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COMMENTARY: Tiphares vs Elysium — Welcome to the Age of Appropriation

August 23, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Lam New America Media Many years ago, before the age of cyperspace, I found a Japanese manga series at a specialty bookstore in San Francisco. Created by Yukito Kishiro, Battle Angel Alita is the story of a post apocalyptic world where humans scavenge to survive, many using robotic technology to replace lost limbs. […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2013, Alexandre Aja, Battle Angel Alita, East Asia, Francis Ford Coppola, Hong Kong, Information Age, John Sturges, Keanu Reeves, Kill Bill, Magnificent Seven, Maxine Hong Kingston, New America Media, Oliver Stone, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Ringo Lam, Sergio Leone, Sung-ho Kim, Vol 32 No 35 | August 24 - August 30, Young-hoon Park, Yukito Kishiro, japan

Not a film, but a triumph

April 12, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly “This Is Not a Film,” a documentary by co-directors Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, opens with a man seated at his breakfast table, preparing to eat. He takes a phone call, puts it on speaker phone, and seems to tense up in his shoulders, bending slightly to avoid looking […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2010, 2012, Andrew Hamlin, Ang Lee, Capitol Hill, Crimson Gold, Evin Prison, Francis Ford Coppola, Iran, Jafar Panahi, Northwest Asian Weekly, Northwest Film Forum, Paul Schrader, Seattle, Steven Spielberg, Vol 31 No 16 | April 14 - April 20, letter

Director Lu explores fall of Nanking

July 7, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Chinese director Chuan Lu graduated from the prestigious Beijing Film Academy and wrote his dissertation on Francis Ford Coppola, director of the “Godfather” saga. He summons all of his knowledge for his devastating third dramatic feature, “City of Life and Death,” a study of the Nanking Massacre. The still-shocking […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2011, American Minnie Vautrin Beverly Peckous, Asian Film Awards, Beijing Film Academy, China, Chinese, Cinematographer Yu Cao, Director Lu, Francis Ford Coppola, German Nazi, John Rabe, Nanking Massacre, Northwest Asian Weekly, Satoru Mizushima, Seattle, University District, Vol 30 No 28 | July 9 - July 15, Wei Fan, japan

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