The story of filmmaking in New York City is incomplete without consideration of the foreign-language films that are regularly made here. Such films—off the top of my head, I’m thinking of at least a dozen Bollywood spectaculars and Tamil dramas, and many Chinatown pictures, including Hong Kong films like Stanley Kwan’s Full Moon in New York (1989), Peter Chan’s Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996) and gangster movies like Tongs: A Chinatown Story (1986), as well as Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet (1993), made in Mandarin-speaking Flushing with Taiwanese funding—can offer an insider’s view of the many ethnic enclaves in our polyglot city, or an outsider’s view of the place we call home. Sunrise/Sunset is an American film, the debut effort of an American filmmaker, Jong Ougie Pak. Yet the movie, which is almost entirely in Korean, feels of a piece with movies that gaze...
- 6/12/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
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