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It’s a volley! — Chinese American street volleyball documentary hits cable

May 14, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly Ursula Liang’s “labor of love,” 9-Man, which documents the Chinese American sport of street volleyball has received critical acclaim. We first covered the documentary in December 2012. Since then, the film and its makers have traveled the country showing it at various festivals and receiving awards. The film was […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News, Sports Tagged With: 2015, Asian Pacific Heritage Month, Best Documentary Feature, Chinese Americans, DVD, Director Ursula Liang, Directors Choice Award, Jason Cruz, Los Angeles, New York Times, Northwest Asian Weekly, Northwest Film Forum, Program Director Courtney Sheehan, San Francisco, Seattle Asian American Film Festival, Vol 34 No 21 | May 16 - May 22, World Channel, parking

“Man From Reno”

April 24, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Dave Boyle’s “Man From Reno” begins with a gray screen. Slowly, we see that the camera is aimed dead on at a car windshield in the rain, droplets snaking down. With the rain comes the fog, and through the fog comes a man, a car, another car, a sudden […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2015, Akira Kazuki Kitamura, Andrew Hamlin, Ayako Fujitani, Capitol Hill, Dave Boyle, Japanese American, Northwest Asian Weekly, Northwest Film Forum, Pepe Serna, San Francisco, Seattle, Sherlock Holmes, Soon Aki, Stephen Segal, Vol 34 No 18 | April 25 - May 1

Revisiting Taiwanese New Wave — Northwest Film Forum features retrospective of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s films

March 13, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Hou Hsiao-hsien, who’s been directing films since 1980, is considered one of the most prominent directors in the Taiwanese New Wave cinema movement.  The Northwest Film Forum, in collaboration with the Grand Illusion Cinema, presents a retrospective of the director’s work.  Northwest Film Forum programmer Courtney Sheehan took some […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2015, Andrew Hamlin, Austria, Brazil, Courtney Sheehan Hou Hsiao-hsien, Courtney Sheehan Seattle, Good Men, Good Women, Grand Illusion Cinema, NWAW, NWFF, Northwest Asian Weekly, Northwest Film Forum, Richard Suchenski, Taiwanese New Wave, Vol 34 No 12 | March 14 - March 20

Respect!: Celebrating Seven Samurai’s 60th anniversary

November 28, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ninette Cheng Northwest Asian Weekly On December 4, Seattle will be hosting a film screening of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai for its 60th anniversary.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2014, Akira Kurosawa, Criterion Collection, Ken Lee, Lesson Learned, Michael Weise, Michael Wiese Productions, New York Poets Theatre Company, Ninette Cheng, Northwest Asian Weekly, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle Film Institute, Seven Samurai, Vol 33 No 49 | November 29 - December 5

Adding music to silence — “Japanese Girls at the Harbor” gets a soundtrack

October 3, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Seattle’s musical/performance art troupe Aono Jikken Ensemble brings its musical and performing expertise to

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2014, AJE, Aono Jikken Ensemble, Blauvelt Everything, Esther Sugai, Hiroshi Shimizu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Michiko Oikawa, NWAW, Naho Shioya, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Ureo Egawa, Vol 33 No 41 | October 4 - October 10, William Satake Blauvelt, Yasujiro Ozu, japan

At the “Mekong Hotel”

December 7, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly “All characters appearing in this work are actual persons,” warns the fine print at the end of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new film, “Mekong Hotel.” “Any resemblance to other real beings, living or dead, is not coincidental.” It’s an odd, wry turn on the traditional disclaimer at the end of dramatic […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Reviews, At the Movies Tagged With: 2012, Andrew Hamlin, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Cannes Film Festival, Capitol Hill, Chatchai Suban, Laos, Mekong Hotel, Northwest Asian Weekly, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, Two Thai, Vol 31 No 50 | December 8 - December 14

Love “In the Family”

October 4, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY “In the Family,” Patrick Wang’s first feature film as writer and director, opens with a quiet scene of a family preparing for breakfast. The child in the family, Chip (played by child actor Sebastian Barnes), rushes from one place to another while chattering. He’s a charming little boy with […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2012, Andrew Hamlin, Capitol Hill, Director Wang, Director Writer Producer Patrick Wang, Frank Barrera, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, Sebastian Banes, Trevor St, Vol 31 No 41 | October 6 - October 12, language

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

Cultural and generational clashes abound in powerful “My Reincarnation”

February 23, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Jennifer Fox’s documentary film “My Reincarnation” begins enigmatically, with bodies floating in a pool of water and unidentified images shimmering, as if viewed through water.  We come to see that the water represents, among other things, separation between the father and the son, who form the core of the […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2009, 2012, Adzom Drugpa, Andrew Hamlin, Capitol Hill, Great Perfection, His Italian, Jennifer Fox, Khyentse Rinpoche, Khyentse Yeshi Namkhai, Namkhai Norbu, Northwest Asian Weekly, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, Vol 31 No 9 | February 25 - March 2, Watching Yeshi, language

Review of John Sayles’ “Amigo,” about a war not well-remembered by Americans

September 2, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The American director John Sayles has a long and distinguished history of tackling difficult projects addressing difficult aspects of life and history. His latest film “Amigo,” set in the Philippines, explores a time in history not well-remembered by most Americans, but which remains vivid to Filipinos …

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Reviews, At the Movies Tagged With: Filipino, Joel Torre, John Sayles, Lee Melly, Northwest Film Forum, Philippines, Rafael Dacanay, Seattle, Southcenter Mall, Unlike Colonel Hardacre, language

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