a radio report about a mysterious virus with strange side effects that’s spreading across Taiwan.
• The Hole was originally commissioned by the Paris-based production and distribution company Haut et Court for the “2000, Seen By…” project.
• As The Hole tours the u.s. in a new 35mm print, Tsai spoke to me about developing the film's concept, his childhood love of musicals, and the similarities between his father and Lee Kang-sheng.