February 16 - 23, 2006
COMING SOON
THE FILMS OF ANNA MAY WONG
(March 4 - April 16)
A retrospective of Hollywood's first Asian star out at the Museum of the Moving Image.
more info:
http://www.movingimage.us/site/screenings/index.html
THE WORLD OF JIA ZHANGKE
(March 16 - 19)
The Anthology Film Archives presents a retrospective of the Chinese director Jia Zhangke who has inspired more critical drooling than any other Chinese director in recent history. From his first film, THE PICKPOCKET, to his most recent, THE WORLD, all four of his movies are here.
KEKEXILI: THE MOUNTAIN PATROL
(April 21)
A wide release for the Chinese film about where your pashmina comes from - with AK-47's! KEKEXILI is beautiful, raw and depressing: everything you've ever wanted in a Spring movie.
read more:
http://www.subwaycinema.com/frames/nyaff05-kekexili.htm
AGAINST THE TIDE: REBELS AND MAVERICKS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE FILM
(April 6 - 16 2006)
Movies about characters who rebel against society (not the Japan Society, just society in general). Featuring Kinji Fukasaku, Tadanobu Asano and the debut of RIKIDOZAN, the Korean film about the Korean wrestler who hid his origins and became a star in Japan.
More details:
http://www.japansociety.org/events/series.cfm?id_series=1694866756
AZUMI
(Sometime in Spring, 2006)
Everyone's favorite female samurai in a micro-mini and cape hacks n'slashes her way onto US screens this Spring.
read more:
http://www.subwaycinema.com/frames/nyaff04-azumi.htm
NOW PLAYING
BAM
WITHOUT MAPS: DISCOVERING HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA
(Feb 24 - March 19)
One of Japan's leading avante garde filmmakers, and the son of Japan's no. 1 Ikebana (flower-arranging) expert, Hiroshi is getting a big BAM retro with all his major films; THE FACE OF ANOTHER, WOMAN IN THE DUNES, SUMMER SOLDIERS and PITFALL.
more info:
http://www.bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=62
Eagle Theatre (73-07 37th Rd, Jackson Heights)
RANG DE BASANTI (India, 2006)
Daily at 6pm
Aamir Khan won hearts and minds with his cricket-epic, LAGAAN, but in 2005 he alienated pretty much everyone with his crass, cardboard epic THE RISING. Now he returns in what must be the most-talked-about Bollywood movie to come along in a long, long time. RDB looked like a "generation comes of age" movie but when it was released it suddenly revealed that it's also a "generation kicks some ass" and "generation shoots some politicians" movie that sounds like it's two parts THE BIG CHILL to one part TAXI DRIVER.
read a review:
http://planetbollywood.com/Film/RangDeBasanti/
MERE JEEVAN SAATHI (India, 2006)
Daily at 9:30pm, Sat and Sun also has shows at 2:30pm
Akshay Kumar and Karisma Kapoor in a movie about a musician that took a very long time to be released for some reason. No one seems to like it very much.
read a review:
http://www.santabanta.com/cinema.asp?pid=9548
ImaginAsian Theater
(239 East 59th Street, btwn 2nd and 3rd Ave)
FIGHT CLUB (India, 2006)
Daily @ 12pm, 3:30pm, 7pm, 10:30pm
Bollywood's remake of FIGHT CLUB is here and, well, let the online description speak for itself:
"Fight Club, is an exhilarating journey of four friends Vicky (Zayed Khan), Karan (Dino Morea), Somil (Ritiesh Deshmukh) and Diku (Aashish Choudhary), who in a constant endeavor to help each other, get entangled in a web of incidents; some are romantic, some are funny but all test the extremes of their friendship... the excitement takes off when Vicky stumbles upon the design of a Fight Club, a club that gives people a platform to score with their enemies in an atmosphere of fun, action and excitement."
Fun, action, excitement!
Loew's on 34th Street (corner of 34th and 8th Avenue)
RANG DE BASANTI (India, 2006)
Daily at 1:30pm, 5:25pm, 9:20pm
read a review:
http://planetbollywood.com/Film/RangDeBasanti/
Museum of the Moving Image
MARTIAL ARTS MOVIES BY INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS
Sunday, February 19 @ 2pm
A screening and discussion with moviemakers who are bringing their martial fury to the big screen on a small budget. Attendees include: Joshua Bee Alafia (The Anti-Vigilante), Conrad Oakley (Fists of Water). Kim Wang (The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful), Matt Bennet (El Guerrero), Lyndon Brown (Guild of Assassins), José Figueroa (Shadow Lords), Kamau Hunter (Unsung Heros), Ray Muhammad and Khalil Nichols (The Way), and Christopher Rogers and Taimak Guarriello (Nobody Hurts).
more info:
http://www.movingimage.us/site/screenings/index.html
Walter Reade Theater
FILM COMMENT SELECTS
(February 15 - 28)
Film Comment brings a fistful of movies to Lincoln Center every year and they're going heavy on the Asian flicks this time out. Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest, LOFT, the new noise rock apocalypse film from Shinji Aoyama starring Tadanobu Asano, ELI ELI LEMA SABACHTANI, all the big Asian films from the fests (BASHING, SHANGHAI DREAMS, EVERLASTING REGRET, FORSAKEN LAND) and three shorts by Shinya Tsukamoto (HAZE), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (WORLDLY DESIRES) and Song Il-Gon (Magicians).
More info here:
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/showing/fcselects06.htm
COMING SOON
THE FILMS OF ANNA MAY WONG
(March 4 - April 16)
A retrospective of Hollywood's first Asian star out at the Museum of the Moving Image.
more info:
http://www.movingimage.us/site/screenings/index.html
THE WORLD OF JIA ZHANGKE
(March 16 - 19)
The Anthology Film Archives presents a retrospective of the Chinese director Jia Zhangke who has inspired more critical drooling than any other Chinese director in recent history. From his first film, THE PICKPOCKET, to his most recent, THE WORLD, all four of his movies are here.
KEKEXILI: THE MOUNTAIN PATROL
(April 21)
A wide release for the Chinese film about where your pashmina comes from - with AK-47's! KEKEXILI is beautiful, raw and depressing: everything you've ever wanted in a Spring movie.
read more:
http://www.subwaycinema.com/frames/nyaff05-kekexili.htm
AGAINST THE TIDE: REBELS AND MAVERICKS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE FILM
(April 6 - 16 2006)
Movies about characters who rebel against society (not the Japan Society, just society in general). Featuring Kinji Fukasaku, Tadanobu Asano and the debut of RIKIDOZAN, the Korean film about the Korean wrestler who hid his origins and became a star in Japan.
More details:
http://www.japansociety.org/events/series.cfm?id_series=1694866756
AZUMI
(Sometime in Spring, 2006)
Everyone's favorite female samurai in a micro-mini and cape hacks n'slashes her way onto US screens this Spring.
read more:
http://www.subwaycinema.com/frames/nyaff04-azumi.htm
NOW PLAYING
BAM
WITHOUT MAPS: DISCOVERING HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA
(Feb 24 - March 19)
One of Japan's leading avante garde filmmakers, and the son of Japan's no. 1 Ikebana (flower-arranging) expert, Hiroshi is getting a big BAM retro with all his major films; THE FACE OF ANOTHER, WOMAN IN THE DUNES, SUMMER SOLDIERS and PITFALL.
more info:
http://www.bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=62
Eagle Theatre (73-07 37th Rd, Jackson Heights)
RANG DE BASANTI (India, 2006)
Daily at 6pm
Aamir Khan won hearts and minds with his cricket-epic, LAGAAN, but in 2005 he alienated pretty much everyone with his crass, cardboard epic THE RISING. Now he returns in what must be the most-talked-about Bollywood movie to come along in a long, long time. RDB looked like a "generation comes of age" movie but when it was released it suddenly revealed that it's also a "generation kicks some ass" and "generation shoots some politicians" movie that sounds like it's two parts THE BIG CHILL to one part TAXI DRIVER.
read a review:
http://planetbollywood.com/Film/RangDeBasanti/
MERE JEEVAN SAATHI (India, 2006)
Daily at 9:30pm, Sat and Sun also has shows at 2:30pm
Akshay Kumar and Karisma Kapoor in a movie about a musician that took a very long time to be released for some reason. No one seems to like it very much.
read a review:
http://www.santabanta.com/cinema.asp?pid=9548
ImaginAsian Theater
(239 East 59th Street, btwn 2nd and 3rd Ave)
FIGHT CLUB (India, 2006)
Daily @ 12pm, 3:30pm, 7pm, 10:30pm
Bollywood's remake of FIGHT CLUB is here and, well, let the online description speak for itself:
"Fight Club, is an exhilarating journey of four friends Vicky (Zayed Khan), Karan (Dino Morea), Somil (Ritiesh Deshmukh) and Diku (Aashish Choudhary), who in a constant endeavor to help each other, get entangled in a web of incidents; some are romantic, some are funny but all test the extremes of their friendship... the excitement takes off when Vicky stumbles upon the design of a Fight Club, a club that gives people a platform to score with their enemies in an atmosphere of fun, action and excitement."
Fun, action, excitement!
Loew's on 34th Street (corner of 34th and 8th Avenue)
RANG DE BASANTI (India, 2006)
Daily at 1:30pm, 5:25pm, 9:20pm
read a review:
http://planetbollywood.com/Film/RangDeBasanti/
Museum of the Moving Image
MARTIAL ARTS MOVIES BY INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS
Sunday, February 19 @ 2pm
A screening and discussion with moviemakers who are bringing their martial fury to the big screen on a small budget. Attendees include: Joshua Bee Alafia (The Anti-Vigilante), Conrad Oakley (Fists of Water). Kim Wang (The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful), Matt Bennet (El Guerrero), Lyndon Brown (Guild of Assassins), José Figueroa (Shadow Lords), Kamau Hunter (Unsung Heros), Ray Muhammad and Khalil Nichols (The Way), and Christopher Rogers and Taimak Guarriello (Nobody Hurts).
more info:
http://www.movingimage.us/site/screenings/index.html
Walter Reade Theater
FILM COMMENT SELECTS
(February 15 - 28)
Film Comment brings a fistful of movies to Lincoln Center every year and they're going heavy on the Asian flicks this time out. Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest, LOFT, the new noise rock apocalypse film from Shinji Aoyama starring Tadanobu Asano, ELI ELI LEMA SABACHTANI, all the big Asian films from the fests (BASHING, SHANGHAI DREAMS, EVERLASTING REGRET, FORSAKEN LAND) and three shorts by Shinya Tsukamoto (HAZE), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (WORLDLY DESIRES) and Song Il-Gon (Magicians).
More info here:
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/showing/fcselects06.htm
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