By Yi Chen Born Wong Tung Jim in Canton, China on August 28, 1899, James Wong Howe, as he was known in America, is considered one of the greatest cinematographers in the history of motion pictures.  His films, Algiers (1938), Kings Row (1942), The Old Man and the Sea (1958), Seconds (1966) and Funny Lady (1975), all received Academy Award …

By Yi Chen Photos Courtesy of Wedding Palace | GoGoGo Entertainment Washington, DC – Wedding Palace is a family comedy about weddings, the Korean way. The story centers on an international online romance between a young man from Los Angeles and a young woman from Seoul. Pressured to get married by family and friends, 29-year-old advertising executive Jason Kim (Brian …

By Yi Chen Photos courtesy of Michel Shane | Hand Picked Films Washington, DC – The Art of War, an ancient Chinese military treatise written more than 2,500 years ago, is being adapted into an epic television series for western audience. “I was doing research to see if the story has ever been told in the West and to my …

By Yi Chen I was spending ten hours a day going through over a hundred hours of footage in the fall of 2012.  Like many independent documentary filmmakers, I was working on a project I felt so passionate about that I was determined to share it with the world. But there was one more thing left for me to figure …

By Yi Chen July 14, 2013 Update:   The Freer|Sackler Facebook fans chose  Days of Being Wild as the final film in tribute to Leslie Cheung. Set in Hong Kong in 1960, the film stars Cheung as Yuddy, an aimless young man who discovers that he was adopted and decides to search for his birthmother.  While on his quest he seduces and abandons a demure shop …

By Yi Chen The Historic Preservation Office accepted a proposal to increase the boundary of the Downtown Historic District that was submitted on January 8, 2013 by the DC Preservation League, a nonprofit organization. The proposal will affect 22 properties in Chinatown. Currently, Washington, DC’s Chinatown spans about 4 blocks. Its present boundaries are 5th Street NW on the east …

By: Yi Chen Washington, DC – ParkChan Wook, an internationally acclaimed Korean filmmaker has won awards from Cannes, Berlin, and Vienna. One of his biggest fans in Quentin Tarantino. He recently made his Hollywood debut with a film called Stoker, a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Shadow of Doubt. In short, Wook’s films were a perfect way to open the …