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“Finding Mr. Right”

November 1, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly As reported elsewhere in the Northwest Asian Weekly, the breakout Chinese romantic comedy “Finding Mr. Right” earned a Golden Key Award from the City of Seattle. It’s also taken in more than $81 million in its native country, making it one of the biggest Chinese/Hong Kong cinematic moneymakers in […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2013, Andrew Hamlin, British Columbia, Chinese Hong Kong, Empire State Building, Finding Mr. Right, John Woo, New York City, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pine Street, Seattle, Vol 32 No 45 | November 2 - November 8, Wei Tang, Wen Jiajia, Xiubo Wu

COMMENTARY: Inarticulate immigrants and the language of guns

April 20, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Lam New American Media Mr. One L. Goh, 43, an immigrant from Korea who allegedly shot and killed seven people at a school in Oakland and wounded five others, may be the latest [in] a string of inarticulate men who became mass murderers in America. In April of 2009, Jiverly Wong locked the […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2009, 2012, 2013, Andrew Lam, Ang Lee, Chief Howard Jordan, Cho Sung-hui, Jiverly Wong, John Woo, Lang Lang, New America Media, New American Media, TV, United States, Virginia Tech, Vol 31 No 17 | April 21 - April 27, language

“Red Cliff” was cut in half, and it shows

November 25, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“Red Cliff” is John Woo’s first Chinese movie since 1991’s “Once a Thief.” His new film triumphs over the cutting of the footage which is almost as cruel as the cuttings of so many characters over the film’s running time. Conceived as a four-hour epic in two parts, it reaches the United States as a single film that runs two and a half hours.

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2009, Andrew Hamlin, Cao Cao, China, Chinese, Han Dynasty, Imperial Army, John Woo, Liu Bei, Northwest Asian Weekly, Red Cliff, Seattle, Sun Quan, Sun Shangxiang, United States, Vol 28 No 49 | November 28 - December 4, Zhuge Liang Takeshi Kaneshiro

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