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Summer Palace (2006, Dir. Lou Ye) I knew when I first met you that we were standing on the same side of the world. — Yu Hong, Summer Palace It’s…
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“Yellow is a difficult color to wear.” It was the first Saturday of the 25th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, and I heard these words from the couple…
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Inland Empire (2007, Dir. David Lynch): Wake up and find out what the hell yesterday was about. I’m not too keen on tomorrow, and today’s slipping by. — Nikki Grace,…
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The Painted Veil (2006, Dir. John Curran)Lift not the painted veil which those who live Call Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there, And it but mimic all we would…
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Maybe it’s because it’s that time of year when we celebrate giving and empathy for those less fortunate; maybe it’s because such sincerity demands an ironic, clear-eyed counterbalance of tragedy…
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Babel (2006, Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu): Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad…
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The Departed (2006, Dir. Martin Scorcese): “I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.” — Jack Nicholson, The…
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"The Prestige" intrigues with a narrative that twists and turns on itself, and protagonists swamped by the chill of their own obsessions.
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Casino Royale (2006, Dir. Martin Campbell): M: While you were away, the world changed. James Bond: Not for me. – Die Another Day (2002) By some estimates, James Bond has…
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The Last Kingdom: Chapter 3 It is a brilliant summer morning with a westerly breeze, and the sun beats down on the beach, scattering along the tops of the incoming…
