CAAMFest 2013: Ken Adachi's 'Dead Dad'
Ken Adachi’s debut feature Dead Dad presents
a story about grief, family, and distance, soaked in a hipster aesthetic
and set in a warm lo-fi Los Angeles cityscape.
Ken Adachi’s debut feature Dead Dad presents
a story about grief, family, and distance, soaked in a hipster aesthetic
and set in a warm lo-fi Los Angeles cityscape.
What Lin seems to have set out to do is create a noir
protagonist of color, and to undermine the seedy depiction of Chinatowns that
has existed in the popular mainstream as being populated by nameless and
faceless Chinese people.
A new top ten on American Idol, denim duct tape on Project Runway, calling out coworkers on Monday Mornings, and stalker cougars with Justin Chon on Conan.
Jiseul is the first Korean film to win the Sundance Film Festival’s prestigious World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize; the 2013 jury took less than a minute to come to its unanimous decision. O Muel’s film offers a haunting portrait of a forgotten massacre whose ghostly voices flicker into a Cold War darkness.
In Sunset Stories,
co-directors Ernesto Foronda and Silas Howard give the LA ensemble film
a relationship comedy twist, giving LA and its quirky denizens
prominent roles in this story of two former lovers randomly thrown back
into each other's lives for 24 hours.
The top ramen joints in the United States, as selected by a man who eats about 600 bowls of ramen each year
Amrit Singh's short film "Dosa Hunt" -- screening at this year's CAAMFest -- will simultaneously have you nodding your head and heading
halfway out the door for a dosa fix.
A new Top Chef is crowned, disappointments on American Idol and Project Runway, plus Monday Mornings and Michio Kaku.