Movies
Fine work by Lisa Lu and Vivian Wu can’t keep director Anna Chi’s debut, ‘Blindness,’ from turning trite.
Nov. 21, 2003
Television
This year has been a productive one for actress Vivian Wu, who this week is featured in “Danielle Steele’s Message From Nam” on NBC.
Oct. 17, 1993
There’s a scene in “Saving Face” in which Joan Chen, playing a pregnant character known only as “Ma,” wanders into a video store on the Lower East Side and haltingly asks for the Chinese section.
May 27, 2005
Archives
Ten Orange County high school seniors are among 200 Horatio Alger California Scholars who will receive $2,500 college scholarships.
May 22, 2002
In the elegant, seductive “Shadow of China” (at Cineplex Odeon Showcase) director Mitsuo Yanagimachi, in his English-language debut, plays old Hollywood-style romance against brutal recent events most effectively in a modern-day “Casablanca” of complexity and ambiguity.
March 15, 1991
Bernardo Bertolucci’s Oscar-winning “The Last Emperor,” which is being released in its 3 1/2-hour director’s cut Wednesday, is a sumptuous feast of Chinese exotica for the eyes, as well as a philosophical treatise on the possibilities of personal choice.
Nov. 22, 1998
Music
The first album in eight years from a reunited trio, plus a party mix from a cutting-edge DJ collective.
Sept. 25, 2019
More successful when mining its DePalma-esque tale of a red-dressed avenging angel than during its flatter romantic or domestic moments, first-time feature writer-director Oscar Luis Costo’s “Shanghai Red” largely emerges as a tantalizing, involving thriller.
May 4, 2012
Entertainment & Arts
Movie review: Not all is as it seems in ‘Shanghai Red’
Travel & Experiences
Vietnamese New Year, or Tet, celebrations kick off this weekend in Westminster with a string of events to ring in the Year of the Snake.
Jan. 20, 2001