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A Conversation with Wayne Wang (COMING HOME AGAIN)

Christopher Reed — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:53:07 +0000

I met with director Wayne Wang (Last Holiday) on Sunday, September 8, 2019, at the Toronto International Film Festival, to discuss his new film, Coming Home Again (which I also reviewed). It’s an adaptation of Chang-rae Lee’s 1995 New Yorker […]

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COMING HOME AGAIN

Christopher Reed — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:20:24 +0000

It’s a profound experience, and by the end of Coming Home Again, we feel at home, ourselves, and transported by the visit.

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PERSON TO PERSON

Christopher Reed — Tue, 09 May 2017 16:42:28 +0000

Though at first the emotional stakes may seem low, the more one thinks about the movie the more its profound truths resonate beyond its narrative limits.

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A Conversation With Michal Marczak (ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS)

Christopher Reed — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 23:28:11 +0000

I recently spoke by phone with Polish filmmaker Michal Marczak on the occasion of the recent theatrical release of his 2016 Sundance-winning documentary hybrid feature All These Sleepless Nights (which I reviewed last year). A beautifully shot, elliptical meditation on […]

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THE 2009 HAMMER TO NAIL AWARDS

Michael Tully — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:46 +0000

Welcome to the second annual Hammer to Nail Awards! The ever-increasing torrent of end-of-the-year lists and trophies can become an overwhelming blur, which is just one of the reasons why we here at HTN have made a commitment to do […]

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DVD RELEASES 2009/5/26

Michael Tully — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:44:45 +0000

This week’s main course of noteworthy new DVD releases pretty much begins and ends with double-film packages by the underrated French visionary Philippe Garrel and the impressively versatile Wayne Wang. For dessert, chow down on one of the most eye-popping […]

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CHAN IS MISSING

Nelson Kim — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:02:29 +0000

(Buy Chan is Missing at Amazon, and visit the official website of the Asian American International Film Festival for screening details.) By the time he made Chan is Missing, Hong Kong native Wayne Wang had graduated from the California College […]

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