Topic “Film”

Hindu Leaders Worried About "The Love Guru"

Mike Meyers is coming to multiplexes near you this summer with his first original character since Austin Powers in "The Love Guru." This time he is Guru Pitka, “an American who was left at the...

By: Neela Banerjee | Posted: Sat, Dec 5th- 12:35pm | Under: Film

The Donger Speaks

NPR's In Character series recently did a feature on the character Long Duk Dong, the horny Chinese exchange student from John Hughes' eighties classic Sixteen Candles.

By: Sylvie Kim | Posted: Sat, Dec 5th- 12:35pm | Under: Film

Controversy Over '21' Movie Casting

Here is some eyebrow-raising news about the casting for the upcoming '21′ blackjack movie, due out March 28th. This...

By: Alvin Lin | Posted: Tue, May 4th- 9:50am | Under: Film, Race

A Hypersexual Afternoon Delight

Ever wonder what it's like to watch grainy 1920s silent porn in a room full of strangers? Well, when accompanied by Professor of Asian American Studies (UC Santa Barbara) Celine Parreñas Shimizu’s accessible (and often hilarious) analysis of...

By: Sylvie Kim | Posted: Fri, Jul 13th- 3:25pm | Under: Books Section, Film, SFIAAFF

Eve & The Fire Horse

Directed by Julia Kwan

By: Rebecca | Posted: Fri, Feb 19th- 8:02pm | Under: Issue 13: Hybrid - Winter 2007, Film

Slanted Screen

Directed by Jeff Adachi

By: Momo Chang | Posted: Fri, Feb 19th- 8:04pm | Under: Issue 13: Hybrid - Winter 2007, Film

Comedy Zen Season 1: No Subtitles Necessary

ImaginAsian

By: Harry Mok | Posted: Fri, Feb 19th- 8:03pm | Under: Issue 13: Hybrid - Winter 2007, Film

Changing the Color of Porn

THE FIRST TIME I came across Jiz Lee and Syd Blakovich, they were having sex. They were the stars of The Crash Pad-the first porn video by Pink and White Productions, a San Francisco feminist, queer porn company where Blakovich is a producer....

By: Patricia Justin... | Posted: Mon, May 9th- 6:49am | Under: Issue 13: Hybrid - Winter 2007, Front of the Book, Film, Performing Arts

Steven Okazaki

Directed by Steven Okazaki

By: Momo Chang | Posted: Thu, Mar 4th- 11:58pm | Under: Issue 13: Hybrid - Winter 2007, Film

Horror on Tape

HORROR IS A FEELING oft expressed but rarely defined. Entire genres of literature, film and arts have taken on this moniker, but the means of generating horror and why humans find things horrible is often left unsaid. Horror is seemingly such...

By: Jason Coe | Posted: Fri, Feb 22nd- 10:08am | Under: Issue 13: Hybrid - Winter 2007, Essay, Film, News & Politics

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