Asian Films

09 May 2024

10 Brave, Bizarre, & Beautiful Films at CAAMFest

It’s Asian-American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2024.  This also means it’s time for the 2024 edition of the annual Center for Asian-American Media Film Festival (hereafter “CAAMFest”).  Running from May 9-19, 2024, CAAMFest will screen films at the SFMOMA Phyllis Wattis Theatre, the Great Star Theater, the Roxie Theatre,

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25 Apr 2019

Silents, Spliffs, Satan, And A Shadow, Film Fests in the Bay!

Admittedly, the weekend’s opening of “Avengers: Endgame” has sucked up lots of the local filmgoing oxygen.  But for Broke-Ass readers whose cinematic tastes go beyond just big-budget superhero movies, here are some upcoming movie showings that won’t necessarily be found in your average multiplex: April 25 L’Important C’est D’Aimer (That

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27 Dec 2024

I Need To Get Real With You for a Minute

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08 Feb 2019

Why to You Should Watch More Mainstream Asian Films

Guest post by Peter Wong Why should you watch the more commercial Asian films?  Let’s paint some word pictures: *Because you’ll see some terrified passengers crawl along the car’s luggage rack to avoid the zombies which have packed a train’s passenger car (“Train To Busan”). *Hong Kong action cinema legend Chow Yun-Fat

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