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Let’s just say one thing right off: Bollywood this ain’t! After enjoying the delightful Straight From the Heart song-and-dance flick at SIFF last year, we rushed to pick an Indian film from the new schedule. Oy, vey. Straight From the Heart was eye-popping entertainment that kept your interest for...
Charming and engaging actress Rene Liu plays a young professional woman who places a personals ad in search of a husband. We get to experience many of her dates, most of them disastrous, as she meets them all, one after another, at the same tea house. In the meantime,...
The Faroe Islands is one of those places that I’d love to go visit: stark, green, rolling hills, with little red-housed fishing villages dotting the shoreline. It just seems like one of those places that is always cold, rainy, and windy. Fun to visit, but I’ll bet you a...
All My Loved Ones is a fictionalized story of one family in Czechoslovakia just before World War II broke out. Hitler has already occupied several countries, and is threatening to go across the borders and into Czechoslovakia. Jewish doctor Jacob Silberstein is a well-to-do citizen with a large and...
Jiney (Race Wong) is a pretty young student who disses boys to instead go out and take photos with her best friend Jas (Race’s real-life sister Rosanne Wong). She is a serious girl, with furrowed brow, oblivious to the stares and “I think you’re hot” interest of cute boys...
Not to be bitter or anything (as I grumble, “Goddamn kids these days…” and bang my cane on the floor), but I don’t think that the teenage movies of my generation sucked as much as they do now. OK, the Porky‘s movies sucked, but other than, say, Clueless or...
I have to say that this is probably the most gorgeous film of 1999… every shot is beautiful: close-ups of characters, snowy cedar trees leaning in the wind, lighthouses, beaches, etc. Certainly a good ad for the Northwest (apparently it was filmed at Bainbridge Island, WA and a town...
