CHEN KAIGE COMING TO AMERICA

Chen Kaige don't get no respect. He got stood up for the prom by the Weinsteins who bought, then dumped, THE PROMISE. He's made himself a laughingstock in China by going after the guy who created THE BLOODY CASE OF THE STEAMED BUN, a super popular parody of THE PROMISE, and even his own ex-wife jumped on board the criticism train to say he was a stiff.

And now THE PROMISE is playing the Tribeca Film Festival and he has to come and talk before it screens. Poor guy. Can't we all just leave him alone? Look how tired he is in this picture and that was taken months ago in Berlin. He's going to be even more exhausted now.