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Series
Criterion collection volume 1188
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
DVD edition.
Language
English
Description
Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between filial duty and her desires.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Join host Archie Kao as he shares the incredible story of Chinese American achievement, from the first wave of immigrants in California's gold fields to the entrepreneurs of the 21st century's Information Age. Subjects include Jerry Yang and the creation of Yahoo!, Amy Tan's fascinating novels of Chinese American life, I.M. Pei and his magnificent architecture, Michelle Kwan, the darling of American figure skaters, Yo-Yo Ma's acclaimed cello performances,...
Pub. Date
2016
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
My father escaped poverty and starvation during the Cultural Revolution in 1966. After risking his life to get to America, he started our family in Boston. But when his restaurant went bankrupt and my mom got sick, he began to feel like he'd failed at the American Dream and questioned whether he wanted to move back to his home village in Gungdong Province to participate in the new Chinese Dream. A story of migration is passed down from father to son...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When a Chinese-American police officer kills an innocent, unarmed Black man in a darkened stairwell of a New York City housing project, it sets off a firestorm of emotion and calls for accountability. When he becomes the first NYPD officer convicted of an on-duty shooting in over a decade, the fight for justice becomes complicated, igniting one of the largest Asian-American protests in history, disrupting a legacy of solidarity, and putting an uneven...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Kai-lan, Rintoo, Tolee, and Hoho are playing in the backyard when they get a visit from their superhero friend, the Monkey King, who really needs their help. Will Kai-lan and her friends go on an adventure with the Monkey King and see what they can do? Of course they will! The Monkey King gives them robes to wear that give them special powers to float, jump, and spin in the air! They will use these special powers to find their way into the majestic...
9) The motel
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
Chinese-American adolescent Ernest works after school cleaning rooms at a dingy motel owned by his bossy mother. A Korean-American playboy drifter helps Ernest come out of his shell.
10) Boogie
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The story of Alfred "Boogie" Chin, a basketball phenom living in Queens, New York, who pusues his dreams of one day playing in the NBA.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens. The first in a long line of acts targeting the Chinese for exclusion, it remained in force for more than 60 years.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1188
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray edition.
Language
English
Description
Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between filial duty and her desires.
13) The cameraman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1033
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Language
None
Description
The final work over which Buster Keaton maintained creative control, this clever farce is the culmination of an extraordinary, decade-long run that produced some of the most innovative and enduring comedies of all time. Keaton plays a hapless newsreel cameraman desperate to impress both his new employer and his winsome office crush as he zigzags up and down Manhattan hustling for a scoop.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Paul Loong says that he has lived two lives: that of a POW, and after. But his daughter uncovers a story of survival, uncommon courage and faith: that of a young boy in Malaysia to becoming a Royal Air Force trainee; from an electrical student to a US merchant seaman; from the front lines of Korea to medical student in Italy. When her father finally shares his secret wartime diary with her, Theresa embarks on a journey to capture his harrowing experiences...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Deep in the secret heart of New York's Chinatown lies a criminal menace a thousand years old, the triad, a network of ruthless corruption and power. As the new godfather of the organization, Joey Tai decides it's time to war on the entrenched interests, both Italian and Oriental, in the lucrative drug trade. A confrontation ensues between Joey Tai and police Captain Stanley White and only one will survive.
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