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Some may think Paul Giamatti the most maligned Sideways cast member from his lack of Academy Award accolades this year, but really the continually overlooked one is Sandra Oh.
A mainstay in Canadian cinema and a familiar face from various supporting roles on television and in movies, Oh has been on our radar from long before she married director Alexander Payne. Although as far as Hollywood couples go, they make for a pretty cute pair. Her thoughtful, textured performances in Double Happiness (1994) and Last Night (1998) make both of these films must adds to the rental list.
In 2002, Oh paired up again with her director from Double Happiness Mina Shum to make Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity about a single mom whose young daughter dabbles in Taoist magic to help her mother find love. It's the next film in the Asian CineVisions series, a group of traveling films programmed by the same group which brings the Asian American International Film Festival to New York every summer.
Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity plays tonight at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens at 7:30 pm and then again next Wednesday at Cinema Village also at 7:30 pm. Get 50 percent off future Asian CineVisions screenings by signing up for their mailing list on the website. Gothamist sure does love a discount on good movies and we know you do too.
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I love Double Happiness. It's a touchstone for any Asian-North American girl who doesn't know how to speak Chinese. And Sandra Oh was the only great thing about Arli$$.
i just discussed sandra oh on filmbrain's sight. i think hollywood prefers it's asians, you know, REALLY asian, not asian-american.
She's also set to start in 'Smells Like Butter' to be directed by Grace Lee (http://www.gracelee.net):
The romantic comedy is set in Seoul and Los Angeles. Grace Lee will direct the film, a cultural transition centered on a young Korean-American struggling with the habits and environment of her ancestors' country.
"overlooked"? PAH-LEEZE! Hack who was lucky enough to marry a director with a little indiscriminate asian-fever is more like it.
Those quick to shower Oh in accolades need look no further than Arli$$, a show for which she, the rest of the cast and everyone at HBO should be banished to the shadow realm.