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"2004 may end up being American cinema's
year of the robot, with Pak and his independent
sci-fi movie getting the jump on Hollywood."
- Wired |
ROBOT
STORIES AND MORE SCREENPLAYS
by Greg Pak
Winner
of 35 film festival awards, including
the 26th Asian American International
Film Festival 03 Emerging Director Award,
ROBOT STORIES is an acclaimed independent
movie, written by rising Asian American
director Greg Pak. In four intertwined
stories, people struggle to connect
in a technological world.
Praised as "the kind of science
fiction sophisticated audiences crave
and deserve," this collection includes
six more of Pak's scripts, such as ASIAN
PRIDE PORN, ALL AMATEUR ECSTASY, MOUSE,
and CAT FIGHT TONIGHT, as well as original
commentary by the author and a foreword
by Tony Award winning playwright David
Henry Hwang.
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"You can take a girl out of Chinatown
but you can't take Chinatown out of the
girl."
— Dim Sum: A Little
Bit of Heart |
OUT
OF THE SHADOWS: ASIAN IN AMERICAN CINEMA
Edited by ROGER GARCIA
An eclectic collection of voices and views
that presents a cross-section of Asian
Americans working in American cinema today.
Gina Marchetti writes on America's Asia:
Hollywood's Construction, Deconstrustion,
and Reconstruction of the "Orient."
Peter X. Feng contributes Asian American
Film and Video: A Cinema of Dispersion.
Nicolas Saada brings The Shadow of Whom?
Asian Films and Hollywood Action Cinema.
Actors profiled, among others, include:
JACKIE CHAN, TAMLYN TOMITA, JET LI, JOAN
CHEN, NOBU McCARTHY, MICHI KOBI, JAMES
SHIGETA. Featured filmmakers include:
WAYNE WANG, JOHN WOO, TSUI HARK, ANG LEE,
CHRIS LEE, GREGG ARAKI, EMIKO OMORI, and
more. Also reports from the avant-garde
from YOKO ONO and ANGEL VELASCO SHAW.
302 pages, illus.
A publication by Edizioni Olivares and
the Festival Internazionale del Film di
Locarno (Locarno International Film Festival)
Exclusive U.S. distribution by Asian CineVision,
Inc.
To place an order, click
here.
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INDIAN
SUMMER: FILMS, FILMMAKERS AND STARS BETWEEN
RAY AND BOLLYWOOD
edited by
Italo Spinelli
A collection of
notes, comments and interviews on the
generation of Indian directors, scriptwriters
and actors that has emerged in the last
quarter century. The articles included
in this book trace the links of films
produced in India with regional and social
realities from the 70s to the present,
written by YVES THORAVAL, ARUNA VASUDEV,
P.K. NAIR, LALIT MOHAN JOSHI, GEORGEKUTTY
A.L., JOHN W. HOOD, UMA DACUNHA, DEREK
MALCOLM. Interviews with MIRA NAIR, ISMAIL
MERCHANT, AMITABH BACHCHAN, OM PURI, SHAJI
N. KARUN, MANI KAUL, SHYAM BENEGAL, ADOOR
GOPALAKRISHNAN, GIRISH KARNAD GOUTAM GHOSE,
GOVIND NIHALANI, MANI RATNAM, BUDDHADEB
DASGUPTA, SOUMITRA CHATTERJEE, and a tribute
to SUBRATA MITRA.
262 pages, illus.
A publication by Edizioni Olivares and
the Festival Internazionale del Film di
Locarno (Locarno International Film Festival)
Exclusive U.S. distribution by Asian CineVision,
Inc.
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