Chinese food, German wines, Berlin

Jianhua Wu recently hosted a promotional buffet for some of Germany’s leading winemakers at his Berlin restaurant, Hot Spot.
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
Published: September 9, 2010

BERLIN — As this country continues its uneasy dialogue about integration, spurred on by an anti-immigrant book written by an executive of the central bank, the restaurant owner Jianhua Wu is busy selling wine, promoting wine, eagerly and enthusiastically sampling and sipping wine. Not just any wine, but German wine. More

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Modus Operandi
A Violent Homage to Genre Films
By MIKE HALE
Published: September 9, 2010

With its deliberate clumsiness, its seemingly random juxtapositions and a handmade look achieved through slavish attention to film stock, lighting, fashions and furnishings, Frankie Latina’s “Modus Operandi” bears a greater surface resemblance to the 1960s and ’70s genre films to which it pays homage than Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s “Grindhouse” did. More

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