March 16 - March 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

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

LADY VENGEANCE
(May 5)
SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE, the third and final installment in Park Chan-Wook's vengeance trilogy (including SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE and OLDBOY) opens at the Angelica in all its impeccably styled, somewhat confusing glory.
read a review:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10005750-sympathy_for_lady_vengeance/

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

Anthology Film Archives
THE WORLD OF JIA ZHANGKE
Daily from 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.
more info:
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/

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

IFC Center
THRONE OF BLOOD (1957, Japan)
Friday, Saturday, Sunday @ noon
Akira Kurosawa's ravishing adaptation of Macbeth is one of the movies where his stylized abstractions and red-blooded emotions meet and mesh perfectly.
read a review:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/throne_of_blood/

ImaginAsian Theater
(239 East 59th Street, btwn 2nd and 3rd Ave)
TAXI NUMBER 9211
Daily at 1:30pm
A Bollywood spin on CHANGING LANES, this flick has been getting great reviews and stars Nana Patekar who is one of Bollywood's great actors who works rarely but sets the screen on fire whenever he appears.
read a review:
http://www.indiafm.com/movies/review/12455/index.html

RANG DE BASANTI (India, 2006)
Daily at 3:45pm, 7pm
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/

Loew's on 34th Street (corner of 34th and 8th Avenue)
RANG DE BASANTI (India, 2006)
Daily at 1:30pm, 5:25pm, 9:05pm
read a review:
http://planetbollywood.com/Film/RangDeBasanti/

Museum of Modern Art
BEYOND OUR KEN (2004, Hong Kong, 98 minutes)
MISSING (2004, USA, 14 minutes)
Friday March 17 @ 8pm
Saturday March 18 @ 4pm
A short artsy film about relationships is paired with one of Hong Kong's best movies from 2004, larded with celebs and slickly made. A young woman is contacted by her boyfriend's ex who wants help in stealing back nude pictures of herself that the boyfriend, named Ken, is passing around to his friends. A low key romantic comedy in the vein of IN HER SHOES only less saccharine and starring one of the The Twin's.
read a review:
http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews_2/beyond_our_ken.htm

Museum of the Moving Image
YOJIMBO (1961, Japan)
Friday March 17 @ 7:30pm
Saturday March 18 @ 6:30pm
Sunday March 19 @ 6:30pm
Akira Kurosawa's movies have been remade as THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, STAR WARS and YOJIMBO wound up becoming A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS. Toshiro Mifune is a tower of power as a wandering, unscrupulous ronin who pits two warring gangs against one another for his own amusement. Definitely deserving of big screen treatment.
read a review:
http://www.kfccinema.com/reviews/swordplay/yojimbo/yojimbo.html