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Biden Pulls the Plug
NYT: Biden’s Letter Withdrawing Can be reached at gregghc@comcast.net, profgreggwmorris@gmail.com
BREAKING AND RE-ENTERING (Recently Screened at the 2024 NYAFF) – This Film Directed by Ding-Lin Wang Could Blow Your Mind Unlike Any Other You May Have Seen Recently
Audiences should anticipate being so hooked watching BREAKING AND RE-ENTERING that they might be swept up by that hunger to see the film again and again and again, as fast as they can. – Review Article by Gregg W. Morris
The Latest New York Asian Film Festival Alert: Thrill Seekers’ Delight: Five Chilling Films to Beat the Heat
As the summer heatwave grips New York City, NYAFF invites you to cool down with a selection of spine-tingling thrillers at the ongoing Festival. Each film offers a distinctive mix of suspense, horror, and psychological intrigue, weaving themes of injustice,…
NYAFF 2024 | Second Wave of Highlights Unveiled
North American Premier
SUPPOSED Film Review
SUPPOSED Is in the NYAFF 2024 Category of “Original films that break away from formalistic and,or narrative conventions. Directed by Thanakorn Pongsuwan, Thailand, 2023 | North American Premiere. This is a must-see film that many will want to see more than once.
POPULATION PURGE Film Review
The 23rd New York Asian American Film Festival, July 12 -28
This year’s NYAFF features more than 90 new and classic titles from China, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Mongolia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and beyond, with nine world premieres, 12 international premieres, and 38 North American premieres.
A Pensive, Mesmerizing Eulogy About the Brazilian Teammates of a Downhill Skateboarding Icon – Allysson Pastrana – Coming to Terms with their Existential Angst Over His Sudden Death During a Downhill Speeding Competition
Inspired by one of the film’s directors, this is a bitter-sweet tale about downhill skateboarders coming to grips with the existential grief they are experiencing over the death of a teammate who died in a competition. This film is tagged as a documentary-drama-sport-movie yet it’s filmmaking is infused with a fierce spirituality that is cosmic, surrealistic and transcendent.
– By Gregg W. Morris
Director Sabrina Van Tassel’s Bitter-Sweet, Melancholic Tour de Force Nearly Blew This Reviewer Out of His Seat
Woven in the thick, ethnographic fabric of Van Tassel’s poignant documentary narrative – in her pursuit of truth-the-whole-truth-&-nothing-but-the-truth – are sketches, vignettes, anecdotes, stories, customs, traditions, practices, sociopolitical analysis, and histories (regional and national). The result is an extraordinary story that absolutely has to be told and re-told, seen and re-seen, echoed and reechoed: The genocide is real and so are efforts to end it once and for all.
– Article-Review by Gregg W. Morris