http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/ Asia Pacific Arts, published by the UCLA Asia Institute, covers the dynamic worlds of Asian and Asian American arts and entertainment. en-us This year's Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival showcased a record dozen works from the Philippines. Unfortunately, most were indistinguishable from each other.http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=92162APA reviews nine of the documentaries screened at this year's Visual Communications festival, including Grand Jury Prize winner, Oh Saigon.http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=92157APA breaks down four of the nine films in the narrative feature competition at this year's Asian Pacific Film Festival, including Grand Jury winner Ocean of Pearls.http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=92155The Asian Pacific films at this year's Visual Communications festival hailed from the Philippines, Malaysia, Japan, Korea, Australia, and elsewhere.http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=92156Everything we can think of (and some things we'd rather not) about love finds a home in these four honest shorts.http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=92308After delighting the audience with a wide variety of music videos, the directors of The Los Angeles Pacific Film Festival 2008's "The Gift of Sound and Vision" program engaged in a discussion about the music video survival in a world dominated by internet. http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=92163Asia Pacific Arts observes the dynamics of a Hollywood press junket for Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay -- but first, a sonnet about John Cho's uncanny ability to sport a pair of low-rise jeans.http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=91641Shinji Higuchi's Hidden Fortress: The Last Princess, the Toho-backed remake of Akira Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress (titled more suggestively in Japanese as "The Three Bad Ones of the Hidden Fortress"), and which just premiered last weekend at an absolutely rabid screening at the University of Southern California, is a fascinating cinematic phenomenon on several levels.http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=91607The old Chanoma Film Festival of Los Angeles is now the less-cheesy, though still wonderfully populist Japan Film Festival. APA reviews some of the films on view, whose impressive breadth makes the revamped JFF an exciting addition to Little Tokyo. http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=91609It took 25 years in the business, but Jackie Chan and Jet Li finally give their fans what they want: a fight together. So why is the main character a 16 year-old white boy?http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=90911