Is it time for a Best Films of the 2000s list yet? (Because if not, I'll be reposting this at the end of 2010, and removing the two films below from 2000.) The list will probably undergo numerous revisions -- obviously ...Read More
The first impulse is always one of love. The more films I saw, specifically local independent films, the more I wanted to see. The deeper I got, the more responsibility I felt, the stronger the need to do something, to share ...Read More
Lee Isaac Chung's Munyurangabo (2007) has been one of the more critically-acclaimed releases of the year so far, and the rave reviews alone should have spurred viewers into theaters. But surely its “exotic” provenance – made by a Korean American ...Read More
The most-read page on this blog, which I find kind of odd, is the About page. (Second is my entry on Slumdog Millionaire.) The About page is something that Wordpress attaches automatically when you make a page for the first ...Read More
Oh how I love the SF International Film Festival. What I'll be watching, in alphabetical order (and I'd probably add more if it weren't for a vacation, commuter insanity, and a 9-5 job in the way): - Chiang Hsiu-chiung, Artemisia - Dante ...Read More
The 27th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival schedule is finally out! But a quick Filipino film-related aside first: You can get a good heady dose of Filipino cinema the weekend of March 20, as Brillante Mendoza's Serbis is ...Read More
Readers who know me only through this blog (and there aren't that many readers anyhow) may be interested in my old blog, The Wily Filipino, which I've just imported into WordPress. Almost all of my movie-related entries have been imported ...Read More
A brief pause from the movie reviews while I geek out and set up my tentative East Bay-biased big-screen schedule for the next two months: Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley will be premiering Che and Waltz with Bashir on Jan. 16; Scott ...Read More
I have an entry on the director Wayne Wang on one of my other blogs, American Pop. It's called The Saga of Wayne Wang and will probably inaugurate a whole series of reviews (if not a full-on retrospective) of his ...Read More
Setting: Express checkout lane, Safeway. Woman at register [eyeing my bottle of 2006 Coppola Pinot Noir]: Now, sir, are you buying that because you like drinking it, or just to taste it? Me: I've never had it. Woman: How do you pronounce that? ...Read More