Double Happiness - Collector's Dolby
This alternately sweet and sour look at the first-generation immigrant experience manages the difficult task of balancing cultural specificity with universal humor and filmmaking chops. In one early scene, first time feature writer/director Mina Shum and her talented cinematographer, Peter Wunstorf, frame a bilingual family dinner as one long take by placing their camera on a lazy susan and rotating from one character to the next; this gimmick was later copied on countless amusing episodes of That...
