May 11 - 18, 2006
COMING SOON
NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL (June 16 - July 1)
At BOTH the Anthology Film Archives and the ImaginAsian
More funny than monkey!
More deadly than shark!
More exciting than ninja!
The New York Asian Film Festival is five years old so come celebrate by watching the latest movies from Asia that will make your head explode!
FIRST CONTACT: FUNKY FOREST where extra-dimensional high school girls hold dancing contests on giant space amoebas.
SHINOBI - a ninjapocalypse where super-powered ninjas steal faces, exhale poison, stretch their arms and eat your feet.
DUELIST - Korea's controversial action romance where no one kisses, they just kill.
Go to http://www.subwaycinema.com/ for more info
GENERAL RELEASE
THE PROMISE
Chen Kaige's gigantic, sumptuous spectacle takes the wu xia pian and transforms it into a kitschy, colorful circus where everyone flies, the costumes are enormous, and Cecelia Cheung winds up locked in a golden birdcage.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1154356-promise/
NOW PLAYING
Angelika
WATER (India, 2006, 114 minutes)
Deepa Mehta's trilogy draws to a close with this story of widows living in India. Powerful and moving, it rocked the Canadian box office and was targeted for trouble in India where the set was attacked and burned down.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10005763-water/
BAM
WATER (India, 2006, 114 minutes)
Deepa Mehta's trilogy draws to a close with this story of widows living in India. Powerful and moving, it rocked the Canadian box office and was targeted for trouble in India where the set was attacked and burned down.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10005763-water/
IFC Center
THREE TIMES (Taiwan, 2005)
Hou Hsiao-hsien's latest slow-moving art film stars the luminous Shu Qi, she of the planetary lips, in three roles set in three decades.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/three_times/
ImaginAsian Theater
(239 East 59th Street, btwn 2nd and 3rd Ave)
NEGADON ATTACKS: THREE ANIMATED SHORTS FROM JAPAN
Daily at 12:00 pm, 9:40 pm, 11:30 pm
Three shorts centering on NEGADON, the all-CGI, homemade giant monster movie from Japan that's astonished virtually everyone who's seen it. It's a tribute to the kaiju massive attack movies of the 1960's and looks dead-on. Also playing: the trippy CAT SOUP and KAKUREMBO - HIDE AND SEEK.
read a review of NEGADON: http://www.monsterzero.us/editorials/editorials.php?catID=Art&subCatID=1&contentID=731
THREE TIMES (Taiwan, 2005)
Hou Hsiao-hsien's latest slow-moving art film stars the luminous Shu Qi, she of the planetary lips, in three roles set in three decades.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/three_times/
Landmark Sunshine
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
CLEAN
The Maggie Cheung-starring French film where everyone's fave Hong Kong icon plays a skanky, junkie mommy.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1156587-clean/
Museum of the Moving Image
TIME AND TIDE
Sunday, May 21 @ 1:30pm
Tsui Hark's last good movie is a trippy mutation of an action film. Like something made for cable by someone with a very, very, very twisted sensibility it's two parts genius and one part junk. But those action scenes are light years ahead of anything anyone's doing these days.
Paris Theater (58th Street and 5th Avenue)
WATER (India, 2006, 114 minutes)
Deepa Mehta's trilogy draws to a close with this story of widows living in India. Powerful and moving, it rocked the Canadian box office and was targeted for trouble in India where the set was attacked and burned down.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10005763-water/
Village East
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) hits New York in all its impeccably styled, somewhat confusing glory.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10005750-sympathy_for_lady_vengeance/
COMING SOON
NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL (June 16 - July 1)
At BOTH the Anthology Film Archives and the ImaginAsian
More funny than monkey!
More deadly than shark!
More exciting than ninja!
The New York Asian Film Festival is five years old so come celebrate by watching the latest movies from Asia that will make your head explode!
FIRST CONTACT: FUNKY FOREST where extra-dimensional high school girls hold dancing contests on giant space amoebas.
SHINOBI - a ninjapocalypse where super-powered ninjas steal faces, exhale poison, stretch their arms and eat your feet.
DUELIST - Korea's controversial action romance where no one kisses, they just kill.
Go to http://www.subwaycinema.com/ for more info
GENERAL RELEASE
THE PROMISE
Chen Kaige's gigantic, sumptuous spectacle takes the wu xia pian and transforms it into a kitschy, colorful circus where everyone flies, the costumes are enormous, and Cecelia Cheung winds up locked in a golden birdcage.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1154356-promise/
NOW PLAYING
Angelika
WATER (India, 2006, 114 minutes)
Deepa Mehta's trilogy draws to a close with this story of widows living in India. Powerful and moving, it rocked the Canadian box office and was targeted for trouble in India where the set was attacked and burned down.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10005763-water/
BAM
WATER (India, 2006, 114 minutes)
Deepa Mehta's trilogy draws to a close with this story of widows living in India. Powerful and moving, it rocked the Canadian box office and was targeted for trouble in India where the set was attacked and burned down.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10005763-water/
IFC Center
THREE TIMES (Taiwan, 2005)
Hou Hsiao-hsien's latest slow-moving art film stars the luminous Shu Qi, she of the planetary lips, in three roles set in three decades.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/three_times/
ImaginAsian Theater
(239 East 59th Street, btwn 2nd and 3rd Ave)
NEGADON ATTACKS: THREE ANIMATED SHORTS FROM JAPAN
Daily at 12:00 pm, 9:40 pm, 11:30 pm
Three shorts centering on NEGADON, the all-CGI, homemade giant monster movie from Japan that's astonished virtually everyone who's seen it. It's a tribute to the kaiju massive attack movies of the 1960's and looks dead-on. Also playing: the trippy CAT SOUP and KAKUREMBO - HIDE AND SEEK.
read a review of NEGADON: http://www.monsterzero.us/editorials/editorials.php?catID=Art&subCatID=1&contentID=731
THREE TIMES (Taiwan, 2005)
Hou Hsiao-hsien's latest slow-moving art film stars the luminous Shu Qi, she of the planetary lips, in three roles set in three decades.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/three_times/
Landmark Sunshine
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
CLEAN
The Maggie Cheung-starring French film where everyone's fave Hong Kong icon plays a skanky, junkie mommy.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1156587-clean/
Museum of the Moving Image
TIME AND TIDE
Sunday, May 21 @ 1:30pm
Tsui Hark's last good movie is a trippy mutation of an action film. Like something made for cable by someone with a very, very, very twisted sensibility it's two parts genius and one part junk. But those action scenes are light years ahead of anything anyone's doing these days.
Paris Theater (58th Street and 5th Avenue)
WATER (India, 2006, 114 minutes)
Deepa Mehta's trilogy draws to a close with this story of widows living in India. Powerful and moving, it rocked the Canadian box office and was targeted for trouble in India where the set was attacked and burned down.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10005763-water/
Village East
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) hits New York in all its impeccably styled, somewhat confusing glory.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10005750-sympathy_for_lady_vengeance/