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On this special episode, we're looking at the 2006 documentary film, The Slanted Screen.

This documentary from Jeff Adachi looks at the portrayal of Asian men in American films.

Now, I saw The Slanted Screen probably, I know I saw it, after I saw another film, which

was called Hollywood Chinese.

Hollywood Chinese came out, I believe, in 2008, 2009, I want to say.

No, sorry, 2007.

And I saw that at the Toronto Film Festival years ago, and that one, it had a more A-list cast, let's say, as far as some of the folks that were in there, you know, actually having James Hong in there, and Wayne Wang, Nancy Kwan, Ang Lee, all these folks.

But it was more general as far as just talking about how

Chinese people have been portrayed in film. And it was very specifically Chinese when it was coming

to that. So it wasn't all Asian people. And it really felt like that documentary, it really spoke

about a kind of a lost film that was found and being preserved,

and it almost felt like this is a PBS special that we're going to run before we actually

run the film that night. So it told me a lot, but it also glossed over a lot. And it really,

you know, it brought up a lot of similar things between the two

films. But when I saw the slanted screen, I thought that that was the better film, because it was

more encompassing as far as all Asians, though it was very particular to Asian men. I did like

that Hollywood Chinese had Asian women or Chinese women as well, but the slanted

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