Joan Chen

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1) Autumn in New York

Author

Chen, Joan

Publisher

MVD Visual

Pub. Date

[2018]

Language

English

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The passion and poignancy of classical romance take on a contemporary edge in the story of a once-in-a-lifetime love affair that unfolds in a single brief season.

2) 24 City

Publisher

Cinema Guild

Pub. Date

2009.

Language

English

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The conversion of a state-owned munitions factory into luxury high-rise apartments allows for an acute appreciation of Socialism's impact on the Chinese people and the complex social changes transforming the country in this masterful new documentary from Jia Zhang-ke. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival**. "*One of the world's preeminent filmmakers. A masterful and moving portrait.*" —J. Hoberman, ***The Village Voice***

3) Dim Sum: A Little Bit Of Heart

Publisher

Strand Releasing

Pub. Date

1985.

Language

English

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A Chinese immigrant, who is a widow, faces the New Year with apprehension after it was foretold that it would be the year she would die. All of the things she wants to do before she dies come into focus, including seeing her daughter married and visiting China one last time to pay her respects.

4) 1911

Publisher

Well Go USA

Pub. Date

2011.

Language

English

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At the beginning of the 20th century, China is in a state of crisis. The country is split into warring factions, the citizens are starving, and recent political reforms have made matters worse, not better. The ruling Qing Dynasty, led by a seven-year-old emperor, is completely out of touch after 250 years of unquestioned power. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, with no expense spared in production and no detail ignored...

5) The last emperor

Publisher

Criterion Collection

Pub. Date

[2008]

Language

English

6) Dim sum: a little bit of heart

Author

Wang, Wayne

Series

Criterion collection volume 1188

Publisher

The Criterion Collection

Pub. Date

[2023]

Language

English

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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.

7) Heaven & earth

Publisher

Warner Home Video

Pub. Date

[2004]

Language

English

Description

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Follows the true story of a Vietnamese village girl who survives a life of suffering and hardship during and after the Vietnam war.

8) Sheep Without a Shepherd

Publisher

Kino Lorber

Pub. Date

2022.

Language

Thai

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A re-make of the Indian/Malaysian film Drishyam, this Chinese box-office blockbuster is a Hollywood-esque cat-and-mouse crime thriller. Working family man and self-described movie-geek Li (Xiao Yang) is thrown into a battle of wits with the law after his daughter accidentally kills, and his wife hurriedly buries, a fellow student who had sexually molested her. The dead boy’s father is an ambitious politician, and his mother (Twin Peaks’ Joan Chen)...