To date there has been only one trial as a result of the 2008 financial meltdown and it wasn’t one of the banks deemed too big to fail. The prosecution was of the Abacus Community Bank, founded by Thomas Sung, a lawyer who saw a need to serve his community with a bank that would… Read More »
Anthony Lucero Serves Up EAST SIDE SUSHI
The fact that Anthony Lucero was making the behind-the-scenes documentary for the next Star Wars film was incidental to why I wanted to talk to him about his feature film directorial debut, EAST SIDE SUSHI. But, since I had him there in front of my microphone, I had to try to get some information out… Read More »
CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES
A woman rises naked from the bed of her lover, dresses, walks outside and up the stairs of her duplex to spend the rest of the night, platonically, with another man. With that opening sequence of CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES, Eric Byler engages his audience from the first frame of film in a way that is irresistible.… Read More »
Eric Byler Says CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES
There were more than a few surprises in my chat with Eric Byler about his groundbreaking film, CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES. The talk quickly turned from film’s story to the story of the sexual politics within the film and within the Asian-American filmmaking community which has reacted to CHARLOTTE in surprising ways. You may never look at the… Read More »