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This event, with an annual attendance of approximately 250 people, features student performances, food from Boston's Chinatown and traditional Chinese dragons...
...Chinatown, Roman Polanski's hardboiled masterpiece about L.A. in the 1940s, starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Harvard Film Archive...
...love you.'" Yet reconciliation informed many of the festival works, including two lovely playlets, Lucas' What I Meant Was (a young man reimagines the dinner-table arguments he's had with his family, so that everyone is now rueful and forgiving) and Hwang's Trying to Find Chinatown (a Caucasian and a Chinese discover detente in their crisscrossing cultural identities). Joan Ackermann's sweet, funny The Batting Cage takes a comic cliche, the smothering sister (enchantingly embodied by Veanne Cox), and gives her life and depth as she comes to terms with her family...
Seasons instruct us, then, in a subtler way of being; they initiate us into a process more universal than the new year (which is, after all, celebrated at one time in Chinatown and another time in midtown), and more flexible than moons. All of us have our own calendars (April 15 means taxes, and next Thursday is Cindy's birthday), and all of us think in terms of spring cleaning or fall fashions. But seasons induct us into a world of divisions that are never hard and fast (soft and slow, rather); they offer lessons about constancy and flux...
Russell's only film education came from a high school girlfriend who got into movies free through a relative, there wasn't much to do in suburban Larchmont, New York. "I saw Shampoo, Chinatown and Taxi Driver about five times," he recalls. After studying literature and government at Amherst, he toiled at various jobs while making short films. The director admits he mines material from a vein pretty close to home, and Flirting is based in part on his adopted sister's search for her biological parents. But when asked why his films treat parents with such disrespect...