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Aynne Kokas
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Articles by Aynne Kokas
Terra Cotta What?
With Hollywood now Made in China, will it also pay some cultural respect? Nobody's expecting historical rigor in The Mummy 3, but Aynne Kokas can hope otherwise.
Published on: 9/5/2008
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Shanghai International Film Festival 2007: capsule reviews
The Shanghai International Film Festival is a nexus for the development of a specific Shanghai-based filmmaking community. To that end, here is a sample of three Shanghai-based films from the festival created with Chinese, Sino-US, and Sino-Japanese capital.
Published on: 7/27/2007
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Under the Radar at the Shanghai International Film Festival
While Pusan, Tokyo, and Hong Kong remain the dominant festivals in Asia, the Shanghai International Film Festival has found a niche specific for China's peculiar cultural and economic circumstances within a global film marketplace.
Published on: 7/27/2007
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Better Late Than Never
Gina Kim follows-up her acclaimed Invisible Light with Never Forever, another exploration of the provocative intersections between Korean and Korean American culture.
Published on: 4/27/2007
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Finding Democracy, and Other Village Tales: Wu Wenguang's China Village Self-Governance Film Project
Mao's Yan'an talks on art echo in the villages of China, as documentarian Wu Wenguang leads a team of videographers on a mission to teach ordinary people to make films about their own communities.
Published on: 2/16/2007
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The Ring of Fire
Since Red Sorghum in 1988, everyone's had a stake in building up or tearing down Zhang Yimou. On his latest martial arts spectacle, APA has nothin' but love.
Published on: 12/20/2006
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Conference News: APEM Summit 2006
As a major hub in Asian-Pacific entertainment financing and production, Los Angeles was the setting of this year’s APEM Summit, drawing international experts and practitioners for two days of brainstorming.
Published on: 12/6/2006
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East is East; West is Hollywood
The choice to use Japan in the globe-trotting Babel is more than blind chance, but a calculated way to imagine -- and profit from -- difference.
Published on: 12/6/2006
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Time Regained
Stanley Kwan’s luscious 2005 film Everlasting Regret slipped through the festival circuit without a peep or a distribution deal. APA makes a case for its rediscovery.
Published on: 10/25/2006
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The Boys of Summer
With pomp and poetry, the quirky Cut-Sleeve Boys opens doors in international film festival scene for Britain's gay Chinese scene.
Published on: 9/7/2006
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Citizen of the Global Cineplex
Bigger, louder, crazier pyrotechnics...and that's before you even enter the theater. APA watches "Miami Vice" in Taipei and steps into an uncanny simulacra of sensations.
Published on: 8/22/2006
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Get short-y
The short films at this year's edition of the Taipei International Film Festival were nothing short of spectacular. The crown jewel of the bunch, however, was Tom Shu-yu Lin's The Pain of Others, which captured the festival's highly coveted best narrative award.
Published on: 8/3/2006
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Growing Pains
Little Red Flowers, the latest from acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yuan, examines childhood through the lenses of rebellion, authority, and most poignantly of all, fatherhood.
Published on: 8/3/2006
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Lovesick
If 2046 were the lovechild of Takashi Miike instead of Wong Kar-wai, chances are it might look a little something like Love Story, Kelvin Tong's engrossing blend of Asian horror hijinks and sappy melodrama.
Published on: 8/3/2006
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Born Again: An Interview with Cheng Yu-chieh
APA sits down with filmmaker Cheng Yu-chieh, whose metaphysically inclined "Do Over" was one of the sensations at the 2006 Taipei International Film Festival.
Published on: 7/13/2006
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Daytrippers
Ethereal, elliptical, and moving, Cheng Yu-chieh's feature-length debut "Do Over" gives the mystic moviegoer ample reason to celebrate.
Published on: 7/13/2006
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Everybody's kung-fu dancing
Chi Y. Lee's campy crowd-pleaser "Chocolate Rap" capitalizes on the limitless appeal of Taiwanese breakdancers. So what if the subplots are paper-thin and the supporting cast underdeveloped?
Published on: 7/13/2006
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