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Top 10 films of 2015 — Films worth seeing again

December 18, 2015 By Andrew Hamlin

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Troubling. Challenging. Problematic. Call 2015 what you want, it had plenty of reasons to stay in bed with the covers pulled over your eyes. Here are 10 visions worth getting out of the house for (although, in fairness, you can ingest most of them through your television). 10.  “Cambodian Son,” directed […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2015, Andrew Hamlin, Cambodian Son, Chang Hyung-yun, Dave Boyle, David Oyelowo, Jafar Panahi, Kiichi Naka, Korean, Kosal Khiev, Masahiro Sugano, Northwest Asian Weekly, San Francisco, Satyajit Ray, Setsuro Wakamatsu, Shu Qi, Vol 34 No 52 | December 19 - December 25, japan

Jafar Panahi’s “Taxi”

November 13, 2015 By Andrew Hamlin

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly If Jafar Panahi’s new movie comes off less than perfect—or even if it seems perfect—one must consider the circumstances. The Iranian director’s own government banned him from making films for 20 years. In a statement issued earlier this year, Panahi replied that “Nothing can prevent me from making films […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2015, Andrew Hamlin, Closed Curtain, Crimson Gold, Iran, Jafar Panahi, Jafar Panhai, Northwest Asian Weekly, Vol 34 No 47 | November 14 - November 20

The Top 10 APA Movies of 2012

January 3, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly From close-set family dramas to burgeoning blockbusters, Asian films were as strong as ever this year. Here are my picks for the top ten Asian Pacific American films that played in Seattle this year. 10.  “The Secret World Of Arietty,” directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, starring Mirai Shida, Ryunosuke Kamiki, […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2012, 2013, Andy Lau, Aung San Suu Kyi, Deanie Ip, Eric Khoo, Jafar Panahi, Japanese Americans, Jiro Ono, Michelle Yeoh, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pol Pot, Seattle, Singapore, South Korea, Vol 32 No 2 | January 5 - January 11, Yoshihiro Tatsumi

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

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