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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...
...Will your new films be released in mainland China? Sophie Li, Guangzhou, China I hope that Princess of Nebraska will be put on YouTube [in China] and released for free. Thousand Years was originally supposed to be financed by a Chinese company and then it fell apart because there were lines in the movie that they felt very sensitive about. You never know what they're looking for in terms of censorship...
...What film directors have inspired your work? Alan Eggleston, Grand Rapids, Mich. Thousand Years was very much influenced by a Japanese director called [Yasujiro] Ozu. Princess of Nebraska is a tribute to the French New Wave - to directors like Jean-Luc Godard...
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...
...Last month, 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...