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Anora big winner at Film Independent Spirit Awards

'Anora' was the big winner at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday (22.02.25), taking three prizes including Best Feature.

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Independent Spirit Awards 2025: Oscar favorite 'Anora' sweeps top honours; Shuchi Talati's 'Girls Will Be Girls' and Baby Reindeer win big

Sean Baker's "Anora" won best film, best director and best actor for Mikey Madison at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday in what could be a preview of next Sunday's Oscars: The film about a Brooklyn sex worker and her whirlwind affair with a Russian oligarch's son has emerged in…

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What to stream: Jelly Roll, 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,' Cate Blanchett and Charli XCX remixes

Sean Wang’s semi-autobiographical feature debut “Dìdi” and Jelly Roll's 22-track album “Beautifully Broken” are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases

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The desirability of "half-Asian Chris"

The racial dynamics in Sean Wang's "Dìdi" remind me of wanting to be closer to whiteness in my Bay Area childhood

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How 'Dìdi' Recreated MySpace Pages, Found Motorola Phones, and Tapped Into Paramore Fandom to Create a 2008 Period Piece

Filmmaker Sean Wang breaks down how he created a must-see coming-of-age film set in the '00s.

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Dìdi review – bittersweet Asian American coming-of-age drama

Wang’s award-winning debut is a tender, semi-autobiographical portrait of a 13-year-old skateboarder and his devoted immigrant mum in 00s California

The Guardian - UK

Dìdi review: A subtle, sweet Y2K coming-of-ager that understands the horror of Myspace

Set in 2008, this semi-autobiographical debut takes place at a time in digital history that’s now old enough to feel like an artefact

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The comeback queen: actor Joan Chen on self-doubt, success, savagings – and a second chance at 63

Thirty-seven years after her Hollywood breakthrough in The Last Emperor, Chen is back in new drama Dìdi. She discusses her roots in China, objectification and the protective power of creativity

The Guardian - UK

Joan Chen: ‘I asked to leave Twin Peaks – I was determined to do feature films’

The star of ‘The Last Emperor’ is earning Oscar buzz for her work in the sweet coming-of-age dramedy ‘Dìdi’. She talks to Annabel Nugent about her career regrets, why she loved working with Bernardo Bertolucci, and David Lynch’s response to her request to exit his celebrated murder mystery series

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Dìdi is a rare thing: a genuinely great film about the internet

The online hyper-specificity of Sean Wang’s portrait of a Taiwanese-American teen in 2008 makes it a triumphant coming-of-age tale

The Guardian - US

Dìdi review – impressive Asian-American teen-angst drama takes the unconventional route

Sean Wang’s semi-autobiographical film offers a cool approach, swerving the usual coming-of-age tropes

The Guardian - UK

Joan Chen on Twin Peaks regrets & Dìdi

The veteran actress spoke to Salon about her new film, begging David Lynch & the challenges of immigrant motherhood

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‘In all those movies about childhood, I never saw someone who looked like me’: Sean Wang on his debut, Dìdi

The director explains how a desire to transcend race and immigrant identity led to his semi-autobiographical tale of an angst-ridden Taiwanese American teenage skater and an Oscar-nominated short about his grandmothers

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How to watch Didi

Sundance 2024 hit Didi is now playing, here's what you need to know, including if it is available on streaming.

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In Sean Wang's 'Dìdi,' a portrait of an artist as a young skater kid

Within the span of five days in January, Sean Wang’s life changed about as dramatically as is possible for a young filmmaker

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Filmmaker's Oscar-Nominated Documentary Showcases Spirited Grandmothers' Joy

Discover the heartwarming story of Wài Pó and Nai Nai, a documentary short nominated for an Academy Award that celebrates the joy of two spirited grandmothers.

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Sundance Film Festival 2024 Dispatch, Part Two: Sue Bird, Jesse Eisenberg, politicians in a simulation

Check out our second dispatch from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.

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Dìdi review – a tender, specific rendering of adolescence on the early internet

Sundance film festival: Sean Wang’s semi-autobiographical tale of an Asian American teen’s life played out online in 2008 is moving and detailed

The Independent UK

Inside the Sundance Labs, which have helped launch some of Hollywood's top filmmakers

The Sundance Institute might be best known for its annual film festival in Park City, Utah, but the screenwriting and directing labs have been just as, if not more, influential in helping to launch the first films of many of Hollywood’s top filmmakers over the past 40 years

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