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Crash
(Widescreen Edition) (2004)
• Director: Paul Haggis
"If there’s an ill-tempered remark
that has ever been uttered in the city of Los Angeles that
hasn’t found its way into Paul Haggis’s “Crash,” I
can’t imagine what it is. “Crash” is about
the rage and foolishness produced by intolerance, the mutual
abrasions of white, black, Latino, Middle Eastern,
and Asian citizens in an urban pot in which nothing melts." – David
Denby, The New Yorker
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Map
of the Human Heart (2003)
• Director: Vincent Ward
"Ward's ambitious epic love story covers
two continents and three decades...Map-maker Bergin lands his
biplane in Canada's Arctic Circle and befriends an Inuit boy
with TB, flying him to a Montreal hospital, where he becomes
best friends with a half-caste Indian girl.
Ten years later, the friendship has blossomed into love. Fate
intervenes at an indecent rate, serving up plenty of misunderstandings,
but the mise-en-scène is stunning." – Time
Out
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Lost
in Translation (2003)
• Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray
• Director: Sofia Coppola
"(Coppola's) story of the chance encounter
of two dissimilar Americans at sea in a Tokyo hotel is delicately
but incisively
played out... the film is very smart about national differences,
about the strangeness of being in a place where you don't know
the cultural markers... Murray's comic timing gotten sharper
as he's gotten older... he's in a
class by himself." – Kenneth Turan, LA Times
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Bend
It Like Beckham (2002)
• Starring: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley
• Director: Gurinder Chadha
The daughter of orthodox Sikh rebels against
her parents' traditionalism by running off to Germany with
a football team (soccer in America). “...a smart, lively
and altogether warmhearted dramatic comedy that blends tradition
and modernity on screen
as adroitly as teenage Jess does in her irresistibly complicated
life...” – Kenneth Turan, LA Times
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Rabbit-Proof
Fence (2002)
• Starring:
Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury
• Director: Phillip Noyce
An unusual but true story about 3 girls
who walk 1,500 miles to escape from the trappings of a racist
policy in Australia. " Its portrait of people who see
themselves as decent, self-righteously trying to eradicate
another culture, has the impact of a swift, hard slap in
the face." – Stephen Holden, NY Times
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My
Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
• Starring: Nia Vardalos, Michael
Constantine
• Director: Joel Zwick
A good-hearted and lovable comedy about a Greek woman coming
to terms with her ethnic identity while struggling with mixed
cultural romance.
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Mulan:
Disney Gold Classic Collection (2002)
• Starring: Ming-Na, B.D.
Wong
• Director: Barry Cook, Tony Bancroft
Based on a Chinese legend of a young woman who disguises herself
as a man to serve in the army in her father's place. "Gorgeously
animated...Stirringly told!" – The Washington Post
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Seven
Years in Tibet (1997)
• Starring: Brad Pitt,
David Thewlis
• Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
In 1939, self-centered Heinrich Harrer, the famous Austrian
mountaineer, set out to climb the
Himalayas.
Instead, his fantastic journey brought him from the depths
of British prision, to the young Dalai
Lama
of
Tibet, where he eventually spend
seven years and experienced an emotional awakening.
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The
Wedding Banquet (1993)
• Starring: Winston Chao, May Chin
• Director: Ang Lee
This romantic comedy takes a look at cultural, sexual, and
generational differences. Simon
and Wei-Tung are a gay couple living together in Manhattan.
To
defer the suspicions of Wei-Tung's parents, Simon pursuades
Wei-Tung to marry a young Chinese woman in need of
a green card, resulting in several complications.
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The
Joy Luck Club (1993)
• Starring:
Tamlyn Tomita, Rosalind Chao
• Director: Wayne Wang
Four young Amercian-born Chinese women come to understand
their difficult relationships with their respective mothers
who
came to America many years ago to escape China's feudal society.
Each mother has her own view of the world
based on her experiences in China and wants to share that
vision with her daughter.
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Mississippi Masala (1992)
• Starring:
Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury
• Director: Mira Nair
This is a cultural study and a love story set
in the rural American south, when a black rug cleaner and a
daughter of Indian immigrants fall in love. Their affair causes
a rift in the community and forces the lovers' families to
examine their ideas about racial and class differences.
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Indochine (1992)
• Starring:
Catherine Deneuve
• Director: Régis Wargnier
The political changes in French Indochina cost a wealthy
French landowner her fortune and destiny, as she
finds unexpected parallel in her personal relationship
with her native adopted daughter.
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To Kill a
Mocking Bird (1962)
• Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham
• Director: Robert Mulligan
"A telling indictment of racial prejudice in the deep
South, it is also a charming tale of the emergence of two youngsters
from the realm of wild childhood fantasy to the horizon of
maturity, responsibility, compassion and social insight." – Larry
Tubelle, Variety
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Hiroshima
Mon Amour (1960)
• Starring: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji
Okada
• Director: Alain Resnais
"(This multi-award-winner) is neither an easy film to
watch nor to synopsize, but it remains one of the high-water
marks of the French "new wave" movement...complex
story concerning a French actress's experiences
in occupied France, juxtaposed with the horrendous ordeal of
a Japanese architect who survives the atomic bombing
of Hiroshima." – A.H. Weiler, NY Times
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