So This Is What It’s Come To: “Settling” for TIGERTAIL and the Death of the Communal Theatrical Experience

The long-awaited arrival of Alan Yang’s TIGERTAIL on Netflix underscores a new practice of viewing APA cinema, for better and, disquietingly, for worse… Continue reading So This Is What It’s Come To: “Settling” for TIGERTAIL and the Death of the Communal Theatrical Experience

#APAParkCity 2019 Has Just Wrapped Its 15th Edition. Here’s What I Thought Of It.

“The first year, it was a party. The second year, it was a happening. Now, this is an annual event. You know what we call that? We call that a tradition.” So said Winston Emano, for many years the program … Continue reading #APAParkCity 2019 Has Just Wrapped Its 15th Edition. Here’s What I Thought Of It.

Sundance 2013, Pt. 7: (Re)Connecting the Field

The 2013 Sundance Film Festival is over and OUT! And for me and my road-trip partner, we couldn’t have picked a more opportune time to leave. The cloudless, sunny ski resort town we found when we arrived the first weekend … Continue reading Sundance 2013, Pt. 7: (Re)Connecting the Field

Sundance 2013, Pt. 6: Assessing the Frenzy

It’s Saturday, the final weekend of the Sundance Film Festival, as as the award announcements are wrapping up in Park City, I am back home in relatively warm Los Angeles getting back to the business of programming a springtime Asian … Continue reading Sundance 2013, Pt. 6: Assessing the Frenzy