Steve Perry vs. Mark E. Smith

Lance Hahn once sang something like, "I'd like to see a movie about the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese point of view." Here it is, in Journey From The Fall. Ham Tran's movie opened last weekend and packed theaters in New York City, Westminister, and San Jose. The support it got in those heavily Vietnamese areas was pretty cool, but the film will truly prove its mettle if it can cross over into other audiences.

Can it be as big as The Deer Hunter or Full Metal Jacket? There's no chance with an all-Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American cast, but those who see it are likely to be impressed. It does a commendable job of doubly depicting the chaos that accompanied the fall of Saigon as well as the challenges faced by the Boat People in the U.S. Not many people are familiar with their plight, and Tran took painstaking steps to insure historical accuracy.


Director Ham Tran is interviewed in the new GR, which is at the printer now.

Puzzlemaster time: Can you think of other movie titles with two band names in it? I've thought of three so far...