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I suppose you could say that Wayne Wang is our leading Chinese-American filmmaker, but I despise descriptions like that. He s a fine filmmaker, no labels needed. I bring it up only because his new film A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is the first Wang movie since 1997 to deal with Chinese themes. His previous feature, Last Holiday (2006), was the lovable comedy starring Queen Latifah at a posh Czech spa.
When I asked Wang about this hiatus in subject matter, he said: I m sorry that over the last 10 years, the kinds of films that the audience likes to watch have changed, but I will continue to make these films about Chinese-Americans, and in my own way. And that is what he has done in A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.