Streaming Options: The Good, the Bad, and the Undead1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWith cinemas closed, online streaming is the main source for new entertainment. This weekend you can choose among Asian gangsters, trolls and New York vampires.
The Good: ‘The Wild Goose Lake’
This month, Pacific Arts Movement (Pac-Arts), which presents the San Diego Asian Film Festival, had to cancel its Spring Showcase. That not only means it cannot highlight new Asian films but also that it has no means of bringing in any money to keep its nonprofit organization running. So, as with the San Diego Latino Film Festival, it is testing out some streaming options in which people can buy virtual tickets to a film its sponsoring and then part of the ticket sales go back to the organization.
The first film Pac-Arts is offering through this virtual ticketing is Diao Yinan’s The Wild Goose Lake, which screened at last year’s San Diego Asian Film Festival.
I always appreciate artistic director Brian Hu’s programming choices because he doesn’t go for the easy crowd-pleaser but rather the more creatively daring work. Diao’s Black Coal, Thin Ice also played at a previous festival and both films display an Asian pop neo-noir sensibility.
Image credit: Film Movement
