A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

Henry O was awesome in the role as Mr Shi. He's so cute and adorable that you tend to love the way he walks and speaks. Love the scene in the pool with the bikini girl. I hope people can relate... Full review

Henry O was awesome in the role as Mr Shi. He's so cute and adorable that you tend to love the way he walks and speaks. Love the scene in the pool with the bikini girl. I hope people can relate... Full review

Each scene is beautifully composed, backlight silhouetting the characters and their standoff. For the better part of Wang's calming film, so low-key that it gentles the nervous system like a deep-breathing exercise, cheery Dad (Henry O) takes tentative steps toward dour Daughter (Feihong Yu), who backs away. ... Full Review

If there was a movie more fitting of the title Lost in Translation than the actual film with that name, it's Wayne Wang's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers . He quietly but effectively navigates generational and cultural fissures, while superb performances make the film's somewhat predictable emotional climax feel genuine. ... Full Review

The film shines brightest when emphasizing these misplaced souls.....November 6th, 2008 "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" is a lovely film of small intentions, yet embellished with an enormous heart.....The payoff of Yilan's distance is a complicated issue that fits uncomfortably with the rest of the movie dramatically, yet fulfills thematic requirements appropriately.....These moments capture the passion Wang is hoping for, sitting down with two lonely people.... ... Full Review

This quiet, telling film rings with universal truths, and emerges as superb, understated drama. ... Full Review

His film quietly, carefully, movingly observes how these two people of the same blood will never be able to understand each other, and the younger one won't even care to. You don't understand. ... Full Review

Director Wayne Wang, best known for his adaptation of Amy Tan's celebrated novel The Joy Luck Club , has kept himself at the forefront of Asian-oriented filmmakers even while making a variety of crowd-pleasing commercial films ( Maid in Manhattan... ... Full Article

It's one of those hilly East Bay neighborhoods where a lone garage is the only clue that there's a house down in the culvert. Yiyun Li opens the door, murmuring apologies - she's only two minutes late - looking like... ... Full Article

Eminent Manipuri director Aribham Shyam Sharma inaugurated the fifth edition of International Film Festival of Thrissur (IFFT), the second largest film festival in Kerala on Friday. ... Full Article

In one striking shot in "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers," a bright red train inches across a bridge high atop an emerald-green valley. The scene establishes the movie's sense of calm as well as the idea that it's about... ... Full Article

Rated R for strong bloody violence and gore, language, drug and sexual content. Theater: Lagoon. You thought "Sweeney Todd" was bloody? It's a skinned knee compared with "Repo! ... Full Article

After years of maneuvering the Hollywood waters with variable results, San Francisco director Wayne Wang returns to the low-budget Chinese-American subjects that initially brought him success. ... Full Article