Storyville - Season 1 - Episodes (24)

May 27, 2008

First in a four-part series looking at China's largest restaurant looks at what it takes to run a successful restaurant business in China.

Episode 2 - A Good Match

Nov 30, -0001

Second of a four-part series looking at China's largest restaurant features the wedding between a wealthy property developer and his beautiful bride and examines attitudes towards marriage in contemporary China.

Episode 3 - Who is Bernard Tapie?

May 28, 2002

Part 3 looks at the strong sense of duty implicit in family relationships in China. Waitress Peng has sacrificed her own education to support her sister's studies, while owner Qin Linzi discusses her own difficult childhood and introduces us to her privileged daughter. The restaurant prepares a 70th birthday banquet for Sun and her family, with special dishes including steamed longevity buns and stir-fried turtle.

Episode 4 - Meeting My Daughter

Jun 24, 2002

Part 4 looks to the future with a banquet for a new baby and the anniversary show organised by the West Lake to celebrate its third year. Managers, chefs and waiting staff take to the stage in an all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza rounded off with a star turn by the owner, Qin Linzi. The restaurant addresses the high rate of staff turnover and gives the waiting staff a pay rise, while Qin discusses how important it is for her to drink with her customers.

Episode 5 - Robots Are Us

Jul 11, 2002

What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine. Why We Fight is the provocative new documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Eugene Jarecki (The Trials of Henry Kissinger) and winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Named after the series of short films by legendary director Frank Capra that explored America’s reasons for entering World War II, Why We Fight surveys a half-century of military conflicts, asking how – and answering why – a nation of, by and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a government system whose survival depends on an Orwellian state of constant war.

Episode 6 - Dark Days

Aug 8, 2002

Episode 7 - Chain Camera

Aug 8, 2002

Episode 8 - Out of Phoenix Bridge

Aug 10, 2002

Episode 9 - More Than A Life

Sep 2, 2002

Episode 10 - Louis Malle's India

Sep 3, 2002

Episode 11 - See What Happens

Sep 16, 2002