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Yes! New York City’s Asian American International Film Festival is in full swing! Last night, John Sayles‘ Amigo kicked things off and the intensity continues through Sunday. Apart from the films, check out the awesome workshops, too! A biopic on Anna May Wong! You can see why Macy’s wanted in on this. I happened to catch The Warriors of Qiugang at another fest. Sounds like there’s going to be kung-fu fighting, right? But in reality it’s a documentary about poor residents in a community fighting an industrial plant and Chinese bureaucracy. Hardcore! My Country Is Tibet is screening at the Museum of Chinese in America. Jesus, they let just about everybody in this year!
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She is quietly judging your diet as you consume a double cheeseburger and slurp a hopscotch concrete. This giant Asian head will leave Madison Square Park (probably best known as the location of the original Shake Shack) after August 14. The artist is Jaume Plensa of Barcelona and this nontalking head is known as Echo. From a distance, it looks as if the face (so life-like, it seems ready to open its eyes and speak) is projected onto a blank wall, but as one approaches, the marks of a sculpture become more clear. Even though the installation was just for a little while, it’s nice to know that Asians can still get a head in the city.
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The little film that could! Coming to your town soon! This indie-to-the-core film was recently a Critics’ Pick in The New York Times. It is currently showing in Brooklyn through Aug. 5. Don’t live out here? It will be out on Aug. 30 on VOD, digital and DVD! The incredible cast includes Mark Duplass, Bret Loehr, Carr Thompson, Linas Phillips, Davie-Blue, Laura Kai Chen and Melissa Leo. Writer and director Craig Johnson, DP Kat Westergaard and editor Jennifer Lee have created a hilarious film that hits the viewer on a much deeper level, too. I know I will be feeling the highs and lows again as I put away some bacon-fat popcorn and fender dogs at the reRun Gastropub Theater. Now wipe off your fingers and click on the trailer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9gQkvUc9zI
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The legend of the lens himself, Corky Lee. The Queens Museum of Art is currently exhibiting “Asian Pacifically New York: The Photography of Corky Lee” through August 14. In the city, everybody knows Corky. He’s at nearly every Asian Pacific American event. Has been for decades. His pictures have run everywhere from Time magazine, The New York Times, The Village Voice and the Associated Press. Corky’s 1975 picture of the old Pagoda movie theater in Manhattan’s Chinatown became the cover of my second book, This Is a Bust. Yes, the museum is in the outerborough of Queens, but you haven’t seen New York until you’ve seen Queens, and you haven’t seen Asian Pacific America’s story on the East Coast until you’ve seen Corky’s work. The Queens Museum of Art, New York City Building Flushing Meadows Corona Park Queens NY 11368 Telephone: (718) 592-9700 http://www.queensmuseum.org/ info@queensmuseum.org Corky likes cool cats. Jimmy Mirikatani, former homeless artist, concentration-camp internee and subject of the documentary “The Cats of Mirikatani,” in 2007. Another Corky classic. Sikhs at a 9/11 candlelight vigil in Central Park.
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You mean I get two bucks off for the last two hours before you have to throw it all away? Awesome!
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