January 13 - January 20, 2005
ImaginAsia is holding three Tsunami benefit film showings next week and we really hope many of you can show up to generously donate. Many of us already have I am sure, but much more is needed. All three films they have chosen are fabulous. Here is the schedule:
More information here:
http://www.theimaginasian.com/events/?PHPSESSID=48872776bafad6f51228df80c6f951e2
TSUNAMI RELIEF SCREENINGS
100% of the proceeds from the following screenings go to tsunami disaster relief:
MEENAXI (India, 2004)
Tuesday, January 18 @ 7PM
A.R. Rahman music, and cinematography by DIL SE's Santosh Sivan illuminate this Indian film about a writer and his muse.
Read a review:
http://www.webindia123.com/movie/national/meenaxi/
BEAUTIFUL BOXER (Thailand, 2003)
Wednesday, January 19 @ 7PM
The true story of Thailand's muy thai champion who competed for the big bucks so he could get a sex change. One of our favorite films from last year.
Read a review:
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?isindex=beautiful+boxer
ONG BAK: THE THAI WARRIOR (Thailand, 2003)
Thursday, January 20 @ 7PM
What more needs to be said? One of the best action movies of the last ten years.
Read a review:
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?isindex=ong+bak
COMING SOON - THEATRICAL RELEASES
1/21 BEAUTIFUL BOXER
The hit Thai movie about real-life transsexual kickboxing champion.
1/21 ARAKIMENTARI
A documentary about Japan's famed photographer/pervert Nobuyoshi Araki at the ImaginAsian.
1/28 NOBODY KNOWS
Japan's feature that's been sweeping international festivals comes to the US.
1/28 EDWARD YANG RETROSPECTIVE
The Anthology hosts this retrospective of Taiwan's great director, Edward Yang, who directed YI YI.
2/9 FILM COMMENT SELECTS
A retrospective assembled by the Film Society of Lincoln Center that includes Maggie Cheung's new film, CLEAN, MEMORIES OF MURDER, Takashi Miike's IZO and more.
2/11 BRIDE AND PREJUDICE
The director of BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM directs a Bollywood version of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."
2/11 ONG BAK: MUAY THAI WARRIOR
The title's too long, but who cares? The Thai action flick that you're dying to see. Trust us: it's worth it.
2/18 SKY BLUE
Theatrical release for the animated Korean sci fi epic.
2/18 BAD GUY
A Kim Ki-Duk feature from last year, at Cinema Village. In Disturb-o-Rama.
3/3 SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE
A three day screening of Park Chan-Wook's sophomore film at BAM.
3/18 KUNG FU HUSTLE
The latest from Hong Kong comedian Stephen Chow...more of an action flick than a comedy, but something of a marvel of modern-day filmmaking.
3/18 STEAMBOY
From the director of AKIRA comes this steampunk adventure flick.
3/28 OLD BOY
Cannes Grand Prix winner and critical darling gets a US release.
4/20 SAVE THE GREEN PLANET
The cracked Korean masterpiece at Film Forum. The most violent anti-violence movie ever made!
IN GENERAL RELEASE
HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (2004, China, 119 minutes)
Zhang Yimou's visually spectacular martial arts movie is much more of a straight-forward action flick than his knotty, complex HERO. It's pretty dazzling, but it's also especially notable for the sweaty-palmed "will they or won't they" sexual tension between Zhang Ziyi and Takeshi Kaneshiro. Oh, and Andy Lau is there playing a tree stump that cries.
Read reviews:
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?isindex=house+of+flying+daggers
APPLESEED (2004, Japan)
Opens Jan. 14th at the AMC Empire 25 and the Union Square Stadium 14
Adapted from Masume Shirow's popular manga, APPLESEED is the latest theatrical anime release to hit the US. Utopias that aren't what they seem, tank mecha, snipers in ruined cities...it's all here. It's a 2-D looking movie that was all created on the computer.
Read a review:
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?%5EAppurush%eedo+(2004)
NOW PLAYING
Cinema Village
A TALE OF TWO SISTERS
Daily @ 9:30PM
Everyone's calling this a "horror movie" but don't be fooled. Director Kim Ji-Won (THE FOUL KING, THE QUIET FAMILY) takes all the cliches of Asian horror (the dead wet girls, the weird noises, the burlap bags with something bloody inside, the heavy art direction) and actually says something with them. The movie itself sounds (and looks) like a Bavarian fairy tale (and it's based on a Korean folktale). Two little girls are sent into the woods to live with their wicked stepmother, and things get very weird, very fast. But Director Kim is not trying to scare you with this flick, he's trying to turn your heart inside out. Absolutely wrenching.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10004048-tale_of_two_sisters/
for more info:
http://films.tartanfilmsusa.com/ataleoftwosisters
Film Forum
BORN INTO BROTHELS (USA, 2004)
Daily @ 2:50PM and 8:20PM
A documentary about kids growing up in the Calcutta brothels, this film is saved from a myriad of sins by the fact that the director gave cameras to the kids and let them shoot photos of their own lives. Sure - they'd probably be better off with full tuition to a boarding school, but apparently they love it and some of them are even ace photographers.
read reviews:
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?isindex=born+into+brothels
ImaginAsian Theater
(239 East 59th Street, btwn 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
RAINCOAT (2004, India, 120 minutes)
Aishwarya Rai (you know who she is) and Ajay Devgan (COMPANY, HUM DIL DE CHUKE SANAM) star in the latest film by Rituparno Ghosh (CHOKER BALI) in this depressing drama that's already being hailed as one of the best Indian films of the year. Ajay Devgan plays a failed businessman who goes back to his hometown to beg ex-classmates for money. While there he looks up with high school sweetheart, Aishwarya Rai, and finds that she's a ghost of her former self. The two spend an afternoon lying about how well they're doing and picking at now-painful memories.
read a review:
http://planetbollywood.com/Film/Raincoat/
Loew's State
SWADES (India, 2004, 180 minutes)
One of this year's much-anticipated Bollywood blockbusters. From the director of LAGAAN and with music by the incomparable A.R. Rahman, this flick finds a NASA engineer (played by Shah Rukh Khan) returning to his hometown in India to find his childhood nanny. Unfortunately, the musical numbers are thin on the ground, and the story is soooo long and soooo boring that there's not much to like. Reminiscent of India's nationalist cinema of the 1970's. Not reminiscent of anything an audience wants to watch.
Read a review:
http://www.indiafm.com/reviews/04/swades/index.shtml
Museum of Modern Art
YOKO ONO: NEW WORK
Friday, January 14 @ 8PM
Yoko Ono is back to "break down traditional boundaries and fracture entrenched narrative structures." This time she's experimenting with "digital" technology in her latest work called ONOCHORD. Whoa - a performance artist with a digital video camera? I've never heard of such a thing! Unique! Smashing!
ImaginAsia is holding three Tsunami benefit film showings next week and we really hope many of you can show up to generously donate. Many of us already have I am sure, but much more is needed. All three films they have chosen are fabulous. Here is the schedule:
More information here:
http://www.theimaginasian.com/events/?PHPSESSID=48872776bafad6f51228df80c6f951e2
TSUNAMI RELIEF SCREENINGS
100% of the proceeds from the following screenings go to tsunami disaster relief:
MEENAXI (India, 2004)
Tuesday, January 18 @ 7PM
A.R. Rahman music, and cinematography by DIL SE's Santosh Sivan illuminate this Indian film about a writer and his muse.
Read a review:
http://www.webindia123.com/movie/national/meenaxi/
BEAUTIFUL BOXER (Thailand, 2003)
Wednesday, January 19 @ 7PM
The true story of Thailand's muy thai champion who competed for the big bucks so he could get a sex change. One of our favorite films from last year.
Read a review:
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?isindex=beautiful+boxer
ONG BAK: THE THAI WARRIOR (Thailand, 2003)
Thursday, January 20 @ 7PM
What more needs to be said? One of the best action movies of the last ten years.
Read a review:
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?isindex=ong+bak
COMING SOON - THEATRICAL RELEASES
1/21 BEAUTIFUL BOXER
The hit Thai movie about real-life transsexual kickboxing champion.
1/21 ARAKIMENTARI
A documentary about Japan's famed photographer/pervert Nobuyoshi Araki at the ImaginAsian.
1/28 NOBODY KNOWS
Japan's feature that's been sweeping international festivals comes to the US.
1/28 EDWARD YANG RETROSPECTIVE
The Anthology hosts this retrospective of Taiwan's great director, Edward Yang, who directed YI YI.
2/9 FILM COMMENT SELECTS
A retrospective assembled by the Film Society of Lincoln Center that includes Maggie Cheung's new film, CLEAN, MEMORIES OF MURDER, Takashi Miike's IZO and more.
2/11 BRIDE AND PREJUDICE
The director of BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM directs a Bollywood version of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."
2/11 ONG BAK: MUAY THAI WARRIOR
The title's too long, but who cares? The Thai action flick that you're dying to see. Trust us: it's worth it.
2/18 SKY BLUE
Theatrical release for the animated Korean sci fi epic.
2/18 BAD GUY
A Kim Ki-Duk feature from last year, at Cinema Village. In Disturb-o-Rama.
3/3 SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE
A three day screening of Park Chan-Wook's sophomore film at BAM.
3/18 KUNG FU HUSTLE
The latest from Hong Kong comedian Stephen Chow...more of an action flick than a comedy, but something of a marvel of modern-day filmmaking.
3/18 STEAMBOY
From the director of AKIRA comes this steampunk adventure flick.
3/28 OLD BOY
Cannes Grand Prix winner and critical darling gets a US release.
4/20 SAVE THE GREEN PLANET
The cracked Korean masterpiece at Film Forum. The most violent anti-violence movie ever made!
IN GENERAL RELEASE
HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (2004, China, 119 minutes)
Zhang Yimou's visually spectacular martial arts movie is much more of a straight-forward action flick than his knotty, complex HERO. It's pretty dazzling, but it's also especially notable for the sweaty-palmed "will they or won't they" sexual tension between Zhang Ziyi and Takeshi Kaneshiro. Oh, and Andy Lau is there playing a tree stump that cries.
Read reviews:
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?isindex=house+of+flying+daggers
APPLESEED (2004, Japan)
Opens Jan. 14th at the AMC Empire 25 and the Union Square Stadium 14
Adapted from Masume Shirow's popular manga, APPLESEED is the latest theatrical anime release to hit the US. Utopias that aren't what they seem, tank mecha, snipers in ruined cities...it's all here. It's a 2-D looking movie that was all created on the computer.
Read a review:
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?%5EAppurush%eedo+(2004)
NOW PLAYING
Cinema Village
A TALE OF TWO SISTERS
Daily @ 9:30PM
Everyone's calling this a "horror movie" but don't be fooled. Director Kim Ji-Won (THE FOUL KING, THE QUIET FAMILY) takes all the cliches of Asian horror (the dead wet girls, the weird noises, the burlap bags with something bloody inside, the heavy art direction) and actually says something with them. The movie itself sounds (and looks) like a Bavarian fairy tale (and it's based on a Korean folktale). Two little girls are sent into the woods to live with their wicked stepmother, and things get very weird, very fast. But Director Kim is not trying to scare you with this flick, he's trying to turn your heart inside out. Absolutely wrenching.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10004048-tale_of_two_sisters/
for more info:
http://films.tartanfilmsusa.com/ataleoftwosisters
Film Forum
BORN INTO BROTHELS (USA, 2004)
Daily @ 2:50PM and 8:20PM
A documentary about kids growing up in the Calcutta brothels, this film is saved from a myriad of sins by the fact that the director gave cameras to the kids and let them shoot photos of their own lives. Sure - they'd probably be better off with full tuition to a boarding school, but apparently they love it and some of them are even ace photographers.
read reviews:
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?isindex=born+into+brothels
ImaginAsian Theater
(239 East 59th Street, btwn 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
RAINCOAT (2004, India, 120 minutes)
Aishwarya Rai (you know who she is) and Ajay Devgan (COMPANY, HUM DIL DE CHUKE SANAM) star in the latest film by Rituparno Ghosh (CHOKER BALI) in this depressing drama that's already being hailed as one of the best Indian films of the year. Ajay Devgan plays a failed businessman who goes back to his hometown to beg ex-classmates for money. While there he looks up with high school sweetheart, Aishwarya Rai, and finds that she's a ghost of her former self. The two spend an afternoon lying about how well they're doing and picking at now-painful memories.
read a review:
http://planetbollywood.com/Film/Raincoat/
Loew's State
SWADES (India, 2004, 180 minutes)
One of this year's much-anticipated Bollywood blockbusters. From the director of LAGAAN and with music by the incomparable A.R. Rahman, this flick finds a NASA engineer (played by Shah Rukh Khan) returning to his hometown in India to find his childhood nanny. Unfortunately, the musical numbers are thin on the ground, and the story is soooo long and soooo boring that there's not much to like. Reminiscent of India's nationalist cinema of the 1970's. Not reminiscent of anything an audience wants to watch.
Read a review:
http://www.indiafm.com/reviews/04/swades/index.shtml
Museum of Modern Art
YOKO ONO: NEW WORK
Friday, January 14 @ 8PM
Yoko Ono is back to "break down traditional boundaries and fracture entrenched narrative structures." This time she's experimenting with "digital" technology in her latest work called ONOCHORD. Whoa - a performance artist with a digital video camera? I've never heard of such a thing! Unique! Smashing!
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