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This warm comedy underlines how rare films about the Chinese-British experience are – and makes you wonder why there aren’t more of them

“Asian American ‘80s,” now streaming on the Criterion Channel, spotlights 12 landmark and underappreciated Asian American films.

Riding high: Malcolm Harris, author of a history of Palo Alto, discusses the cinema of Northern California’s most disruptive region, from Muybridge’s animal locomotion studies to dot-com era techno thrillers

Pacific Arts Movement's artistic director Brian Hu discusses Asian representation in Hollywood and beyond.

Every performance is a great performance in Wayne Wang’s indie noir-comedy classic. Jacob Trussell dives deep into Chan is Missing.

The following list of applicably-themed titles presents some level of variety, and a way to celebrate this most special of American-based holidays.

The S.F. director plans to attend screenings in the Berkeley Museums series, which includes Chan is Missing, The Joy Luck Club and Maid in Manhattan.

‘Rose Plays Julie’ and ‘Perfumes’ top this week’s streaming movies at Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque Updated Mar 17, 2021; Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio -- “Rose Plays Julie” explores the flipside to the happy reunion between a mother and the child she put up for adoption. There are tears of a different kind when Rose, a university student raised happily in an adopted family, forces a meeting with her less-than-interested birth mother. Also beginning March 19, Cleveland Cin...

‘Mafia Inc.’ and ‘The Tunnel’ top this week’s streaming movies at Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque John Benson, cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio — Just when you thought the exhausted mafia film genre had nothing new to offer, here comes the brand new “Mafia Inc.” Set in Montreal and based on a true story, the Sicilian-mafia drama — which stars veteran Italian actor-writer-director Sergio Castellitto — has a 100 percent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Beginn...

‘I Blame Society’ and ‘Atlantis’ top this week’s streaming movies at Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque John Benson, cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio — Known for award-winning film shorts, Gillian Wallace Horvat makes her feature debut with “I Blame Society.” Cleveland Cinemas will be showing the unique comedy/horror movie online beginning Friday, Jan. 29. The film blurs the lines between art and real life after an ambitious filmmaker discovers she’s good at getti...