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This is our final SFIAAFF/Castro Theatre giveaway. Write a haiku using the word "interracial," and enter to win a pair of tickets to the epic Diamond Head on Sunday afternoon, which was pulled from the Hollywood vaults. The winner will be notified by 3:00 p.m. today.

Here is our fourth SFIAAFF/Castro Theatre giveaway. Write a haiku using the word "Bollywood," and enter to win a pair of tickets to Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi on Sunday night, which sure looks like a fun movie. The winner will be notified by 2:00 p.m. today.

And now for our third SFIAAFF/Castro Theatre ticket giveaway. Write a haiku using the words "gay," "teen," and "love," and enter to win a pair of tickets to The Love of Siam on Saturday afternoon. The winner will be notified tomorrow morning.

Here's our second SFIAAFF/Castro Theatre ticket giveaway. Write a haiku with the words "love" and "death," and enter to win a pair of tickets to the Saturday afternoon screening of The Equation Between Love and Death at the Castro Theatre. The winner will be notified tomorrow afternoon.

The San Francisco Int'l Asian American Film Festival starts tomorrow, and we have five pairs of tickets to give away to the Castro Theatre screenings this weekend.

Two words that kept going through my mind while watching Flight of the Red Balloon were "gentle" and "beautiful." The imagery that director Hou Hsiao-hsien includes in this movie was reminiscent of the film The Red Balloon of which it was loosely based on, but Flight takes the themes of that movie further.

When we heard about a "live-action" version of Death Note, the manga/anime series, we were skeptical. The elements of anime that makes it, well, anime are the fantasy behind the whole genre: scary, grotesque creatures, futuristic buildings and cars, supernatural events. Anime just doesn't seem to lend itself well to "live-action." It's difficult to imagine all of the imagery of anime coming together in a live-action version, at least in a believable way. To be truthful, we were scared mostly of the cheeseball potential this movie has -- in order to prepare for the movie, we didn't. We went in cold turkey: no looking at movie trailers, no imdb.com'ing the actors, no re-reading the synopsis, nothing.

The title of Nobuhiro Yamashita's A Gentle Breeze in the Village poignantly conveys the tone of this film. Witnessing the gentle coming of age of young Soyo (played by Kaho), the oldest of the students in her small, combined elementary and middle school, personifies for the viewer the lush yet gentle breeze that reverberates throughout the beautiful landscape shots of the Japanese countryside. Oh, to be young and going to the beach and playing with your friends again every day all summer--oh, and getting chased by ghosts on railroad tracks. Each young character is so "full of love" for her friends, to quote a few of the characters themselves.

Last night's screening of Wayne Wang's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers on opening night of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival was a sheer delight. The film is based on Bay Area author Yiyun Li’s book of short stories. Wayne Wang was there to present the film to us, and then he and star Henry O answered questions after the film. Afterwards, everyone headed over to the Asian American Art Museum for the big opening night Gala.