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Criterion collection volume 1188
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between filial duty and her desires.
Publisher
Distributed by KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest to figure out what happened to Chan and their missing cash leads them on a journey that illuminates the pitfalls of Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A mystery man, a murder, and a wad of missing cash in his wryly offbeat breakthrough, Wayne Wang updates the ingredients of classic film noir for the streets of contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. When their business partner disappears with the money they had planned to use for a cab license, driver Jo and his nephew Steve scour the city's back alleys, waterfronts, and Chinese restaurants to track him down. But what begins as a search for a missing...
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Fitchburg - Women's History Month
WILBRAHAM - Asian American and Pacific Islander Month
Description
Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something...
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"In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in computer science, when she's recruited by Russia's largest intelligence agency. By 2018 she's in Silicon Valley as COO of Tangerine, one of America's most famous technology companies. In between her executive management (make offers to promising startups, crush them and copy their features if they refuse); self promotion (check out her latest op-ed in the WSJ, on Work/Life...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Mamma Mia! the movie : an irresistibly charming celebration of love and laughter, based on the smash Broadway hit and filled with the ABBA songs.
Jesus Christ Superstar : an interpretation of the hit rock opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber that tells the story of Jesus Christ's final weeks with groundbreaking style.
Flower Drum Song: A Chinese girl travels to America for an arranged marriage and discovers an astonishing modern world in Rodgers...
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