Wayne Wang
2) Last holiday
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Georgia Byrd is a department store employee who leads a life of frustrated desires. She particularly likes the bashful salesman from the outdoor furnishings department. But when she learns she only has a few weeks left to live, Georgia gathers her money, quits her job, and flies to the swank European resort she's always dreamed of visiting. Naturally, her new carelessness with money and fearless candor lead everyone around her, including a senator...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The story of Marisa Ventura (Jennifer Lopez), a single mother born and bred in the boroughs of New York City who works as a maid in a first-class Manhattan hotel. By a twist of fate and mistaken identity, Marisa meets Christopher Marshall (Ralph Fiennes), a handsome heir to a political dynasty who believes that she is a guest at the hotel. Destiny throws the unlikely pair together for one night, but when Marisa's true identity is revealed, the two...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Centuries ago, two 'sworn sisters' are isolated by their families, but stay connected through a secret language written in the folds of a white silk fan. Now in modern-day Shanghai, their descendents must draw inspiration from the past as they struggle to maintain their own eternal bond in the face of life's complications. What unfolds are two stories, generations apart, but everlasting in their universal notion of love, hope and friendship.
5) Smoke
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Episodic story, divided into five chapters, each bearing the name of a character; main characters appear in most chapters. Most of the characters are connected by the fact that they hang out or work at the Brooklyn Cigar Store, where they tell stories and smoke a lot. Chapters explore the interpersonal relationships between this large and diverse group of characters.
7) Dim sum
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A Chinese immigrant widow faces the New Year with apprehension after it is predicted that it would be the year she dies. Her list of things to do, which includes seeing her daughter get married and visiting China one last time, soon comes into focus.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1188
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
DVD edition.
Language
English
Description
Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between filial duty and her desires.
11) Last holiday
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen edition.
Language
English
Description
Georgia Byrd is a department store employee who leads a life of frustrated desires. She particularly likes the bashful salesman from the outdoor furnishings department. But when she learns she only has a few weeks left to live, Georgia gathers her money, quits her job, and flies to the swank European resort she's always dreamed of visiting. Naturally, her new carelessness with money and fearless candor lead everyone around her, including a senator...
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Anywhere but here: Tired of her life in a small Wisconsin town, Adele August leaves her second husband and moves to Beverly Hills with her teenage daughter, who resents the move and her mother's dreaminess and flamboyance.
Where the heart is: After generating notoriety by giving birth in the Wal-Mart where she lives after being abandoned by her boyfriend, a teen mother begins to rebuild her life with the help of quirky strangers who become her surrogate...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1188
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray edition.
Language
English
Description
Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between filial duty and her desires.
14) Blue in the face
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Harvey Keitel returns in the uproarious follow-up to the hit comedy Smoke. It's nonstop laughs when a wacky group of locals visits the neighborhood cigar shop, looking for good times... and finding plenty of hilarious fun! But when the greedy owner threatens to close the shop for good and turn it into a trendy vegetarian restaurant the neighborhood proves they'll do just about anything to save their favorite hangout. Don't miss this highly original...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Because of Winn-Dixie : A young girl's life is changed by a scruffy dog, when the special bond between them works magic on the girl's reserved dad and the eccentric townspeople they meet that summer.
C.H.O.M.P.S : Norton Securities is about to unveil a secret weapon that'll have burglars begging for mercy - C.H.O.M.P.S., the world's first computerized watchdog! This powerful pooch is programmed to sink his teeth into crime.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Centuries ago, two 'sworn sisters' are isolated by their families, but stay connected through a secret language written in the folds of a white silk fan. Now in modern-day Shanghai, their descendents must draw inspiration from the past as they struggle to maintain their own eternal bond in the face of life's complications. What unfolds are two stories, generations apart, but everlasting in their universal notion of love, hope and friendship.
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