April 13 - April 20, 2006

COMING SOON

MONGOLIAN PING PONG
(4/21)
A new Chinese film about two Mongolian kids who find a ping pong ball and decide it's a heavenly pearl. Hilarity ensues.
read more: http://www.firstrunfeatures.com/mongolian_synopsis.html

The magic week of 4/28 which sees the release of:
LADY VENGEANCE
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/

CLEAN
The Maggie Cheung-starring French film where everyone's fave Hong Kong icon plays a skanky, junkie mommy.

THREE TIMES
Hou Hsiao-hsien's latest slow-moving art film stars the luminous Shu Qi, she of the planetary lips.

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
THE WAYWARD CLOUD (2005, Taiwan)
Saturday April 15 @ 2pm, 4:30pm, 6:50pm, 9:15pm
Taiwan's Tsai Ming-liang returns with his most provocative and possibly best movie yet. A deadpan romantic comedy shot through with musical numbers it's also an anti-pornography torpedo complete with dancing penises and a dildo kick line.
read a review:
http://www.kaijushakedown.com/2005/09/the_wayward_clo.html

MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003, Korea)
Sunday April 16 @ 3pm, 6pm, 9pm
Bong Joon-Ho's masterfully entertaining flick about the first serial killer in Korea. Two cops (including JSA's Song Kang-Ho) track a malicious killer who strikes when it rains in a small town in Korea. More than just a thriller, this is a movie as exciting, human, and philosophical as anything made by Akira Kurosawa.
read more:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10003273-memories_of_murder/

IFC Center
STRAY DOG (1949, Japan)
Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Noon
Akira Kurosawa's early crime thriller in all its crisp black and white glory. A cop has his gun stolen and has to venture into a hellish criminal underworld to get it back.
read a review:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1020312-stray_dog/

ImaginAsian Theater
(239 East 59th Street, btwn 2nd and 3rd Ave)
SAAWAN (2006, India)
Daily at 1pm and 3:30pm
A romantic melodrama from Bollywood that has exactly one interesting thing going for it: star, Salman Khan, was just sentenced to 5 years of hard time for poaching and this is his last movie to be released since he's now in the slammer for the next 5 years.

THE BEACHHEAD: APA SHORTS MAKE THEIR LANDING
Daily at 7:30pm
The Asian-American film lab presents shorts by Asian-American filmmakers.

KEKEXILI: THE MOUNTAIN PATROL
Daily starting Friday
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. Absolutely recommended, and please be aware that the American distributor, National Geographic, has absolutely no idea what they're doing and have renamed it MOUNTAIN PATROL.
read more:
http://www.subwaycinema.com/frames/nyaff05-kekexili.htm

Japan Society
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

Landmark Sunshine
KEKEXILI: THE MOUNTAIN PATROL
Daily starting Friday
read more:
http://www.subwaycinema.com/frames/nyaff05-kekexili.htm

Museum of the Moving Image
THE FILMS OF ANNA MAY WONG
(March 4 - April 16)
A retrospective of Hollywood's first Asian star.
more info:
http://www.movingimage.us/site/screenings/index.html