April 13, 2006 ISSUE
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COVER STORY
An Overseas Report: Fall Fashion, European Style
APA turns its eye to Europe for a double dosage of fall fashion. Read about the most exciting and refined collections by Asian designers in London and Paris. Why? Because frankly, the British are coming -- up in the fashion world that is -- and because there are few things sweeter than French dressing.
A Promise Left Unfufilled
Cruelly dropped by its former distributor, the notoriously fickle Weinstein Brothers, Chen Kaige's much-ballyhooed The Promise finds new life in the United States theatrical circuit. If only we could say the same about the film...
Shooting for Gold: A Silver Lake Film Festival Overview
This March, the Silver Lake Film Festival programmed some of the best new Asian cinema you can't see anywhere else. So where were the audiences?


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April 13, 2006


C O L U M N
  
Column: Pop go the C-words
Relax, it's just mando-pop. Or is it? Wang Leehom and A-Mei's latest records sing of "Chineseness" in ways that aren't music to everyone's ears.
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A R C H I V E
  
Locked and Loaded: the Imperturbable Lu Chuan
Already heralded as one of China's new-gen visionaries, filmmaker Lu Chuan's latest opus is "Kekexili: Mountain Patrol," the stirring, harrowing account of the titanic struggle between Kekexili's patrolmen and poachers. In an exclusive sit-down with APA following UCLA's screening of Kekexili, Lu talks industry, piracy and journalistic responsibility.
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C L I P S
  
April 13, 2006: News Bites
Nothing formulaic about this year's edition of Asian FilmOut; Gurinder Chadha does Dallas; Dante Basco and Lucy Liu tango, err, tangle at the box office. All this and more in the latest edition of News Bites.
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F O R E I G N
  
April 13, 2006: News From Abroad
Korea doesn't want to crack the Da Vinci code; Playboy hits Indonesia; Teriyaki Boyz at MTV Asia Awards. This and more in the latest edition of News From Abroad.
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