August 24 - 31, 2006
NOW PLAYING
Anthology Film Archives, BAM and ImaginAsian
NEW YORK KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL (August 25 - September 3)
Every year, this festival takes a core sample of what's playing in Korean cinemas and carefully brings it over to New York for your viewing pleasure. Ignoring the major films in order to give an idea of what fills the majority of Korean multiplexes, the Korean Film Festival is an eye-opening look at the current Korean cinema scene. Recommended in this year's line-up: the savage, HOLIDAY; the wildly
Read more:
http://www.koreanfilmfestival.org/
IFC Center
THRONE OF BLOOD (1957, Japan, 105 minutes)
Friday - Sunday at Noon
Forget RAN. Forget DREAMS. THRONE OF BLOOD is Akira Kurosawa's best-looking movie. A savage take on MACBETH with Toshiro Mifune chewing his own lips till blood spills out in the lead role, this shimmering black and white epic is one part kabuki, one part SEVEN SAMURAI, one part Roman Polanski, and it all adds up to one of Kurosawa's least-seen movies in the West, but one of his best.
More info:
http://www.ifccenter.com/film?filmid=30417
The ImaginAsian
KANK (2006, India, 210 minutes)
Daily at 2:30pm and 9:30pm
Also known as KABHI ALVIDA NAA KEHNA, this is the monster hit that's breaking box office records all over the world. It's from India's maker of melodramas, Karan Johar, whose KABHI KUSHIE, KABHIE GHAM turned the family drama up to eleven and it's the first Bollywood movie invited to the Toronto Film Festival in 31 years. Starring all of India's major stars it's a song and dance version of CLOSER shot mostly in New York.
Read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kabhi_alvida_naa_kehna/
FULL METAL ALCHEMIST (2005, Japan)
Daily at 7pm
The anime feature film of the super-popular manga and anime television series is now playing. You're either seeing this one or you're not and there's nothing I can say about it that will change your mind.
Also see listing at top of page for NY KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL.
Village East
WATER (India, 2006, 114 minutes)
Daily at 3:10pm and 5:40pm
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. It's been running forever so it must be good.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10005763-water/
Walter Reade
THE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL (September 29 - October 15)
The New York Film Festival is stuffed full of chewy goodness this year with a fistful of high-profile Asian movies. THE HOST, Korea's monster hit monster movie! TRIAD ELECTION, which is really Johnnie To's inimitable ELECTION 2! PAPRIKA, a new flick from Satoishi Kon! You can't beat these movies with a stick. And you can't get tickets till September 10, but you should be ready to hit the ground running when they go on sale.
More info:
http://filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
NOW PLAYING
Anthology Film Archives, BAM and ImaginAsian
NEW YORK KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL (August 25 - September 3)
Every year, this festival takes a core sample of what's playing in Korean cinemas and carefully brings it over to New York for your viewing pleasure. Ignoring the major films in order to give an idea of what fills the majority of Korean multiplexes, the Korean Film Festival is an eye-opening look at the current Korean cinema scene. Recommended in this year's line-up: the savage, HOLIDAY; the wildly
Read more:
http://www.koreanfilmfestival.org/
IFC Center
THRONE OF BLOOD (1957, Japan, 105 minutes)
Friday - Sunday at Noon
Forget RAN. Forget DREAMS. THRONE OF BLOOD is Akira Kurosawa's best-looking movie. A savage take on MACBETH with Toshiro Mifune chewing his own lips till blood spills out in the lead role, this shimmering black and white epic is one part kabuki, one part SEVEN SAMURAI, one part Roman Polanski, and it all adds up to one of Kurosawa's least-seen movies in the West, but one of his best.
More info:
http://www.ifccenter.com/film?filmid=30417
The ImaginAsian
KANK (2006, India, 210 minutes)
Daily at 2:30pm and 9:30pm
Also known as KABHI ALVIDA NAA KEHNA, this is the monster hit that's breaking box office records all over the world. It's from India's maker of melodramas, Karan Johar, whose KABHI KUSHIE, KABHIE GHAM turned the family drama up to eleven and it's the first Bollywood movie invited to the Toronto Film Festival in 31 years. Starring all of India's major stars it's a song and dance version of CLOSER shot mostly in New York.
Read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kabhi_alvida_naa_kehna/
FULL METAL ALCHEMIST (2005, Japan)
Daily at 7pm
The anime feature film of the super-popular manga and anime television series is now playing. You're either seeing this one or you're not and there's nothing I can say about it that will change your mind.
Also see listing at top of page for NY KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL.
Village East
WATER (India, 2006, 114 minutes)
Daily at 3:10pm and 5:40pm
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. It's been running forever so it must be good.
read reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10005763-water/
Walter Reade
THE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL (September 29 - October 15)
The New York Film Festival is stuffed full of chewy goodness this year with a fistful of high-profile Asian movies. THE HOST, Korea's monster hit monster movie! TRIAD ELECTION, which is really Johnnie To's inimitable ELECTION 2! PAPRIKA, a new flick from Satoishi Kon! You can't beat these movies with a stick. And you can't get tickets till September 10, but you should be ready to hit the ground running when they go on sale.
More info:
http://filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
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