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25 movies to watch to celebrate Asian and Pacific Islander heritage


25 movies to watch to celebrate Asian and Pacific Islander heritage
Brandy McDonnell, Oklahoman
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Oklahoma filmmaker James D. Payne s 2016 documentary Far Western chronicles Japan s embrace of American country music after World War II.
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the United States, and this year, it comes at a time when those communities are seeing historic strides in popular culture even as violence and racism persist. 
This comes even as the entertainment industry is offering greater exposure to Asian and Asian American filmmakers, actors and stories. At this year s Academy Awards, Youn Yuh-jung, the scene-stealing co-star of the Oklahoma-made movie Minari, made history as the first Korean performer to earn an Oscar, as did Chinese filmmaker Chloe Zhao, who became the first woman of color to win best director for her drama Nomadland.   ....

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25 movies to watch and celebrate Asian and Pacific Islander heritage


Oklahoman
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the United States, and this year, it comes at a time when those communities are seeing historic strides in popular culture even as violence and racism persist. 
This comes even as the entertainment industry is offering greater exposure to Asian and Asian American filmmakers, actors and stories. At this year s Academy Awards, Youn Yuh-jung, the scene-stealing co-star of the Oklahoma-made movie Minari, made history as the first Korean performer to earn an Oscar, as did Chinese filmmaker Chloe Zhao, who became the first woman of color to win best director for her drama Nomadland.   ....

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The Quietus | Film | Film Features | Rewilding: How First Cow, Minari, And Nomadland Reimagine The Western


Miriam Balanescu
, May 7th, 2021 09:01
Kelly Reichardt’s forthcoming First Cow, along with Oscar darlings Nomadland and Minari, bring a fresh, environmentally minded perspective to the age-old western, finds Miriam Balanescu
Several men sit at a bar, in a frontier settlement somewhere in Oregon. The Columbia river gushes nearby. They are talking about a cow, the first to be brought to the settlement via the river. Her mate and calf have not survived the journey. “This ain’t a place for cows,” one man says. “Well, it’s no place for white men either,” another replies. Their conversation feels searingly ironic when reflecting on a country whose cinematic history is dominated by white men, and whose national dish is the hamburger. Yet this is also a reminder that much of America’s multinational colonial history has been erased. ....

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