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Seth Abramovitch
The Hollywood Reporter journalist/It Happened in Hollywood podcast host
Jo Addy
Soho House group film and entertainment director
Casey Affleck
Oscar-winning actor
Rutanya Alda
Author/actress
Stephanie Allain
Filmmaker
Victoria Alonso
Filmmaker/executive
Tony Angellotti
Publicist
Bonnie Arnold
Filmmaker/executive
Miguel Arteta
Filmmaker
Chris Auer
Filmmaker/film professor
John Badham
Filmmaker/film professor
Amy Baer
Executive
Matt Baer
Filmmaker
Lindsey Bahr
Journalist
Ramin Bahrani
Oscar-nominated filmmaker
Cameron Bailey
Toronto International Film Festival CEO/former film critic
John Bailey
Cinematographer/former Academy president
Bela Bajaria
Executive
Sean Baker
Filmmaker
Alec Baldwin
Oscar-nominated actor/author
Tino Balio
Author/film professor
Jeffrey Barbakow
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Michael Barker
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- 10/12/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Wayne Wang’s Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart, the filmmaker’s follow-up to his existential noir riff Chan Is Missing, again focuses explicitly on the Chinese American community in San Francisco. But where his debut feature found its protagonists constantly scrambling about the city, Dim Sum is set almost exclusively within, or just outside, the domestic space. Echoes of Ozu Yasujirō, specifically Late Spring, ring throughout Wang’s melodrama, whose tender, empathetic, and often funny examination of a loving, codependent mother-daughter relationship is reminiscent of Ryū Chishū and Haru Setsuko’s characters’ in Ozu’s masterwork.
Dim Sum, too, is a film of extended silences and often mundane conversations, and of emotions coursing beneath placid surfaces across settings where old customs collide with new ones. Wang makes evocative use of Ozu’s signature pillow shots throughout, reflecting elements of a Chinese community through shots of Chinatown and its...
Dim Sum, too, is a film of extended silences and often mundane conversations, and of emotions coursing beneath placid surfaces across settings where old customs collide with new ones. Wang makes evocative use of Ozu’s signature pillow shots throughout, reflecting elements of a Chinese community through shots of Chinatown and its...
- 8/17/2023
- by Derek Smith
- Slant Magazine
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The Academy Museum is dedicating November to a monthlong reflection on the history of Chinese depictions in cinema.
“Hollywood Chinese: The First 100 Years,” programmed by documentarian and longtime Academy member Arthur Dong, is a screening series of features and shorts – some classics, some obscurities – that mark both highlights and lowlights of how Chinese have been portrayed in film, particularly in the Western studio system. The series is an evolution of Dong’s 2007 documentary, which kicks off the series Nov. 4, and 2019 book of the same name.
“When people see a film like Hollywood Chinese, they’re really only seeing snippets. We really need to see the whole, because it’s not fair to the artists and the creators that we critique and examine the work based on 30 seconds,” Dong, who previewed his series Oct. 23 as part of his ongoing Hollywood Chinese exhibition at West Hollywood’s famous Formosa Café,...
The Academy Museum is dedicating November to a monthlong reflection on the history of Chinese depictions in cinema.
“Hollywood Chinese: The First 100 Years,” programmed by documentarian and longtime Academy member Arthur Dong, is a screening series of features and shorts – some classics, some obscurities – that mark both highlights and lowlights of how Chinese have been portrayed in film, particularly in the Western studio system. The series is an evolution of Dong’s 2007 documentary, which kicks off the series Nov. 4, and 2019 book of the same name.
“When people see a film like Hollywood Chinese, they’re really only seeing snippets. We really need to see the whole, because it’s not fair to the artists and the creators that we critique and examine the work based on 30 seconds,” Dong, who previewed his series Oct. 23 as part of his ongoing Hollywood Chinese exhibition at West Hollywood’s famous Formosa Café,...
- 11/4/2022
- by Rebecca Sun
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSSacheen Littlefeather: Breaking the Silence.Sacheen Littlefeather, Native American actress and activist, has died at 75. At the 1973 Academy Awards, she declined Marlon Brando’s Oscar for The Godfather on his behalf to condemn the treatment of Native Americans by the film industry and bring attention to the Wounded Knee protests.After five years in charge of BFI Flare and the London Film Festival, Tricia Tuttle has stepped down from her role as Festivals Director at the British Film Institute.Feminist film journal Another Gaze has announced a publishing imprint. Another Gaze Editions launches in late 2022 with My Cinema, a collection of writings by and interviews with Marguerite Duras, and a new translation of The Sky Is Falling, Lorenza Mazzetti's first novel.Recommended VIEWINGHunt, the directorial debut from popular South Korean actor Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game), has a trailer.
- 10/4/2022
- MUBI
by Cláudio Alves
Arthur Dong's documentary Hollywood Chinese, about the complicated history of Chinese and Chinese American lives on the big screen, serves as a starting point for one of the Criterion Channel's new collections. Spanning over a century of American filmmaking and 24 films, this curated program highlights issues of representation, racism, erasure, and more. At the same time, it serves as a chance to illuminate the cinematic contributions of marginalized artists who found unlikely success in Hollywood. They were people like the Chinese-American cinematographer James Wong Howe, Taiwanese director Ang Lee, and Hong Kong-born American actress and dancer Nancy Kwan.
In 1960, Kwan made her film debut in Richard Quine's The World of Suzie Wong, became an overnight star, and surely came closer to that elusive Best Actress Oscar nomination than most performers of Asian descent…...
Arthur Dong's documentary Hollywood Chinese, about the complicated history of Chinese and Chinese American lives on the big screen, serves as a starting point for one of the Criterion Channel's new collections. Spanning over a century of American filmmaking and 24 films, this curated program highlights issues of representation, racism, erasure, and more. At the same time, it serves as a chance to illuminate the cinematic contributions of marginalized artists who found unlikely success in Hollywood. They were people like the Chinese-American cinematographer James Wong Howe, Taiwanese director Ang Lee, and Hong Kong-born American actress and dancer Nancy Kwan.
In 1960, Kwan made her film debut in Richard Quine's The World of Suzie Wong, became an overnight star, and surely came closer to that elusive Best Actress Oscar nomination than most performers of Asian descent…...
- 8/23/2022
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
October’s here and it’s time to get spooked. After last year’s superb “’70s Horror” lineup, the Criterion Channel commemorates October with a couple series: “Universal Horror,” which does what it says on the tin (with special notice to the Spanish-language Dracula), and “Home Invasion,” which runs the gamut from Romero to Oshima with Polanski and Haneke in the mix. Lest we disregard the programming of Cindy Sherman’s one feature, Office Killer, and Jennifer’s Body, whose lifespan has gone from gimmick to forgotten to Criterion Channel. And if you want to stretch ideas of genre just a hair, their “True Crime” selection gets at darker shades of human nature.
It’s not all chills and thrills, mind. October also boasts a Kirk Douglas repertoire, movies by Doris Wishman and Wayne Wang, plus Manoel de Oliveira’s rarely screened Porto of My Childhood. And Edgar Wright gets the “Adventures in Moviegoing” treatment,...
It’s not all chills and thrills, mind. October also boasts a Kirk Douglas repertoire, movies by Doris Wishman and Wayne Wang, plus Manoel de Oliveira’s rarely screened Porto of My Childhood. And Edgar Wright gets the “Adventures in Moviegoing” treatment,...
- 9/24/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Growing up in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood during the 1960s, Chinese American filmmaker and author Arthur Dong saw plenty of people who looked like him in his community. But on-screen at the movies was a different story: Portrayals of Asian people leaned heavily into stereotypes or, worse, were outright offensive and with many roles played by white actors, a practice commonly referred to as “yellowface.”
“When I was in my early teens, I started seeing American-made movies with Chinese characters and really noticing how odd it was that their representation [was] in a way that was foreign to me and my experience,” says Dong, 65.
This curiosity would motivate Dong to make documentaries and films about the Chinese and Lgbtq communities. With his new book, “Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films,” out Oct. 17, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker dives deep into the history of Chinese representation in U.S. cinema, from...
“When I was in my early teens, I started seeing American-made movies with Chinese characters and really noticing how odd it was that their representation [was] in a way that was foreign to me and my experience,” says Dong, 65.
This curiosity would motivate Dong to make documentaries and films about the Chinese and Lgbtq communities. With his new book, “Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films,” out Oct. 17, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker dives deep into the history of Chinese representation in U.S. cinema, from...
- 10/17/2019
- by Audrey Cleo Yap
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Cybill Shepherd’s “Being Rose” gets acquired, Booboo Steward gets a lead role, Itvs reaches a Sundance milestone, and oilfields drama “The Iron Orchard” gets a release.
Acquisition
Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Rod McCall’s romance “Being Rose,” starring Cybill Shepherd, James Brolin, and Pam Grier, Variety has learned exclusively.
The film will be available in theaters and on demand on Jan. 4. Shepherd plays an ex-cop diagnosed with serious health issues who goes on a road trip in a wheelchair to search for her estranged son. Along the way, she falls in love with Brolin’s cowboy character, who has come to a crossroads of his own.
“I consider ‘Being Rose’ the crown jewel of my career,” Shepherd said. “Rod McCall, who wrote and directed the film is one of the finest directors I’ve ever had the privilege of working with.
Acquisition
Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Rod McCall’s romance “Being Rose,” starring Cybill Shepherd, James Brolin, and Pam Grier, Variety has learned exclusively.
The film will be available in theaters and on demand on Jan. 4. Shepherd plays an ex-cop diagnosed with serious health issues who goes on a road trip in a wheelchair to search for her estranged son. Along the way, she falls in love with Brolin’s cowboy character, who has come to a crossroads of his own.
“I consider ‘Being Rose’ the crown jewel of my career,” Shepherd said. “Rod McCall, who wrote and directed the film is one of the finest directors I’ve ever had the privilege of working with.
- 12/1/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
With the sorry state of things as the current generation seems to be running things into the ground around the world, I approached last night’s 45th Student Academy Awards presentation at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theatre with the dream that perhaps a new generation’s voices might be able to lead us out of the darkness into hope and enlightenment as only the best filmmakers can do.
I wasn’t disappointed. If this batch of movies and young filmmakers are any indication there may be reason for optimism in the future , at least as far as movies go.
In all my years covering the awards scene and the Oscars somehow I never managed to attend one of these ceremonies but I am so glad I finally did. The various 19 student winners have not only made pertinent and moving films (judging by the subject matters...
I wasn’t disappointed. If this batch of movies and young filmmakers are any indication there may be reason for optimism in the future , at least as far as movies go.
In all my years covering the awards scene and the Oscars somehow I never managed to attend one of these ceremonies but I am so glad I finally did. The various 19 student winners have not only made pertinent and moving films (judging by the subject matters...
- 10/13/2018
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Catherine Hardwicke became a trailblazer for female directors after leading “Twilight” to global success; however, ten years after the first film came out, she says there’s still not enough women working behind the camera.
“There’s still a lot of work to do because we’ve got to get to both sides of the camera; we’ve got to get more representation in all the categories,” Hardwicke Told Variety at the 45th Student Academy Awards ceremony held at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. “We’ve got a lot to say, and we’ve had a long time where we haven’t gotten to have our voices back there.”
Hardwicke, along with Patricia Riggen, Kumail Nanjiani and Arthur Dong, presented awards at Thursday’s Student Academy Award ceremony, which highlighted some of the best student films from around the world in animation, alternative filming, documentary filming and narrative filming.
“There’s still a lot of work to do because we’ve got to get to both sides of the camera; we’ve got to get more representation in all the categories,” Hardwicke Told Variety at the 45th Student Academy Awards ceremony held at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. “We’ve got a lot to say, and we’ve had a long time where we haven’t gotten to have our voices back there.”
Hardwicke, along with Patricia Riggen, Kumail Nanjiani and Arthur Dong, presented awards at Thursday’s Student Academy Award ceremony, which highlighted some of the best student films from around the world in animation, alternative filming, documentary filming and narrative filming.
- 10/12/2018
- by Nate Nickolai
- Variety Film + TV
Students from California Institute of the Arts, Florida State University, New York University and the University of Southern California won the gold medals on Thursday night at the 2018 Student Academy Awards, which were handed out at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Fsu student Shae Demandt won gold in the alternative category for “Reanimated,” CalArts’ Hanna Kim won in the animation category for “Raccoon and the Light,” NYU’s Mathieu Faure won in documentary for “An Edited Life” and USC’s Hua Tong won in narrative for “Spring Flower.”
Other awards in animation went to USC and Ringling College of Art and Design; in documentary to USC and the University of California, Berkeley; and in narrative to USC and Chapman University.
Also Read: 'Roma,' 'Cold War' Lead Academy's List of 87 Films in the Oscars Foreign Language Race
In the international categories, the gold medals went to Pierre Perveyrie,...
Fsu student Shae Demandt won gold in the alternative category for “Reanimated,” CalArts’ Hanna Kim won in the animation category for “Raccoon and the Light,” NYU’s Mathieu Faure won in documentary for “An Edited Life” and USC’s Hua Tong won in narrative for “Spring Flower.”
Other awards in animation went to USC and Ringling College of Art and Design; in documentary to USC and the University of California, Berkeley; and in narrative to USC and Chapman University.
Also Read: 'Roma,' 'Cold War' Lead Academy's List of 87 Films in the Oscars Foreign Language Race
In the international categories, the gold medals went to Pierre Perveyrie,...
- 10/12/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored its student winners from colleges and universities around the world at the 45th Student Academy Awards ceremony, held tonight at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. While this year’s winning students were previously announced, the gold, silver and bronze medal awards placement were announced at the ceremony, and presented to the winners by documentarian Arthur Dong, actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani and directors Catherine Hardwicke and Patricia Riggen.
The 2018 Student Academy Award winners are:
Alternative (Domestic Film Schools)
Gold: Shae Demandt, “Reanimated,” Florida State University
Animation (Domestic Film Schools)
Gold: Hanna ...
The 2018 Student Academy Award winners are:
Alternative (Domestic Film Schools)
Gold: Shae Demandt, “Reanimated,” Florida State University
Animation (Domestic Film Schools)
Gold: Hanna ...
- 10/12/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored its student winners from colleges and universities around the world at the 45th Student Academy Awards ceremony, held tonight at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. While this year’s winning students were previously announced, the gold, silver and bronze medal awards placement were announced at the ceremony, and presented to the winners by documentarian Arthur Dong, actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani and directors Catherine Hardwicke and Patricia Riggen.
The 2018 Student Academy Award winners are:
Alternative (Domestic Film Schools)
Gold: Shae Demandt, “Reanimated,” Florida State University
Animation (Domestic Film Schools)
Gold: Hanna ...
The 2018 Student Academy Award winners are:
Alternative (Domestic Film Schools)
Gold: Shae Demandt, “Reanimated,” Florida State University
Animation (Domestic Film Schools)
Gold: Hanna ...
- 10/12/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
At its core, “Crazy Rich Asians” is a romantic comedy with a happy ending, a genre I usually avoid. But I went to see it because I found Kevin Kwan’s book of the same title deliciously delightful in how it satirized the super-rich Singapore Chinese and because the movie has become a political and cultural phenomenon.
The movie has led the Hollywood box office since its release on August 15. That’s happy news for the creative and business forces behind the movie and book. These folks were undoubtedly anxiety-ridden about whether a major Hollywood film with an all-Asian cast would break through in an America that is only 6 percent Asian American. About 40 percent of the early movie audiences in the U.S. were of Asian descent.
Some Asian American journalists and critics have gone gaga over the film because it shows Asian and Asian American actors in leading and supporting roles.
The movie has led the Hollywood box office since its release on August 15. That’s happy news for the creative and business forces behind the movie and book. These folks were undoubtedly anxiety-ridden about whether a major Hollywood film with an all-Asian cast would break through in an America that is only 6 percent Asian American. About 40 percent of the early movie audiences in the U.S. were of Asian descent.
Some Asian American journalists and critics have gone gaga over the film because it shows Asian and Asian American actors in leading and supporting roles.
- 8/20/2018
- by William Gee Wong
- The Wrap
Netflix debuted “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson” on Oct. 6, but filmmaker Reina Gossett claims that the documentary’s director, David France, appropriated her idea and research for the project.
“David got inspired to make this film from a grant application video that Sasha [Wortzel] and I made and sent to Kalamazoo/Arcus Foundation social justice center while he was visiting,” Gossett wrote in a statement, shared today on Twitter by author and activist Janet Mock. “He told the people who worked there — I shit you not — that he should be the one to do this film.”
She then alleged that to make his film and secure a grant from the Sundance Institute and the Arcus Foundation, France pilfered her contacts as well as her work on advocacy group Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. Additionally, Gossett wrote that France convinced Vimeo to take down a video she’d uploaded of...
“David got inspired to make this film from a grant application video that Sasha [Wortzel] and I made and sent to Kalamazoo/Arcus Foundation social justice center while he was visiting,” Gossett wrote in a statement, shared today on Twitter by author and activist Janet Mock. “He told the people who worked there — I shit you not — that he should be the one to do this film.”
She then alleged that to make his film and secure a grant from the Sundance Institute and the Arcus Foundation, France pilfered her contacts as well as her work on advocacy group Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. Additionally, Gossett wrote that France convinced Vimeo to take down a video she’d uploaded of...
- 10/7/2017
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
Twenty-five members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who are of Asian descent — among them two-time best director Oscar winner Ang Lee and former members of the board of governors Arthur Dong, Don Hall and Freida Lee Mock — have sent a letter to the organization protesting "tasteless and offensive skits" about Asians that were featured on the 88th Academy Awards on Feb. 28, the same ceremony at which the Academy's alleged bias against blacks was a primary focus of host Chris Rock. The Oscar-night references to Asians that have members of the
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- 3/15/2016
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
You’re forgiven if you didn’t know much about the Denver Film Festival. Nevertheless, there’s a lot to talk about in the aftermath of the ten day affair. Highlights included very interesting industry panels (a new addition this year), a few films slated for a wide release, and a local debut for a major Colorado-produced film, The Boat Builder. In a state where most of the money for films was recently devoured by Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, it was nice to see a Colorado-made film get a warm reception.
I wasn’t able to finagle my way into every film I wanted to; such is the tragedy of any festival. But, I was able to see a variety of films big and small and elbow my way into a few industry panels. Below are brief reviews of every film I saw, from the incredible — to the barely edible.
I wasn’t able to finagle my way into every film I wanted to; such is the tragedy of any festival. But, I was able to see a variety of films big and small and elbow my way into a few industry panels. Below are brief reviews of every film I saw, from the incredible — to the barely edible.
- 11/27/2015
- by Max
- SoundOnSight
The Sundance Institute announced today the 29 films that will be receiving over $550,000 in grants from its Documentary Film Program and Fund. Since its inception in 2002, the Dfp has awarded more than $14.3 million in grants to more than 600 documentary films in 61 countries. This year's recipients were selected from 772 submissions from 88 countries around the world. The filmmakers encompass a broad range of experience, varying from first-time feature documentarians to established filmmakers such as Ed Pincus, Arthur Dong, and Mark Kitchell. "By providing financial support to nonfiction independent filmmakers, we seek to encourage the diverse exchange of ideas that is crucial to fostering an open society," said director of the Dfp Cara Mertes. "These 29 stories we’ve identified reflect both the global reach of Sundance Institute as well as our commitment to supporting artists at all stages of their careers and work." Since its inception the Dfp has awarded more than...
- 7/11/2013
- by Julia Selinger
- Indiewire
Sundance Institute today announced the 29 feature-length documentary films that will receive more than $550,000 (£362,000) in grants from its Documentary Film Program and Fund.
Among the director's receiving a grant is Scottish-based The Guga Hunters of Ness director Mike Day, whose as yet untitled film about the pilot whale hunters of the Nordic Faroe islands will receive production/post-production funding.
Grant recipients were selected from 772 submissions from 88 countries and include filmmakers working in Chile, Libya, Cuba, Cambodia and Pakistan as well as a broad range of experience, from first-time feature documentary filmmakers to Academy Award nominee Arthur Dong and veteran filmmaker Ed Pincus working with Lucia Small.
Director of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and Fund Cara Mertes said, “By providing financial support to nonfiction independent filmmakers, we seek to encourage the diverse exchange of ideas that is crucial to fostering an open society. These 29 stories we’ve identified...
Among the director's receiving a grant is Scottish-based The Guga Hunters of Ness director Mike Day, whose as yet untitled film about the pilot whale hunters of the Nordic Faroe islands will receive production/post-production funding.
Grant recipients were selected from 772 submissions from 88 countries and include filmmakers working in Chile, Libya, Cuba, Cambodia and Pakistan as well as a broad range of experience, from first-time feature documentary filmmakers to Academy Award nominee Arthur Dong and veteran filmmaker Ed Pincus working with Lucia Small.
Director of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and Fund Cara Mertes said, “By providing financial support to nonfiction independent filmmakers, we seek to encourage the diverse exchange of ideas that is crucial to fostering an open society. These 29 stories we’ve identified...
- 7/10/2013
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Drake Doremus‘ Sundance Grand Prize winner Like Crazy will be the opening night film for the 7th annual Film Independent Forum, according to the non-profit.
Taking place Oct. 21-23 at the Director Guild of America in L.A., Like Crazy (which Paramount Vantage opens on Oct. 28) will kick off the the three-day forum for emerging and established independent filmmakers that covers production, distribution, documentary and new media.
Speakers for the 2011 Film Independent Forum include:
Sara Bernstein, HBO Documentary Films
Laura Bickford, producer, Duplicity, Che
Josh Braun, Submarine
Lisa Callif, Donaldson & Callif, Llp
Juan Devis, Kcet Public Media
Arthur Dong, director, Hollywood Chinese
Jennifer Dubin, producer, The Perfect Family, Good Dick
Craig Emanuel, Loeb & Loeb
Christian Gaines, withoutabox.com and imdb.com
Matthew Greenfield, Fox Searchlight
Azazel Jacobs, director, Terri
Patty Jenkins, director, Monster, The Killing
Gina Kwon, producer, The Future
Greg Laemmle, Laemmle Theatres
Lisa Leeman, director, One Lucky Elephant
David Magdael,...
Taking place Oct. 21-23 at the Director Guild of America in L.A., Like Crazy (which Paramount Vantage opens on Oct. 28) will kick off the the three-day forum for emerging and established independent filmmakers that covers production, distribution, documentary and new media.
Speakers for the 2011 Film Independent Forum include:
Sara Bernstein, HBO Documentary Films
Laura Bickford, producer, Duplicity, Che
Josh Braun, Submarine
Lisa Callif, Donaldson & Callif, Llp
Juan Devis, Kcet Public Media
Arthur Dong, director, Hollywood Chinese
Jennifer Dubin, producer, The Perfect Family, Good Dick
Craig Emanuel, Loeb & Loeb
Christian Gaines, withoutabox.com and imdb.com
Matthew Greenfield, Fox Searchlight
Azazel Jacobs, director, Terri
Patty Jenkins, director, Monster, The Killing
Gina Kwon, producer, The Future
Greg Laemmle, Laemmle Theatres
Lisa Leeman, director, One Lucky Elephant
David Magdael,...
- 9/14/2011
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Fu Manchu for Mayor! Joe Dante explains.
Just look at this:
Click to make huuuuuuge.
Classic FemJep stuff, huh? (That’s females-in-jeopardy for you non-industry types.)
Karin Dor grapples with one of Fu Manchu’s dacoit assassins in the first and best of the sixties Fu Manchu series starring Christopher Lee, The Face of Fu Manchu, based on the Oriental arch-villain character created by Sax Rohmer in 1913 and continued in a series of novels through 1959.
“Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, … one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present … Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.” – Rohmer in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
For obvious reasons, this yellow peril stuff has gone out of fashion, to say the least, although Rohmer...
Just look at this:
Click to make huuuuuuge.
Classic FemJep stuff, huh? (That’s females-in-jeopardy for you non-industry types.)
Karin Dor grapples with one of Fu Manchu’s dacoit assassins in the first and best of the sixties Fu Manchu series starring Christopher Lee, The Face of Fu Manchu, based on the Oriental arch-villain character created by Sax Rohmer in 1913 and continued in a series of novels through 1959.
“Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, … one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present … Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.” – Rohmer in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
For obvious reasons, this yellow peril stuff has gone out of fashion, to say the least, although Rohmer...
- 9/13/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
hollywoodnews.com: Today Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, announced its 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival award winners at a brunch at Chaya Downtown. Audience award winners will be announced tomorrow afternoon at the Closing Night film, Despicable Me. The Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by The Los Angeles Times, with its central hub at L.A. Live, began Thursday, June 17 and will end on Sunday, June 27.
“There were thousands of movie fans at the festival this year, discovering new stories from our talented filmmakers,” said Film Independent Executive Director Dawn Hudson. “We are delighted to have the support of the Los Angeles film-going community for these films and their creators”
The two top juried awards of the Los Angeles Film Festival are the Narrative Award and Documentary Award, each carrying an unrestricted $50,000 cash prize, funded by Film Independent, for the winning film’s director.
“There were thousands of movie fans at the festival this year, discovering new stories from our talented filmmakers,” said Film Independent Executive Director Dawn Hudson. “We are delighted to have the support of the Los Angeles film-going community for these films and their creators”
The two top juried awards of the Los Angeles Film Festival are the Narrative Award and Documentary Award, each carrying an unrestricted $50,000 cash prize, funded by Film Independent, for the winning film’s director.
- 6/26/2010
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
HollywoodNews.com: The Los Angeles Film Festival has announced its jurors for the festival that kicks off today at L.A. Live.
The narrative jury consists of director Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, The Glass Shield),
screenwriter/producer Larry Karaszewski (Ed Wood, The People vs. Larry Flynt), and La
Weekly film critic Ella Taylor. The documentary jury is comprised of director/actress Karen
Moncrief (Blue Car, The Dead Girl), director Arthur Dong (Licensed to Kill, Hollywood
Chinese), and film critic and journalist Robert Abele. Writer/performer Sandra Tsing-Loh
(solo show “Mother on Fire,” novel If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now), actor Andrew
Garfield (Boy A, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus) and director Tommy O’Haver (An
American Crime, Ella Enchanted) round out the shorts jury.
“I’m so excited to have all these great talents join us at the Festival this year,” said Artistic
Director David Ansen.
The narrative jury consists of director Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, The Glass Shield),
screenwriter/producer Larry Karaszewski (Ed Wood, The People vs. Larry Flynt), and La
Weekly film critic Ella Taylor. The documentary jury is comprised of director/actress Karen
Moncrief (Blue Car, The Dead Girl), director Arthur Dong (Licensed to Kill, Hollywood
Chinese), and film critic and journalist Robert Abele. Writer/performer Sandra Tsing-Loh
(solo show “Mother on Fire,” novel If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now), actor Andrew
Garfield (Boy A, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus) and director Tommy O’Haver (An
American Crime, Ella Enchanted) round out the shorts jury.
“I’m so excited to have all these great talents join us at the Festival this year,” said Artistic
Director David Ansen.
- 6/17/2010
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
By Lisa Horowitz
The Los Angeles Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday night in downtown Los Angeles, has set the jurors for its narrative, documentary and shorts sections.
On the narrative jury are directors Charles Burnett ("Killer of Sheep") and Larry Karaszewski ("The People vs. Larry Flynt"), as well as La Weekly film critic Ella Taylor.
The documentary jurors are director-actress Karen Moncrief ("Blue Car"), director Arthur Dong ("Hollywood Chinese") and film critic-journalist Robert Abele.
Judging the short films will be writer-...
The Los Angeles Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday night in downtown Los Angeles, has set the jurors for its narrative, documentary and shorts sections.
On the narrative jury are directors Charles Burnett ("Killer of Sheep") and Larry Karaszewski ("The People vs. Larry Flynt"), as well as La Weekly film critic Ella Taylor.
The documentary jurors are director-actress Karen Moncrief ("Blue Car"), director Arthur Dong ("Hollywood Chinese") and film critic-journalist Robert Abele.
Judging the short films will be writer-...
- 6/17/2010
- by Lisa Horowitz
- The Wrap
Paul Muni, Luise Rainer in The Good Earth The ethnic controversy surrounding the casting of Gérard Depardieu as Alexandre Dumas in Safy Nebbou’s The Other Dumas reminded me of Arthur Dong’s 2007 documentary Hollywood Chinese, which discusses how Caucasian actors usually played major Chinese roles in American movies up to the not-too-distant past. Among those featured in Hollywood Chinese, whether in clips or as talking heads or both, are Paul Muni, Peter Sellers, Nancy Kwan, Luise Rainer, Katharine Hepburn, Turhan Bey, Joan Chen, Ang Lee, Christopher Lee, Sidney Toler, and, inevitably, Warner Oland, the most famous Dr. Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan (for those who know their film history). At a panel discussion held after the Los Angeles’ [...]...
- 2/20/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Directors Arthur Dong, Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, Chris Eska, Clark Gregg, Davis Guggenheim and Freida Lee Mock are among the participants in Film Independent's fourth annual Filmmaker Forum, which will be held Sept. 26-28 at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles.
Producer Ted Hope will deliver this year's keynote address at the three-day event, which focusses on the latest developments in independent filmmaking.
The forum will kick off on Sept. 26 with a screening of Rian Anderson's "The Brothers Bloom," followed by a Q&A with producer Ram Bergman and other members of the creative team and a reception in the DGA atrium.
On Sept. 27 and 28, panel discussions will be held on such topics as "Finding the Financial Sweet Spot"; "What's Up Doc?"; "The Micro Budget Film as a Calling Card; New Tools for Audience Building; The Cost of Cutting Corners: Production Dos and Don'ts"; "Keeping Your Documentary on...
Producer Ted Hope will deliver this year's keynote address at the three-day event, which focusses on the latest developments in independent filmmaking.
The forum will kick off on Sept. 26 with a screening of Rian Anderson's "The Brothers Bloom," followed by a Q&A with producer Ram Bergman and other members of the creative team and a reception in the DGA atrium.
On Sept. 27 and 28, panel discussions will be held on such topics as "Finding the Financial Sweet Spot"; "What's Up Doc?"; "The Micro Budget Film as a Calling Card; New Tools for Audience Building; The Cost of Cutting Corners: Production Dos and Don'ts"; "Keeping Your Documentary on...
- 9/18/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- In a bid to build word-of-mouth for its top picks, the Toronto International Film Festival is holding its first-ever advance press screenings in Los Angeles and New York this week.
A festival spokeswoman said Wednesday that the screenings are designed to give U.S. writers a head start reviewing Toronto titles before the festival's official opening Sept. 6.
Films unspooling at the Wilshire Screening Room in Los Angeles this week include Canadian director Richie Mehta's "Amal", a drama set in India that bows next week in Toronto.
"As a producer of a film, you hope that the press and industry will get out to see the film at the festival. That's not always the case, and the fact that Toronto is pro-active and screening 'Amal' ahead of the festival is a good thing," the film's producer David Miller said Wednesday.
Also screening in Los Angeles is Roger Spottiswoode's Rwandan drama "Shake Hands With the Devil", Avi Nesher's "The Secrets", Arthur Dong's "Hollywood Chinese" and Dutch director Tamar van den Dop's "Blind".
Toronto titles screening in New York this week include Nobuhiro Yamashita's "A Gentle Breeze in the Village", Iranian filmmaker Hana Makhmalbaf's "Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame" and Nina Davenport's "Operation Filmmaker".
It is hoped that the U.S.
A festival spokeswoman said Wednesday that the screenings are designed to give U.S. writers a head start reviewing Toronto titles before the festival's official opening Sept. 6.
Films unspooling at the Wilshire Screening Room in Los Angeles this week include Canadian director Richie Mehta's "Amal", a drama set in India that bows next week in Toronto.
"As a producer of a film, you hope that the press and industry will get out to see the film at the festival. That's not always the case, and the fact that Toronto is pro-active and screening 'Amal' ahead of the festival is a good thing," the film's producer David Miller said Wednesday.
Also screening in Los Angeles is Roger Spottiswoode's Rwandan drama "Shake Hands With the Devil", Avi Nesher's "The Secrets", Arthur Dong's "Hollywood Chinese" and Dutch director Tamar van den Dop's "Blind".
Toronto titles screening in New York this week include Nobuhiro Yamashita's "A Gentle Breeze in the Village", Iranian filmmaker Hana Makhmalbaf's "Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame" and Nina Davenport's "Operation Filmmaker".
It is hoped that the U.S.
- 8/30/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- I’m not sure what the previous years have churned out, but this year’s Real to Reel (Tiff's doc section) packs a wallop: either the film’s selected happen to have a muscle name among doc filmmakers attached or the docu subject will raise more than one eyebrow. Among the mix we have Phil Donahue’s Body of War – a doc that is coming to the fest with ample buzz, we have film critic Todd McCarthy’s documentary of a Cannes fest icon Pierre Rissient who makes the term 'cinephile' sound like a disease, and after a successful crossover into feature films, Kevin Macdonald looks into the mind of Gestapo commander Klaus Barbie, a.k.a the Butcher of Lyon. Here is the complete list:algerie, Histoires A Ne Pas Dire Jean-Pierre Lledo, AlgeriaFour Algerians of Muslim origin revisit the last years of their country's War of Independence, searching
- 7/31/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
In a move designed to aid documentary filmmakers in making fair use of copyrighted material, Media/Professional Insurance has launched an initiative that will allow filmmakers who draw on existing video or film clips to insure their work.
In order to indemnify filmmakers who take advantage of the fair use doctrine, Kansas City, Mo.-based Media/Professional is teaming with the Stanford Law School Fair Use Project, headed by executive director Anthony Falzone. Attorneys at the project will vet works-in-progress to advise filmmakers whether they are working within fair use guidelines. If a filmmaker later faces charges of copyright infringement, the Fair Use Project will provide counsel on a pro bono basis.
Michael Donaldson, a Los Angeles-based intellectual property attorney who first proposed the initiative to Media/Professional, also will work with the project. And in cases where the project is unable to offer pro bono counsel, Donaldson and other attorneys will be available to handle cases at favorable rates.
The initiative will be guided by an advisory board that includes docu filmmakers Kirby Dick, Davis Guggenheim, Arthur Dong and Haskell Wexler; professors Peter Jaszi and Lawrence Lessing; and Donaldson and Falzone.
Until now, insurers and film distributors have required docu producers to obtain permission, often at the cost of an expensive license, to use copyrighted material before they will provide insurance.
According to executives at Media/Professional, the cost of the new offering will run from about $200 to about $2,000, adding 10% to the price of a typical errors and omissions policy, which can run from about $4,000 up to as much as $25,000 for a riskier film.
In order to indemnify filmmakers who take advantage of the fair use doctrine, Kansas City, Mo.-based Media/Professional is teaming with the Stanford Law School Fair Use Project, headed by executive director Anthony Falzone. Attorneys at the project will vet works-in-progress to advise filmmakers whether they are working within fair use guidelines. If a filmmaker later faces charges of copyright infringement, the Fair Use Project will provide counsel on a pro bono basis.
Michael Donaldson, a Los Angeles-based intellectual property attorney who first proposed the initiative to Media/Professional, also will work with the project. And in cases where the project is unable to offer pro bono counsel, Donaldson and other attorneys will be available to handle cases at favorable rates.
The initiative will be guided by an advisory board that includes docu filmmakers Kirby Dick, Davis Guggenheim, Arthur Dong and Haskell Wexler; professors Peter Jaszi and Lawrence Lessing; and Donaldson and Falzone.
Until now, insurers and film distributors have required docu producers to obtain permission, often at the cost of an expensive license, to use copyrighted material before they will provide insurance.
According to executives at Media/Professional, the cost of the new offering will run from about $200 to about $2,000, adding 10% to the price of a typical errors and omissions policy, which can run from about $4,000 up to as much as $25,000 for a riskier film.
- 2/23/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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