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Michelle Yeoh is a mythological goddess in the new Disney+ series American Born Chinese. Based on the genre-hopping graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang, Disney unveiled a featurette of the new series during the D23 Expo.

“It’s a lot of fun, it’s a log of magic, it’s a lot of badass action,” Yeoh says in the clip which you can view in the video above. Yeoh adds later on, “It is a magical ride and that’s what Disney+ is all about.”

American Born Chinese tells the story of Jin Wang (Ben Wang), an average teenager juggling his high school social life with his home life. When he meets a new student on the first day of the school year, even more worlds collide as Jin is unwittingly entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods.

Joining Wang are Yeo Yann Yann as Christine Wang, Chin Han as Simon Wang, Ke Huy Quan as Freddy Wong, Jimmy Liu as Wei-Chen, Sydney Taylor as Amelia with Daniel Wu as Sun Wukong “The Monkey King” and Yeoh as Guanyin.

Kelvin Yu (Bob’s Burgers) serves as executive producer and showrunner. Destin Daniel Cretton (Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) is set to direct and serves as executive producer, alongside Melvin Mar and Jake Kasdan (Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.), Erin O’Malley (Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.), Asher Goldstein (Short Term 12) and Gene Luen Yang. The Disney Branded Television series is produced by 20th Television, part of Disney Television Studios.

Guest directors for the show include Peng Zhang (Episode 4) and Lucy Liu (Episode 6).

American Born Chinese is expected to be released on Disney+ in 2023.

(via Deadline)

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archivama · 2 years

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Angelina Jolie by Christine Wang

#angelina jolie #christine wang

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dweemeister · 2 months

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Best Documentary Short Film Nominees for the 96th Academy Awards (2024, listed in order of appearance in the shorts package)

This blog, since 2013, has been the site of my write-ups to the Oscar-nominated short film packages – a personal tradition for myself and for this blog. This omnibus write-up goes with my thanks to the Regency South Coast Village in Santa Ana, California for providing all three Oscar-nominated short film packages.

If you are an American or Canadian resident interested in supporting the short film filmmakers in theaters (and you should, as very few of those who work in short films are as affluent as your big-name directors and actors), check your local participating theaters here.

Without further ado, here are the nominees for the Best Documentary Short Film at this year’s Oscars. The write-ups for the Live Action and Animated Short categories are coming soon. Non-American films predominantly in a language other than English are listed with their nation(s) of origin.

Năi Nai & Wài Pó (2023)

Rarely do both sides of one’s family ever meet. You might expect them to mingle at weddings and funerals. But cohabitation? Such is the case with Taiwanese American director Sean Wang’s two grandmothers in Năi Nai & Wài Pó (paternal and maternal grandmother, respectively), available worldwide on Disney+ and Hulu. Wishing to live closer to family, Wang moved in with his grandmothers Yi Yan Fuei (Năi Nai) and Chang Li Hua (Wài Pó) in their California household during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. His grandmothers rarely leave the house, even for groceries, and keep their heavy curtains drawn at all hours. As thin beams of sunlight barely stream through the interior’s earthy colors, both grandmothers continue to read the newspaper, sing traditional Chinese music, do their own cooking (I assume someone drops off groceries for them), tease each other about farting in bed, and reflect on their families and their pasts. They know that there are fewer tomorrows remaining, but that will not stop them from living joyously and with love for their grandson, who, though off-screen, they converse with throughout the shoot.

Qualifying for the Academy Awards by wining Best Documentary Short at SXSW in 2023 (in addition to the equivalent prize at AFI Fest), Năi Nai & Wài Pó freely admits that its subjects are playing up their act for their grandson. Observational cinema this is not. But in their sense of exaggerated play there exists a twofold acknowledgement. First, as Năi Nai states, “the days we spend feeling pain and the days we spend feeling joy are the same days spent. So, I’m going to choose joy.” And perhaps most meaningfully to Wang, their playing for the camera is one of many ways they express their love for their grandson. It is an elevated home video, a loving portrait, and a reminder to cherish those who loved us into being.

My rating: 7.5/10

The Barber of Little Rock (2023)

People Trust in Little Rock, Arkansas is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). In other words, it is a non-profit – partially funded by the American federal government – to address issues in creating economic growth and opportunities in some of the most underserved communities in the nation through loans, emergency financial assistance, and housing subsidies. People Trust and its President, Arlo Washington, are the subjects of The Barber of Little Rock (available for free online through The New Yorker), directed by John Hoffman (2021’s Fauci) and Christine Turner (2021’s Lynching Postcards: 'Token of A Great Day'). The film, Oscar-qualified by winning the Grand Prize for Documentary Short at Indy Shorts International Film Festival (Indiana), requires a wealth of context to the issues that it raises, but does not always provide enough – especially how municipal, state, and regional history impacts racism in banking, and vice versa.

Arlo Washington is a fascinating, wonderfully-intentioned person, but the movie spends too much time with him directly stating the piece’s thesis about financial equality and generational poverty to the camera. Most compelling of all were some of the individual appointments at People Trust of regular people simply looking for financial relief or a loan to kickstart a business or make their rent payments. So too Washington's barbering training school – especially a scene when two students are asked to look intently at the other’s faces, to understand the other’s struggles simply through quiet observation. Arlo Washington figures in many of these scenes as well, and those scenes reveal as much, if not more, about the lives of People Trust’s clients than any of his brief lectures can accomplish. Hoffman and Turner clearly had deeply cinematic material to work with that could empower their messaging, and it is a shame they are unable to fully utilize it.

My rating: 7/10

Island in Between (2023, Taiwan)

Ten kilometers away from the Chinese city of Xiamen lies Kinmen, a group of islands under control of Taiwan (the island of Taiwan is 187 kilometers away). Directed and narrated by S. Leo Chiang and distributed by The New York Times, Island in Between is Chiang’s meditation on not only Kinmen’s precarious geography and its political status, but his own identity of being American, Chinese, and Taiwanese – three separate identities that interconnect, but are forever distinct. Like many viewers, I was unaware of Kinmen’s existence before viewing Island in Between. This film is most valuable in introducing audiences to a place in some ways frozen in the mid-twentieth century, not so much capturing the spirit of the place and understanding its history.

During visits to mainland China in the late 2000s, Chiang, Taiwanese-born and American-raised, was struck by how vibrant the mainland was – something unrecognizable from “the communist wasteland [he] learned about in school.” In the years since, the crackdown on Hong Kong’s democracy, the COVID-19 pandemic, and increased political tensions between China and Taiwan have complicated his feelings towards the mainland. As a Vietnamese American, I easily saw parallels between how the younger diaspora views our so-called “motherland”, what we are taught, and how older generations perceive their original home. Even among generations, there are divisions in how we feel about the motherland. But Chiang has the additional complication of being caught between three nations important to his being. If anything, his mentions about his parents and their views feels far too cursory, as they are the ones most responsible for shaping his views about American/Chinese/Taiwanese tensions. One hopes this film is not a harbinger of things to come, as beached tanks rust on the placid Kinmen shore.

My rating: 7/10

The ABCs of Book Banning (2023)

As of the publication of this omnibus write-up, bans and challenges to books in libraries and schools have spiked since 2021. These book challenges, often taken up by parents and certain religious organizations, have disproportionately targeted books by and/or about LGBTQ+ and non-white (especially black) people. Stepping into the debate is MTV Documentary Films’ The ABCs of Book Banning (available on Paramount+), directed by Sheila Nevins, Trish Adlesic, and Nazenet Habtezgh. Unfortunately, the film advocates against book challenges in the most stultifyingly artless way. Early on, a title card reveals that the filmmakers will ask about book banning and restrictions from a group that we have heard little from: children. An honorable approach, but the interview snippets found in The ABCs of Book Banning are repetitive and seem rehearsed – children, aghast at the notion that a selected book is a target, offer reasons why book banning is a terrible idea. Nothing Americans have not heard before. Breaking up their interviews are images of book covers, followed by a brief quotation from said book, and an amateurish “BANNED” or “CHALLENGED” banner in red over the book. Sometimes, cheap animation depicting that book’s passage appears; the placement of these animated sequences has no rhyme or reason.

Damningly, this is a film in search of a structure. A handful of authors whose books have been banned from libraries or schools show up to introduce themselves over what appears to be an interview over Zoom. They say a few sentences about why book banning is terrible and we never hear from them again in the film – a complete waste. I suspect these authors recorded longer interviews, but there is almost nothing that remains of those interviews in the final product. This is a film for those who agree with its premise, have no cinematic taste, and are tediously self-satisfied in how they express their political views.

My rating: 4/10

The Last Repair Shop (2023)

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is the last major city school district in the United States to offer free musical instrument repair to its students. From the Los Angeles Times and Searchlight Pictures comes Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers’ The Last Repair Shop (also available on Disney+ and Hulu), which takes us to LAUSD’s repair shop. Just short of the 40-minute limit for short films, The Last Repair Shop curiously tells the viewer preciously little about the shop itself (what are the challenges it is facing, and why is the last of its kind?). Proudfoot and Bowers – both previously nominated in this category for A Concerto Is a Conversation (2021; also available online thanks to The New York Times) – adopt much of the same style as their previous nominee. Both films share talking heads in shallow focus and snappy editing. These aspects sometimes made A Concerto Is a Conversation incohesive, but they work immensely better for The Last Repair Shop. It also helps that The Last Repair Shop, which slowly reveals itself to also be a portrait of a rarely-seen side to L.A., has a clear structure that the viewer can discern early on.

What carries The Last Repair Shop are the life-affirming conversations we have with the four principal interview subjects, all of whom work in a different department at the shop – Dana Atkinson (strings), Paty Moreno (brass), Duane Michaels (woodwinds), and Steve Bagmanyan (pianos; also the shop supervisor, and who inspired the film as he tuned pianos at Bowers’ high school). Whether they play an instrument or not, all four recognize music’s ability to better understand ourselves and others, and as “one of the best things that humans do.” The addition of student voices to the film – especially when one realizes that the repair shop employees almost never hear back from the children whose instruments they repair – strengthens a connection, however distant, through music. The Last Repair Shop’s final minutes provide it that final cinematic touch you might have anticipated, an affirmation of why those who speak the language of music hold it so dear.

My rating: 8.5/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found in the “Ratings system” page on my blog. Half-points are always rounded down.

From previous years: 88th Academy Awards (2016) 89th (2017) 90th (2018) 91st (2019) 92nd (2020) 93rd (2021) 94th (2022) 95th (2023)

For more of my reviews tagged “My Movie Odyssey”, check out the tag of the same name on my blog.

#Nai Nai and Wai Po #The Barber of Little Rock #Island in Between #The ABCs of Book Banning #The Last Repair Shop #Sean Wang #John Hoffman #Christine Turner #S. Leo Chiang #Sheila Nevins #Trish Adlesic #Nazenet Habtezgh #Ben Proudfoot #Kris Bowers #96th Academy Awards #Oscars #31 Days of Oscar #My Movie Odyssey

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somehow it did not occur to me until today that christine bemorechill and joy eeaao are played by the same person

#dang. stephanie hsu is wild /positive #bmc #christine canigula #joy wang #eeaao

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damnredthing · 2 years

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Dragoncon SNW Panel popped up on Youtube

First of all a big thank you to ashwar007 who uploaded the SNW panel to YouTube. I don't know who you are, but the Trek community owes you big time. 😊🖖

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I love panels that only have a few guests and not the whole cast. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore the entire cast. But smaller panels have a much more personal atmosphere and the people on stage are a lot more relaxed.

I loved all the great questions that triggered so many great and funny answers. Anson's story about his convo with Shatner is hilarious.

My absolute highlight of this panel is watching Garrett's reactions. I totally can relate to him. 😂

#dragoncon2022 #snw #strange new worlds #jess bush #christine chapel #anson mount #christopher pike #ethan peck #spock #garrett wang #harry kim #voyager #star trek #wish i had been there #getting jealous that you US peeps get so many awesome conventions #hope they will come visit germany at Destination Germany this month #Youtube

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highsummonertemptress · 2 years

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About Bling Empire Season 3 [Spoilers]

Kelly is right to be upset at Anna for bringing Andrew, I wouldn't care if my ex changed and wanted to talk

You would think after three seasons, Kevin would take advantage of his rich friends to get similar deals for modelling gigs that he also wanted and ask for more advice from them to further his career. But I don't think he's doing it with the way this show is going🥴

Kim is a horrible, horrible person to Kevin. She doesn't like him but gets jealous when he goes out with the healer and then gets back together with Devon. She just wants them to be miserable and single friends but was she not the one who asked him to do a lie detector test and failed herself?

Anna is still being Anna and I see the influence she has on Jaime with how she treats Christine, it's horrible.

Jaime is still just a fashion influencer with no personality of her own. I feel like she needs to get out of her small circle and meet other people who are not as fortunate as her.

Christine wasn't bad this season but apart from Mimi and Kevin being her only friend, I would have stopped talking to everyone else after Kane started chatting shit about her then gaslight her in front of everyone in the dinner party.

Also, I hope Kevin's new business does well and he does modelling part time, he just needs to work on his mannerisms (eating and showering, he was definitely raised by white wolves), stop acting like a freeloader (how surprised can you be at how many extravagant parties and free expensive things) and not treating every women like they are a free meal ticket.

There is no way I would want to know anyone like Kane, let alone have a "friend" like him. He's horrible to Christine, Kevin and Anna and a shit-stirrer. He's definitely bought them all gifts so they can all be his friends, I'm sure.

Speaking of Kane, making him the face of Fenty, that's good for him but like some people have said, I can think of other people who could be the face as well (e.g Lucy Liu, Steve Yuen, Thuy, Amber Liu, Jay Park) so if it's really about bringing Black and Asian communities together, I'm not sure Kane is the bridge 🤔

I honestly hope the group break up, a lot of them seem to hate each other and don't get along. Obviously it's mostly edited for the show but there's not much compassion between any of them really

I think this is the last season if it hasn't been confirmed. They've used the same or similar storylines for three seasons now and looks like we're heading to New York.

Here's hoping Dorothy's adventures into New York will be better!

#bling empire #bling empire new york #fenty #lucy liu #amber liu #jay park #steve yeun #thuy #bling empire season 3 #Kevin Kreider #Mimi Morris #kane lim #Dorothy Wang #Christine chiu #Kelly mi li #anna shay #kim lee #jaime xie

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based-and-rinpilled · 1 year

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If I had a nickel for every time Stephanie Hsu played a character with ADHD, I’d have 2 nickels

Not a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice

#stephanie hsu #christine canigula #joy wang #jobu tupaki #adhd #she speaks yet they say nothing

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habitmademedoit · 2 years

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Y’all need to appreciate the fact that the lady who plays Joy Wang is LITERALLY Christine Canigula

The original AND the Broadway versions.

I saw her on Broadway and now she’s in this huge amazing movie

Stephanie Hsu supremacy 🙌🙌

#christine canigula #everything everywhere all at once #stephanie hsu #joy wang #be more chill #be more chill broadway #juggie talks

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modalities-of-care · 6 months

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Christine Tien Wang

Sandy, 2014 Collage and acrylic on canvas 219 x 208 cm [HxW]

#Christine Tien Wang #Autobiography #Solo show #los angeles #contemporary art #exhibition

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polkadotmotmot · 1 year

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Christine Wang - Marx cat with orange wall, 2023

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hunxi-after-hours · 1 year

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i read the way spring arrives on ur rec, and loved it so much!! i ended up rly appreciating the nonfiction essays the most, they provide such valuable context for the genre (xueting christine ni's essay abt female web novel authorship was incredible!) highly agree with ur point abt it being essential reading for danmei (esp western) readers. so thank u for making me aware of it!

oh oh oh!!! so glad that I could bring this book to your attention and that you got so much out of it!

I feel like I should clarify that The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories doesn't contain danmei, nor is it about danmei; rather, I think it is important and necessary reading because it provides a great deal of the context for the literary and cultural environment that danmei is contained within. through the translated short stories, you can experience such a wide range of literary imagination, from Xia Jia's experimentation co-writing with an AI to the haunting, fable-like atmosphere of "The Woman Carrying a Corpse" by Chi Hui to vicious devastation of "Dragonslaying" by Shen Yingying to the fantastic, dreamscape world of "The Way Spring Arrives" by Wang Nuonuo... and the essays examine translation from various perspectives (Emily Xueni Jin's "Is There Such a Thing as Feminine Quietness? A Cognitive Linguistics Perspective" and Yilin Wang's "Translation as Retelling..." and R. F. Kuang's "Writing and Translation: A Hundred Technical Tricks") while incorporating theory and context into discussions of speculative literature written by women and nonbinary authors in China

the increasing international attention paid to danmei over the past few years often operates in a vacuum: beyond the language itself, most international readers have no concept of the history, the culture, the literal context of the literary landscape. what is internet literature, and how does it differ from traditional publishing? what are the dynamics of social expectations, gender, and tradition that influence and inform what authors write about? what are the wounds and fears, exploration and experimentation, heartbreak and history woman writers (and beyond) engage with in contemporary Chinese literature, and how are they mediated through genre?

all of which is to say, The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories is a great place to start learning more

#not to be like 'DIVERSIFY YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF CHINESE LITERATURE BEFORE MAKING MORAL PRONOUNCEMENTS ON DANMEI' but like. do that #hunxi book tag #I understand why people's engagement with Chinese culture would begin with cdramas and end with reading translated danmei #but I hope no one's taking that as a comprehensive understanding of Chinese culture #because it's such a wild and wondrous and scary and vast place to discover #and I'd hate for people to look away before they even get to the good stuff

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I saw episode seven of American Born Chinese.

That's my family. That's my fucking family. I can see my father and my brother and my grandfather and my grandmother and my community and people I've forgotten but this still reminds me of them.

How dare that principal suggest that Christine Wang doesn't love her son enough because they are a Chinese family. How fucking dare she. How fucking dare she read about cultural sensitivity and turn it around so they need to change to be like her.

And Jamie the actor? The story he's telling? The message he said, to kids who looked like him? That's his story. That's the actor, the real life man, his story as a Chinese child star. Everything he said, about being stuck in sidekick and nerd roles? That is the exact experience of the real-life person. And I am so fucking glad that he got to tell his story in this show, because it is so fucking important. He's talking to my community. He's talking to people like my brother and my friends and my friend's brothers and my childhood classmates and my second cousins and my doctor's family and my chiropractor's family. I was actually crying while he was talking (I'm crying now) because it's so fucking real.

And I will not shut up about how Wei-Chen has my brother's hair and how I can see my side profile in Jin and how Simon Wang's face reminds me of my Yeh-Yeh's. That's us. That's US.

The people who made this show get it. I love it so fucking much.

Oh yeah, and in the last episode when Guanyin was sorting through stuff to keep and stuff to throw away and Wei-Chen asked her if they should throw away the bag of soy sauce packets and she said no way? That's a Chinese thing. My grandma has a whole drawer full of restaurant napkins and ketchup packets that came with to-go orders. I just. I saw that and I saw my family and my community and it's something so small but it matters so much-

#i wonder if i'd grown up with more chinese being spoken around me then i would have been less embarrassed to learn it #i didn't learn it btw askjdfsd #maybe someday ill ask my dad to teach me mandarin #american born chinese

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222nimsayyy · 2 years

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‘Angelina Jolie’ (2018) by Christine Wang

#mu

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highsummonertemptress · 2 years

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About Bling Empire Season 2 [SPOILERS]

Anna is still my favourite but her and Christine's petty squabble is boring. I actually wanted them to confront Kane at the end of the season but there was 3 mins left and a cliffhanger?!

Since Season 1, I had a feeling I was right about Jessy/Jesse/Jessey having another family. The man has four kids and doesn't want to get married again cause he cheated looooool And even if it's Cherie and Jessy/Jesse/Jessey's business, do you lot remember you're on TV and that was going to get out one way or another?

Kane is so wrong in this season for a lot of things. Ruined Kevin's attempts with Kim just to make drama, making Cherie's business be about him because he felt betrayed and lying to Christine's face saying Kim made him go to Anna's when that's not true

Kelly is redeemed this season only cause Andrew the power ranger wasn't there, but for that cliffhanger why is he coming to Anna's house for??

Jaime is adorable but boring. They did her dirty with the editing of her date because I bet she didn't talk that much and also why was she and Dorothy okay with Jaime (23 year old) going on a date with a 35 year old guy?? 🤢

Also is Jaime the cause of Christine and Anna butting heads over Anna going to "end Christine?" Or did I miss something

Love Dorothy Wang and Mimi but there's no story for them, they're just rich. The 22 year gap between Mimi and her husband is wild too

Kim having dated Keith Ape, a cultural appropriator and rapper tells me everything I need to know. And fell in love with him?! The bar is in hell 🙃

I have no words for Kevin, he thinks he wants Kim but I don't believe it. He looks at her like I look at Coco Ichibanya - aka delicious food

That cliffhanger was rude, there's a LOT that they need to wrap up - Cherie and her husband, Kane Vs Christine and Anna and Andrew walking into Anna's house. I need season 3 by the end of 2022😭

#bling empire #Christine chiu #anna shay #kevin kreider #kim lee #kelly mi li #kane lim #andrew m gray #jaime xie #Gabriel chiu #cherie chan #mimi Morris #Dorothy wang #bling empire season 2

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aroaessidhe · 4 months

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24 in 2024

tagged by @traeumenvonbuechern thank you!

crossing them off as I read them

Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft

Fallen Thorns by Harvey Oliver Baxter

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

The Splinter In The Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa