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...What do you intend to convey with your two new films, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Princess of Nebraska? Dawn King, Changsha, China They're two sides of the same picture. They're about two different generations of women from China, who are both in America now but have very different pasts and very different futures. There's one that's trying to forget her past and find a new identity and the other one doesn't really have a past and is trying to give herself an identity...
...mind, Chambers was responding to a heated (if esoteric) legal battle over the execution of justice in Nebraska. An alleged victim of sexual assault rape victim had sued the county judge responsible for her case because he had refused to allow her to use charged, non-legal terms like “rape” and “assailant” in her testimony. Chambers, a long-serving political dynamo and a member of the state senate’s judiciary committee, considered the woman’s suit such a waste of time for the county?...
...case, Chambers likely made his point; time will tell whether the sideshow he began will actually have any meaningful effect on the form or function of Nebraska courts. One fact has been confirmed, however: An attention-starved state senator is no match for an all-knowing God—at least before the appeals process...
Once upon a time, YouTube was a haven for amateurs, with its "broadcast yourself" tagline, home movies and lip-synched musical numbers. Now it's playing host to Hollywood professionals. On Friday, Magnolia Pictures is premiering The Princess of Nebraska, the latest film from director Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club, Maid in Manhattan), via streaming video in the recently launched YouTube Screening Room...
...Michael Moore released his latest documentary, Slacker Uprising, online and free of charge. For Magnolia, premiering Wang's film on YouTube provides a unique solution to an unusual challenge. Late last year, Wang was completing work on two films: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Princess of Nebraska, both adaptations of stories by Yiyun Li that focus on three generations of Chinese natives now living in America. Prayers, which was released in select art houses in September, tells the tale of an elderly father visiting his divorced daughter in America. Princess leaps forward a generation, depicting the challenges...