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On October 14, THE PRESIDENT'S LAST BANG
opens at Cinema Village
(http://www.cinemavillage.com/chc/cv/)
and at the ImaginAsian
(http://www.theimaginasian.com/index2.php)
and KINO has given us an insane prize package
to offer to some lucky smarty pants this week!
The prize package?
TWO tickets to see THE PRESIDENT;S LAST BANG!
The following FOUR Kino Korean DVDs:
TELL ME SOMETHING
TAKE CARE OF MY CAT
CHIWAESON
UNTOLD SCANDAL
ONE poster of
THE PRESIDENT'S LAST BANG
signed by director Im Sang-Soo!!!
To win these prizes you must:
1) Want to see THE PRESIDENT'S LAST BANG (and you do!)
2) Be signed up for our new email service (and you must!), and
3) Correctly answer the following question (and you will!):
All of the following film titles all sound kinda dirty:
THE PRESIDENT'S LAST BANG
TAKE CARE OF MY CAT
UNTOLD SCANDAL
and most of all...
CHIWASEON
(careful, don't get any on ya!)
YET... sex is only central to one of these.
Which one?
Send your answer to pandashine@yahoo.com
We'll take all the correct answers coming from
addresses that are signed up for our new email
service, put them in a hat, and pick a winner.
The contest is open until Tuesday, Oct. 11.
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COMING SOON
THE PRESIDENT'S LAST BANG (Oct. 14)
Kino trots out this super-controversial Korean flick about the assassination of President Park back in the early 80's - starring the always-incredible Han Suk-Gyu and Baek Yoon-Sik (the CEO in SAVE THE GREEN PLANET). Totally scatological, funnier than a film about presidential assassination has any right to be, and so well-made and intense that it puts American political thrillers to shame.
read a review:
http://www.koreanfilm.org/kfilm05.html#lastbang
THE OVERTURE (Oct. 9)
Thailand's posh period flick about dueling xylophone players is coming from Kino this October. While it can be a little staid at times, the blazing xylophone duels are pretty hot stuff. It opens Oct. 9 on the West Coast and then comes to NYC.
MIKIO NARUSE RETROSPECTIVE (Oct. 21 - Nov. 17)
Another Japanese master who's rarely seen getting the deep retro treatment from Film Forum.
100 YEARS OF CHINESE CINEMA (Oct. 21 - Nov. 10)
They can't show all 100 years, but they manage to hit a lot of the highlights in this Walter Reade retro.
KENJI MIZOGUCHI RETROSPECTIVE (Oct. 31 - Nov. 22)
Japan's often-unseen master gets a full retro (well, pretty full) out at BAM.
PULSE (Nov. 9)
Coming out in the fall, this is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's most accessible flick, and one of the best Japanese horror movies ever made. If you-re tired of dead wet girls with long black hair then this one's for you.
read a review:
http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/kairo.shtml
NOW PLAYING (or perhaps, not. Sorry, but Grady's in L.A., Brian's in Dublin, Paul and Goran are in Pusan, and God Knows where Daniel is this week! Anyway, all of the following is really last week's info. Some might still be correct... some might not!)
Wong Kar-wai's 2046 is still screening here and there (sorry... you're going to have to look up the venues for this one on your own this week) . It features Tony Leung Chiu-wai flirting with and seducing Faye Wong, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau and, most memorably, Zhang Ziyi. A spiritual successor to IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, this WKW movie represents the end of the road for the DAYS OF BEING WILD crowd.
read reviews:
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/2046
Cinema Village
BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS (2003, China/Paris, 111 minutes)
This French/Chinese film, directed by Chinese director Dai Sijie and based on his best-selling novel of the same title, is a lot better than you'd think. Combining his memories of being sent down to the countryside for re-education, his love for Western literature, and the Three Gorges Dam Project into a gorgeous, well-acted, occasionally gruesome love letter to his youth this flick is worth your time if you're into this sort of thing.
read a review:
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/balzacandthelittlechineseseamstress
Film Forum (on Houston, just east of the Ave of the Americas)
SEVEN SAMURAI (Japan, A long time ago)
Starts October 5.
Am I the only fan of Asian cinema who finds this Kurosawa classic underwhelming?
ImaginAsian Theater(239 East 59th Street, btwn 2nd and 3rd Ave)
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Nabokov's LOLITA, the ImaginAsian is screening Eiji Okuda's critically-praised, Lolita-remix, SHOUJYO: AN ADOLESCENT, where everything doesn't have to end in tragedy. Please contact the theatre for showtimes.
NORTH KOREA: A DAY IN THE LIFE (48 minutes)
SEOUL TRAIN (54 minutes)
Daily @ 12:30PM, 2:40PM, 4:50PM, 7:00PM
A documentary double feature. SEOUL TRAIN looks at the underground railroad ferrying North Koreans down to South Korea, and NORTH KOREA: A DAY IN THE LIFE is a North Korean approved documentary look at the daily life of a textile worker. But the director uses a variety of methods to subtly critique what he's showing. Intelligent!
Japan Society
AFTER THE WAR: September 27 - October 23
A screening series looking at postwar Japan.
Go here for full details:
http://www.japansociety.org/events/category.cfm?id_category=1
OUT OF THIS WORLD (2003, Japan, 123 minutes)
Sunday, October 9 @ 2PM
A bunch of Japanese musicians try to make their living catering to the taste for jazz that the Occupation Forces have, make their way as a band performing on military bases. Jo Odagiri and Peter Mullan perform in this flick about doing what you need to do to survive. Introduced by director Junji Sakamoto and followed by a reception.
more details:
http://www.japansociety.org/events/event_detail.cfm?id_event=1130202519&id_performance=171129198
JAPANESE DEVILS (2001, Japan, 160 minutes)
Sunday, October 16 @ 2PM
The SHOAH of Japanese war crimes, this exhausting documentary looks on as several Japanese veterans finally talk about what they did during the war.
more details:
http://www.japansociety.org/events/event_detail.cfm?id_event=1373758248&id_performance=1923182362
A MAN'S FACE IS HIS RESUME (1966, Japan, 89 minutes)
Sunday, October 23 @ 2PM
Tai Kato, one of Japan's most undervalued and stylish directors, offers up a brutal, noir look at simmering racial tensions in postwar Japan.
more details:
http://www.japansociety.org/events/event_detail.cfm?id_event=374869285&id_performance=749416326
Loew's State Theater
DIL JO BHI KAHEY (2005, India, 144 minutes)
Amitabh Bachchan in a family film about a cultural clash between traditional and modern values and you wanna bet love conquers all? Yeah, it probably does.
read a bit about it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/films/bollywood/2005/07/dil_jo_bhi_kahey_preview.shtml
SALAAM NAMASTE (India, 2005)
The latest movie from India's Walt Disney, Yash Raj, is family-friendly entertainment with an urban romantic edge. It's making tons of money in the USA already and it's an "I hate you, I love you" romance between a chef played by Saif Ali Khan and a radio host played by Preity Zinta both living in Australia.
read a review:
http://planetbollywood.com/Film/SalaamNamaste/
MoMA
Early Autumn:Masterworks of Japanese Cinema from the National Film Center, Tokyo
Now thru January 2006
Japan's National Film Center opens its archives and releases 53 prints of some of Japan's classic must-see films.
For the historically-minded, there's rare, early classics on hand like MR. THANK YOU, RICKSHAW MAN, WHERE CHIMNEYS ARE SEEN and INO AND MON.
If you're looking for early work by major directors, there's Mizoguchi's SISTERS OF THE GION and Kurosawa's SUGATA SANSHIRO.
And if you like your movies pulpy, don't miss MATANGO (ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE), GHOST STORY OF YOTSUYA and the first ZATOICHI movie, here called: THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF MASSEUR ICHI.
Full listings:
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_media/2005/japanese_cinema.html
Symphony Space
HERO (2002, China)
Oct 9 @ 8PM
Oct 10 @ 8PM
Oct 11 @ 4:45PM
Jet Li returns to prestige filmmaking in a film that reminds us that historical "truth" is always decided by the winners.
read some reviews:
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?^Ying+xiong+(2002)
Walter Reade
NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL (Sept. 24 - October 20)
SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE! THE PRESIDENT'S LAST BANG! WHO'S CAMUS ANYWAY? New Hou Hsiao-hsien! Plus a 35 film Shochiku retrospective. Tickets are on sale!
Go here for fun:
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
SUBWAY CINEMA and KINO INTERNATIONAL!
On October 14, THE PRESIDENT'S LAST BANG
opens at Cinema Village
(http://www.cinemavillage.com/chc/cv/)
and at the ImaginAsian
(http://www.theimaginasian.com/index2.php)
and KINO has given us an insane prize package
to offer to some lucky smarty pants this week!
The prize package?
TWO tickets to see THE PRESIDENT;S LAST BANG!
The following FOUR Kino Korean DVDs:
TELL ME SOMETHING
TAKE CARE OF MY CAT
CHIWAESON
UNTOLD SCANDAL
ONE poster of
THE PRESIDENT'S LAST BANG
signed by director Im Sang-Soo!!!
To win these prizes you must:
1) Want to see THE PRESIDENT'S LAST BANG (and you do!)
2) Be signed up for our new email service (and you must!), and
3) Correctly answer the following question (and you will!):
All of the following film titles all sound kinda dirty:
THE PRESIDENT'S LAST BANG
TAKE CARE OF MY CAT
UNTOLD SCANDAL
and most of all...
CHIWASEON
(careful, don't get any on ya!)
YET... sex is only central to one of these.
Which one?
Send your answer to pandashine@yahoo.com
We'll take all the correct answers coming from
addresses that are signed up for our new email
service, put them in a hat, and pick a winner.
The contest is open until Tuesday, Oct. 11.
NOTE: If you have not yet signed up for our new
email service, here's how to do so (and why we
need you to do so):
******************************************
THIS IS IT! THE TIME HAS COME!
We are automating the maintenance of our weekly
email list. For Subway's Paul Kz, this means that he
will no longer have to dedicate roughly 2 hours of
his time each week to this cumbersome task. To you,
well, it simply means you need to re-subscribe
through our new automated service, or else you will
no longer receive these Updates. Please follow
these steps to re-subscribe:
1) Print the following instuctions and then click the following link:
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First, your browser should change to a message reading:
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5) This will result in your browser opening to the following message:
"Success! You should begin receiving your weekly Subway Cinema News shortly!"
6) That's it!
******************************************
OK, well on with the News!
COMING SOON
THE PRESIDENT'S LAST BANG (Oct. 14)
Kino trots out this super-controversial Korean flick about the assassination of President Park back in the early 80's - starring the always-incredible Han Suk-Gyu and Baek Yoon-Sik (the CEO in SAVE THE GREEN PLANET). Totally scatological, funnier than a film about presidential assassination has any right to be, and so well-made and intense that it puts American political thrillers to shame.
read a review:
http://www.koreanfilm.org/kfilm05.html#lastbang
THE OVERTURE (Oct. 9)
Thailand's posh period flick about dueling xylophone players is coming from Kino this October. While it can be a little staid at times, the blazing xylophone duels are pretty hot stuff. It opens Oct. 9 on the West Coast and then comes to NYC.
MIKIO NARUSE RETROSPECTIVE (Oct. 21 - Nov. 17)
Another Japanese master who's rarely seen getting the deep retro treatment from Film Forum.
100 YEARS OF CHINESE CINEMA (Oct. 21 - Nov. 10)
They can't show all 100 years, but they manage to hit a lot of the highlights in this Walter Reade retro.
KENJI MIZOGUCHI RETROSPECTIVE (Oct. 31 - Nov. 22)
Japan's often-unseen master gets a full retro (well, pretty full) out at BAM.
PULSE (Nov. 9)
Coming out in the fall, this is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's most accessible flick, and one of the best Japanese horror movies ever made. If you-re tired of dead wet girls with long black hair then this one's for you.
read a review:
http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/kairo.shtml
NOW PLAYING (or perhaps, not. Sorry, but Grady's in L.A., Brian's in Dublin, Paul and Goran are in Pusan, and God Knows where Daniel is this week! Anyway, all of the following is really last week's info. Some might still be correct... some might not!)
Wong Kar-wai's 2046 is still screening here and there (sorry... you're going to have to look up the venues for this one on your own this week) . It features Tony Leung Chiu-wai flirting with and seducing Faye Wong, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau and, most memorably, Zhang Ziyi. A spiritual successor to IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, this WKW movie represents the end of the road for the DAYS OF BEING WILD crowd.
read reviews:
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/2046
Cinema Village
BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS (2003, China/Paris, 111 minutes)
This French/Chinese film, directed by Chinese director Dai Sijie and based on his best-selling novel of the same title, is a lot better than you'd think. Combining his memories of being sent down to the countryside for re-education, his love for Western literature, and the Three Gorges Dam Project into a gorgeous, well-acted, occasionally gruesome love letter to his youth this flick is worth your time if you're into this sort of thing.
read a review:
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/balzacandthelittlechineseseamstress
Film Forum (on Houston, just east of the Ave of the Americas)
SEVEN SAMURAI (Japan, A long time ago)
Starts October 5.
Am I the only fan of Asian cinema who finds this Kurosawa classic underwhelming?
ImaginAsian Theater(239 East 59th Street, btwn 2nd and 3rd Ave)
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Nabokov's LOLITA, the ImaginAsian is screening Eiji Okuda's critically-praised, Lolita-remix, SHOUJYO: AN ADOLESCENT, where everything doesn't have to end in tragedy. Please contact the theatre for showtimes.
NORTH KOREA: A DAY IN THE LIFE (48 minutes)
SEOUL TRAIN (54 minutes)
Daily @ 12:30PM, 2:40PM, 4:50PM, 7:00PM
A documentary double feature. SEOUL TRAIN looks at the underground railroad ferrying North Koreans down to South Korea, and NORTH KOREA: A DAY IN THE LIFE is a North Korean approved documentary look at the daily life of a textile worker. But the director uses a variety of methods to subtly critique what he's showing. Intelligent!
Japan Society
AFTER THE WAR: September 27 - October 23
A screening series looking at postwar Japan.
Go here for full details:
http://www.japansociety.org/events/category.cfm?id_category=1
OUT OF THIS WORLD (2003, Japan, 123 minutes)
Sunday, October 9 @ 2PM
A bunch of Japanese musicians try to make their living catering to the taste for jazz that the Occupation Forces have, make their way as a band performing on military bases. Jo Odagiri and Peter Mullan perform in this flick about doing what you need to do to survive. Introduced by director Junji Sakamoto and followed by a reception.
more details:
http://www.japansociety.org/events/event_detail.cfm?id_event=1130202519&id_performance=171129198
JAPANESE DEVILS (2001, Japan, 160 minutes)
Sunday, October 16 @ 2PM
The SHOAH of Japanese war crimes, this exhausting documentary looks on as several Japanese veterans finally talk about what they did during the war.
more details:
http://www.japansociety.org/events/event_detail.cfm?id_event=1373758248&id_performance=1923182362
A MAN'S FACE IS HIS RESUME (1966, Japan, 89 minutes)
Sunday, October 23 @ 2PM
Tai Kato, one of Japan's most undervalued and stylish directors, offers up a brutal, noir look at simmering racial tensions in postwar Japan.
more details:
http://www.japansociety.org/events/event_detail.cfm?id_event=374869285&id_performance=749416326
Loew's State Theater
DIL JO BHI KAHEY (2005, India, 144 minutes)
Amitabh Bachchan in a family film about a cultural clash between traditional and modern values and you wanna bet love conquers all? Yeah, it probably does.
read a bit about it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/films/bollywood/2005/07/dil_jo_bhi_kahey_preview.shtml
SALAAM NAMASTE (India, 2005)
The latest movie from India's Walt Disney, Yash Raj, is family-friendly entertainment with an urban romantic edge. It's making tons of money in the USA already and it's an "I hate you, I love you" romance between a chef played by Saif Ali Khan and a radio host played by Preity Zinta both living in Australia.
read a review:
http://planetbollywood.com/Film/SalaamNamaste/
MoMA
Early Autumn:Masterworks of Japanese Cinema from the National Film Center, Tokyo
Now thru January 2006
Japan's National Film Center opens its archives and releases 53 prints of some of Japan's classic must-see films.
For the historically-minded, there's rare, early classics on hand like MR. THANK YOU, RICKSHAW MAN, WHERE CHIMNEYS ARE SEEN and INO AND MON.
If you're looking for early work by major directors, there's Mizoguchi's SISTERS OF THE GION and Kurosawa's SUGATA SANSHIRO.
And if you like your movies pulpy, don't miss MATANGO (ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE), GHOST STORY OF YOTSUYA and the first ZATOICHI movie, here called: THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF MASSEUR ICHI.
Full listings:
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_media/2005/japanese_cinema.html
Symphony Space
HERO (2002, China)
Oct 9 @ 8PM
Oct 10 @ 8PM
Oct 11 @ 4:45PM
Jet Li returns to prestige filmmaking in a film that reminds us that historical "truth" is always decided by the winners.
read some reviews:
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?^Ying+xiong+(2002)
Walter Reade
NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL (Sept. 24 - October 20)
SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE! THE PRESIDENT'S LAST BANG! WHO'S CAMUS ANYWAY? New Hou Hsiao-hsien! Plus a 35 film Shochiku retrospective. Tickets are on sale!
Go here for fun:
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
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