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Women's Campaign Fund unsure whether Sen Hillary Rodham Clinton will be guest at one of 20 simultaneous celebrity-filled dinners next Monday that have already raised more than $250,000; scene at American Museum of Moving Image's salute to Julia Roberts described; Carlos Moseley is named to Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York ; possibilty of Wayne Wang adapting Amy Tan's book The Bonesetter's Daughter into film discussed; high school senior Braedon Kershner to conduct Boston Pops in concert (topics.nytimes.com....ayne_wang/)
Chinese-American director Wayne Wang 's new film, Chinese Box , which was filmed in his native Hong Kong, is love story that examines clash between Chinese and Western cultures, and between past and present in lives of Chinese-Americans; Almost Heroes, last movie made by late comedian Chris Farley , will reach theaters in May and will show more serious side of actor; four films starring John Goodman , made over little more than year, will be released in theaters over next three months; films includ. (topics.nytimes.com....ayne_wang/)
Wayne Wang was on hand at the press conference for SFIAAFF to talk about his opening night feature. 60;The ten years that I57;ve worked down in Hollywood, I57;ve learned a lot of good things and a lot of bad things (laughter),61; he said. 60;Many of the good things are also bad things. In a way coming back to independent filmmaking and making films about the Chinese here, I almost have to re-learn film a little bit.61 (www.sf360.org....s_goo.html)
Luckiest Wang: Chinese director Wayne Wang , whose film A Thousand Years of Good Prayers won top honors at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Vulture only reported on this because his last name is Wang. It was a slow news day, and we are truly sorry (nymag.com....wangs.html)
It57;s a very interesting project about photograpy that remember me that super romantic story on 60;Smoke61;, the film by Wayne Wang , where Harvey Keitel , the tobacconist, every morning, at eight o57;clock was taking a picture of the same part of the street on which his shop was (www.benettontalk.com/2006/01/)
"Wayne Wang said, 'I think we should just make the filmtogether'. That was my film education. We worked together for twoyears." Auster was credited as co-director of the sequel Bluein the Face (1995 (www.theage.com.au....95641.html)
AnnaSophia Robb was in the fourth grade when she made her feature film debut in the family film, Because of Winn-Dixie. Director Wayne Wang chose young AnnaSophia out of a field of 650+ actresses. After narrowing the field down to three, Robb got the job and totally won over her director and fellow Because of Winn-Dixie cast members (movies.about.com....021205.htm)
In Because of Winn-Dixie, Daniels plays a preacher and the father of Opal (Robb), a lonely child who befriends a goofy-looking dog that becomes her best-friend. Daniels, who took the role because he wanted to work with director Wayne Wang , describes the film as being about the power of communication and universal feelings of love. (movies.about.com....021205.htm)
Singer/composer Dave Matthews stars as an introverted loner who charms animals with his music and becomes close friends with a lonely girl and her dog in Because of Winn-Dixie, a family-friendly film directed by Wayne Wang Anywhere But Here ). (movies.about.com....021205.htm)
Twentieth Century Fox and Walden Media present BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE a Wayne Wang Film adapted from the popular and much-honored novel of the same name by Kate DiCamillo. Among the book s awards is the coveted Newbery Honor. Wang directs from a screenplay by Joan Singleton. The Producers are Trevor Albert and Joan Singleton, and the Executive Producer is Ralph Singleton. (movies.about.com....021005.htm)
The Center of the World Wayne Wang Paul Auster Wo. Fat Girl New York Film Festival 2001 World Film Trans Now Playing Independent/World Film Sundance Film Festival 2001 I Heart Huckabees to Premiere at Toronto Film Festival (worldfilm.about.com....12100d.htm)
This year's opening night film is Wayne Wang 's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers , which represents the director's return to Asian American storytelling after an eclectic 15 years spent directing everything from Hollywood star vehicles Maid in Manhattan , Last Holiday , Anywhere But Here to a wide assortment of American indies Smoke , Blue in the Face , The Center of the World ). The festival will also honor Wang with a Spotlight Series that will include screenings of 1993's The Joy Luck Club , 1989's brash and erratic Life is Cheapâ¦but Toilet Paper is Expensive , and 2007's The Princess of Nebraska , which was originally conceived as a companion piece to A Thousand Years of Good Prayers . An Afternoon with Wayne Wang will find the director hosting a selection of clips and being interviewed onstage by New York Times /ex- Village Voice film critic Dennis Lim (theeveningclass.blogspot.com/)
But then there's Colma: The Musical, a lo-fi indie first feature written by H.P. Mendoza and directed by Richard Wong . The film documents, in song, the post-high school travails of three friends rattling around the fog -shrouded San Francisco suburb of the title, where those interred in the town's massive cemetery outnumber the living a thousand to one. Musical numbers dwell on underage drinking, small-town malaise and hipster posturing, as the characters try to figure out if leaving home is really the solution to their problems. The film was shot on DV for $15,000, and looks and sounds like it â the music was recorded in Wong's garage â which is part of its exuberant charm. After all, the musical isn't about showstopper after showstopper (though given its scale, Colma has more than its share of those); it's about the effervescent pleasure of watching characters express their thoughts, no matter how mundane, in song. We met up with Wong with New York , where he's finishing up his next project, a feature co-directed with Wayne Wan (blog.ifctv.com....g/2007/07/)
Trivia: Filmed in just five days, using the same set and much of the same cast as Smoke (1995). The premise of the film came to directors Wayne Wang and Paul Auster while watching an improvisation session between Harvey Keitel et. al. to help them get into character for filming Smoke (1995). They decided that the improvisations were so funny that they would spend a few days after shooting Smoke just filming film is almost entirely improvised. Auster and Wang claim to have "borrowed" the idea of shooting another movie on the back of an existing one from Roger Corman who often used to shoot movies very quickly on leftover sets from other productions. mor (us.imdb.com/title/tt0112541/)
Another fortuitous intervention in Auster's life came atChristmas 1990, when the film director Wayne Wang read Auster'sstory Auggie Wren's Christmas Story in The New York Timesand decided to make a film about the eponymous tobacconist. Austersubsequently wrote the script for Smoke (1995), a quietand whimsical depiction of various lives that intersect aroundAuggie's Brooklyn cigar store, and became a de factoco-directo (www.theage.com.au....95641.html)
Well, I was on the road when I met Wayne [Wang]. Wayne came out to a show. And I think that I was scruffy when he met me. I don't preen maybe as well as I should when I'm on the road. I don't have that many compelling things in my wardrobe either. So I was looking sort of as if I was on holiday in the Bahamas more than as if I was onstage or should've been looking. He said, Well, I like the beard. He said, We'll keep that. But then when I arrived, I was really hairy. He said, Maybe we should pull that back a bit. I don't think that it would've been that different, but when I arrived it would've been more of a Grizzly Adams thing, a mountain man more than someone who just hadn't shaved for a few weeks. (movies.about.com....1205_2.htm)
It was my first movie and a lot of times you have to audition. It was kind of a long process. It was about a three month process. I had the audition in July. About a week later, I had another audition with the casting agent and the director Wayne Wang . Then, about two weeks later, I had another audition with the producers and director and casting agent. Then I went home and they called me about a week later and said, Can you come to Louisiana for a screen test? So, I went out there and I was a little anxious when I came back. And, about two days later, they called me and said, Can you come to Louisiana for three months in four days? So, it s like, Okay, wow! I screamed, I was so excited. (movies.about.com....021205.htm)
Biography: One of Hollywood's most steadily employed character actresses, "Caroline Aaron " has appeared in an impressive array of films for some of the industry's most esteemed directors. A native of Richmond, VA, where she was born August 7, 1952, Aaron made her film debut as a waitress in "John Sayles "' "Baby, It's You" (1982). Her subsequent film credits include Sayles' Brother From Another Planet (1984), "Mike Nichols "' "Heartburn " (1986), "Working Girl " (1988), and "Primary Colors " (1998); "Woody Allen "'s "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989), "Alice" (1990), "Husbands and Wives" (1992), and "Deconstructing Harry " (1997); "Nora Ephron "'s "Sleepless in Seattle " (1993), and "Wayne Wang "'s "Anywhere but Here " (1999). In 2000, she popped up in Nichols' alien comedy "What Planet Are You From ?" and "Don Roos "' romantic drama "Bounce ", co-starring "Ben Affleck " and "Gwyneth Paltrow " (entertainment.msn.com....x?c=334511)
Oh, it s the best when you have a director like Wayne Wang , because it s amazing what he accomplished. And I know it s very difficult. The dog could do right but then the parrot not. Or the actor not. And it could be raining and all that. But she was a little trooper. We would be filming at three in the morning and [AnnaSophia Robb] never got tired. We were inspired by her (movies.about.com....021205.htm)
I knew the book. I d read the book to my grandchildren and the agents got together with Wayne Wang and that was it. I just loved the story. I think it certainly is an important movie in the sense that everyone can see it. Everybody . [It s] a family-type movie and I love the idea that the little girl is sort of the shaker. She gets all these individuals who live alone, [who] don t need anyone it turns out. They re happy, but they meet these people and you have the feeling they re going to have Christmas together and they re going to play Bingo. And that it changed. She was the little shaker that changed their lives. And I think that s a good lesson, whether it s a little town that s only 1,000 people or the UN. That we can get along. We just have to be a little more generous in our feeling, getting to other people and not living in our own little cag (movies.about.com....021205.htm)
That s the director. I mean, the book is not sentimental and that s the director. And it was unusual for Wayne Wang , if you know his work. I don't think he s worked with children, doesn t have children or pets, but that s right. And that s what was so wonderful. If it got a little sad and there was something that would happen with the dogs, it was like orchestrated like chamber music that you were one emotion to another but never prayed on your sentimentality. And I think children won t know why, but I think they ll relate to that (movies.about.com....021205.htm)
Yeah, and I think that was a smart choice not only of Kate [DiCamillo] in the book but also the screenplay and [director] Wayne Wang . It's not about a certain religion. We don't get very specific about it. It's more about a character who happens to be a preacher who is going through some issues of his own, which are revealed later in the film. I think this family film has more depth than some family films try and reach fo (movies.about.com....021205.htm)
Matthews did some acting in Virginia before turning to music to fulfill his creative urges. But Matthews gets sent a lot of scripts and likes to keep his foot in the door when it comes to movies. Asked why he chose this particular role Matthews explained, I was drawn to this project because I m a big fan of Wayne Wang s work. And I didn t want to play a musician. I sing just a little bit in the picture, but I liked the chance to play an interesting role in a rich ensemble of characters (movies.about.com....021205.htm)
A former model, Tyson acted in Off-Broadway plays and won a role in the TV series East Side, West Side (196351;64). Her film credits include The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), Sounder (1972, for which she was nominated for an Oscar ), and Fried Green Tomatoes (1991). Tyson starred in the TV movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974, an Emmy-winning performance) and played Binta in the miniseries Roots (1977). Her performance in the miniseries Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994) won an Emmy . She played Gloria Dump in Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) directed by Wayne Wang and based on the bestselling children's boo (www.infoplease.com....66463.html)
The story? Cliché, cliché, cliché, the umpteenth remake of Cinderellawith not a single interesting addition. The script? Formula (and lameat that). The cast? Jennifer Lopez &s turn as Cinderella /Sabrina provesshe does not remotely belong to rags-to-Princess roles; she isgalaxies away from Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly (or even PrettyWoman Julia Roberts ), no matter how expensive the jewelry or costumesshe wears. Ralph Fiennes seems to be on an O.D. of Prozac, with aperennial foolish smile on his face, wishing he were Cary (or evenHugh!) Grant - shame to see a talented actor in such a puffy role.Natasha Richardson is wasted in the obligatory dumb blonde part,Stanley Tucci hams it up irritatingly, Bob Hoskins knows and shows hisrole is an embarrassment. On a less negative note, kid Tyler Posey is areal charmer, and manages to survive his cutie part. The direction?Well, no doubt Wayne Wang is a professional and I hope he was paid aLOT of money to lend his prestigious name to this fluffy cake I onlywish the word professionalism were taken more seriously, as in professional integrity (us.imdb.com/title/tt0252076/)
Somebody brought the DVD. After the movie was over, nobody would own upas to who had the brilliant idea. Well Wayne Wang , remember Smoke ?Ralph Finnes for heaven 's sake, a very particular actor, very choosy orso I hear and Jennifer Lopez in the hands of a good director candeliver, remember Out of Sight ? No. The movie seems written by peoplewho've never seen a Preston Sturges or a Billy Wilder movie. It is asub TV movie of the week. Even Bob Hoskins playing the Hector Elizondopart of Pretty Woman can't save the day. Only Natasha Richardson inan all out performance managed to make me smile. There was a time inHollywood, not so long ago, when you could get a film made if you hadSteve Guttenberg in it. Jennifer Lopez is the Steve Guttenberg of thenew millennium . I don't understand how something so thoughtless,tasteless and utterly un-redeeming could get made in Manhattan ,Hollywood or anywhere else. Somebody should tell Jennifer Lopez thatshe's not Audrey Hepburn or Jean Arthur . There is a sort of hardnessabout her that makes her anti-romanti (www.imdb.com/title/tt0252076/)
Chen has found critical and commercial success in Hollywood, Hong Kong, and China. Her film career began in China, at age 14, when she appeared in Xie Jin's Youth (1976). As a student at the Shanghai Foreign Language Institute, Chen also pursued acting, starring in Little Flower (1978). She won China's equivalent of the Oscar , the Hundred Flowers Best Actress Award, for the performance. She left China and enrolled at California State University, while pursuing an acting career in the U.S. Her first American film was Wayne Wang 's Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985). Despite her obvious talent, roles were few and far between for Chen, but she landed a breakthrough role in Bernardo Bertolucci 's The Last Emperor (1987). She appeared in David Lynch 's offbeat television series Twin Peaks (1990). Her other films include Oliver Stone 's Heaven and Earth (1993) and The Wild Side (1995). She made her directorial debut with Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (1998). She also directed Autumn in New York (2000), starring Winona Ryder and Richard Gere (www.infoplease.com....80658.html)
The setting of the film is in New York 's Queens. The film is basicallypresented in English with sparing subtitles where necessary. The moodof the story is suggested from the beginning shot trained on Bai Lingin a 'limo' to/from airport, as flashback memories unfold. Scenes maybe reminiscent of Wedding Banquet 1993 (director Ang Lee ), and a veryAudrey Hepburn looking (hair-do especially hugging) Bai Ling's leanface; also Eat a Bowl of Tea 1989 (director Wayne Wang ), and even Dinner Rush 2000 (director Bob Giraldi , also set in Queens), butPan's story/film holds its own (www.imdb.com/title/tt0293146/)
Since her move to Hollywood in 1989, Ms. Wu has appeared and starred innumerous film and television projects. Most notable amongst her manyworks are: Heaven and Earth (directed by Oliver Stone ), The Soong Sisters (directed by Mabel Chung) and Joy Luck Club (directed by Wayne Wang ). In1995 eccentric English director Peter Greenaway picked Vivian to play therole of âNagikoâ in The Pillowbook. Vivian portrayed an obsessive Japanesewoman who indulged her erotic fantasies by brush painting her lovers (us.imdb.com....180/resume)
Gary Leva's Fog City Mavericks boasts terrific interviews with the likes of Lasseter, Walter Murch , Matthew Robbins , and Caleb Deschanel , and goes into too-laudatory detail about Lucas, Francis Coppola and Chris Columbus , but neglects snarkier folks like Wayne Wang and Terry Zwigoff . (I couldn't quite wrap my head around the inclusion of Clint Eastwood , whom I admire as much as anyone, but he just doesn't fit into any Bay Area grouping, based as he is in Hollywood and Carmel, which is some 90 miles down the coast from SF.) I enjoyed the historical background on Edward Muybridge (inventor of the zoopraxiscope) and Charlie Chaplin , but could have used a lot less of declamatory hyperbole from narrator Peter Coyote , who makes a lot of proclamations like, "Coppola was a genius!" Jeez. Pixar's Lasseter and Bird are great in the movie, but the best filmmaker arc-which the audience really ate up, too-was producer Saul Zaentz, who consistently threw his money on the line to make a string of top-notch movies that hold up quite well-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus , The Mosquito Coast , The English Patient (weblogs.variety.com....ywood/vfx/)
"We were sitting around talking about what we would do in this girl-girl scene, and I said I would love to do that," Klass recalls. She was Butts' girlfriend, a relationship repeatedly consummated on camera, in "Behind the Sphinc Door" and "Best of Bunghole Fever," among other videos. The brunet has begun some moves into the world of mainstream filmmaking, including a small part in Wayne Wang 's recent "The Center of the World" and a rumored fling with Bruce Willis , documented in the tabloids. ("I'm not in love with Bruce," she told the World Entertainment News Network . "It was all fun for me and now it's over." (reversecowgirlblog.blogspot.com....chive.html)
Second, he gets the best in acting talent. At 43, Maggie Cheung is no longer the young babe who prances around in black leather catsuits like in Heroic Trio Dung Fong Saam Hap , 1993) or Irma Vep (1996), but her work since the mid-'90s has grown in stature, especially in films like this, Wayne Wang 's Chinese Box (1997), Zhang Yimou 's Hero Ying Xiong , 2002) and her amazing polyglot performance in Olivier Assayas ' Clean (2004). And frequent Wong Kar-wai performer Tony Leung is, well, Hong Kong's best actor, period. No one else comes close (accelerateddecrepitude.blogspot.com....chive.html)
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is a Wayne Wang film about a Chinese man from Beijing who comes to visit his daughter in America after her divorce. He wants her to be happy, to find a good man and bear his grandchildren, but she resents his efforts to fit her into a traditional mold. Eventually a secret grudge from her childhood is revealed, and resolved. It's a movie full of silences, rewarding patience. I liked it very much (stevendj.livejournal.com/)
Calacanis was born and grew up in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn. He received a B.A. in psychology from Fordham University in Manhattan . He is a 5th Degree in Tae Kwon Do and has run in eleven consecutive New York City Marathons. He served as a script consultant on Wayne Wang ’s film “Center of the World” about the life of a “cyber-surfer” and appears in a supporting role. He serves on the board of directors of Bay Ridge Preparatory School (www.searchenginestrategies.com....canis.html)
In The Princess of Nebraska , Wayne Wang 's companion film to his other Toronto entry, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Wang tackles adapting another short story by Yiyun Li. Wang brought to life A Thousand Years of Good Prayers with methodical pacing and the careful unfolding of a story about the conflicted relationship between Mr. Shi, a Chinese father and his adult daughter, Yilan; in Princess , Wang uses an edgier style to show us 24 hours in the life of a college student some 15 years younger than Yilan, who lives in Omaha but has traveled to San Francisco (www.cinematical.com....telluride/)
Director Wayne Wang , best known for "The Joy Luck Club ," has a knack for meandering, for constructing little vignettes that are lovely by themselves even if they don't exactly add up to a cohesive narrative. He sends Adele and Ann into situations that seem meant solely to showcase their beauty and vulnerability, letting them blaze nervously down the open road or stare sleepily at the ocean while sipping coffee out of Styrofoam cups. And he's terrific at subtle ways of conveying their California evolution . As Ann changes from a sulky, baggy (www.salon.com..../anywhere/)
There's a lot more to anticipate, but I would be remiss in ending this post without mentioning two more established auteurs whose films are to be featured at the 2008 SFIAAFF. Wayne Wang , whose Chan is Missing is probably the most-frequently-cited early success of the Asian-American filmmaking movement, will see his two new films a Thousand Years of Good Prayers and the Princess of Nebraska play the festival, and will also be on-hand for an on-stage conversation March 15th. Two of his previous films, the Joy Luck Club and Life Is Cheap.But Toilet Paper is Expensive will complete the Wang spotlight (hellonfriscobay.blogspot.com/)
A chaste and tepid remake of a 1950 British comedy in which Alec Guinness learned the benefits of living as if each day were his last, this Last Holiday , directed by Wayne Wang from a script by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman, displays telltale symptoms of International Blanditis, an unfortunate multinational co-production by-product in which even the most exotic settings and costars assume the depth of cardboard cutouts. (www.cnn.com....nn_showbiz)
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