December 7 - December 14, 2006
COMING SOON
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER (December 25)
Zhang Yimou's epic wraps Chow Yun-fat and Gong Li in miles of crackling gold decor and sets them at each others' throat as the world's most dysfunctional Imperial family.
TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER (January 12)
Film Forum hosts the victory lap of Thai auteur, Wisit Sasantieng's, first movie, the eye-popping TEARS, bought by Miramax in 2001 and locked away ever since. Kudos to Magnolia for setting it free.
A TASTE OF TEA (February 9)
2005's landslide winner of the New York Asian Film Festival's Audience Award hits the ImaginAsian and it's about time. This amazing movie will blow your mind and electrify your heart with its tale of a family in rural Japan. Trains emerge from heads, a poo ghost appears, 50ft doppelgangers skulk and stare and a sunflower eats the world in a movie Time Out New York calls "a masterpiece"
read a review:
http://www.subwaycinema.com/frames/nyaff05-tasteoftea.htm
NOW PLAYING
BAM
Cinema Village
YAJI AND KITA: THE MIDNIGHT PILGRIMS (Japan, 2005)
Starts Friday Dec. 8 and plays daily at 1:05pm, 5:15pm and 9:35pm
The best gay, samurai, motorcycle road movie musical from Japan that you've never seen. If you want your mind blown, this remake of a 1958 Japanese classic is the film for you. Featuring songs like "Born to be Gay!", massive drug use, hallucinations, and more!
read a review:
http://www.kaijushakedown.com/2005/10/yaji_and_kita_t.html
Huntington Art Center (423 Park Avenue, Huntington, NY)
A GOOD LAWYER'S WIFE (2003, Korea, 103 minutes)
Wednesday, December 13 @ 7:30pm
Introduced by Im Hyun-Ock, this Korean picture was a scandalous success about infidelity. A lawyer and his wife have put their relationship out to pasture and are both cheating on each other, but when a tragedy arises they have to make a decision: married or not. Good looking, well acted and pretty darn sexy.
read a review:
http://koreanfilm.org/kfilm03.html#baramnan
how to get there:
http://www.cinemaartscentre.org/
IFC Center
KWAIDAN (Japan, 1964, 125 minutes)
Friday, Saturday and Sunday @ Noon
The great granddaddy of Japanese horror movies is Masaki Kobayashi's KWAIDAN, a collection of ghost stories shot in a stylized visual scheme that makes them feel like paintings come to life. If you like any kind of movie you should check this film out. Essential.
read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwaidan_(film)
The ImaginAsian
DHOOM 2 (India, 2006, 160 minutes)
Last Shows Thursday, December 8 at 3pm and 10pm
This ultra-slick Bollywood hit made a zillion dollars on its opening weekend and even the New York Times sang its praises. A cartoony tale of police and thieves and impossible heists it stars the three biggest young stars in the Bollywood firmament: super-dancer hunk, Hrithik Roshan (he of the three thumbs), the "Most Beautiful Woman in the World" Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan son of the World's Best Loved Filmi Star, Amitabh Bachchan.
read a review:
http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/11/27/movies/27dhoo.html?ref=movies
BAABUL (2006, India, 170 minutes)
Daily at 3:30pm, 7:30pm, 10:30pm
Bollywood's biggest star, Amitabh Bachchan, in this love story with Rani Mukherjee, Salman Khan and Hema Malini.
Read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baabul
MOMA
THE LAST COMMUNIST (2005, Malaysia, 90 minutes)
Friday, December 8 @ 8:30pm + Saturday, December 9 @ 4pm
Amir Muhammad's controversial documentary about the Malaysian Communist who resisted the Japanese and British in Malaysia. The documentary is an avante-pop, remixed flick that incorporates a million different mediums to tell the story and it wound up being banned in Malaysia.
read more:
http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/006310.html
COMING SOON
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER (December 25)
Zhang Yimou's epic wraps Chow Yun-fat and Gong Li in miles of crackling gold decor and sets them at each others' throat as the world's most dysfunctional Imperial family.
TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER (January 12)
Film Forum hosts the victory lap of Thai auteur, Wisit Sasantieng's, first movie, the eye-popping TEARS, bought by Miramax in 2001 and locked away ever since. Kudos to Magnolia for setting it free.
A TASTE OF TEA (February 9)
2005's landslide winner of the New York Asian Film Festival's Audience Award hits the ImaginAsian and it's about time. This amazing movie will blow your mind and electrify your heart with its tale of a family in rural Japan. Trains emerge from heads, a poo ghost appears, 50ft doppelgangers skulk and stare and a sunflower eats the world in a movie Time Out New York calls "a masterpiece"
read a review:
http://www.subwaycinema.com/frames/nyaff05-tasteoftea.htm
NOW PLAYING
BAM
Cinema Village
YAJI AND KITA: THE MIDNIGHT PILGRIMS (Japan, 2005)
Starts Friday Dec. 8 and plays daily at 1:05pm, 5:15pm and 9:35pm
The best gay, samurai, motorcycle road movie musical from Japan that you've never seen. If you want your mind blown, this remake of a 1958 Japanese classic is the film for you. Featuring songs like "Born to be Gay!", massive drug use, hallucinations, and more!
read a review:
http://www.kaijushakedown.com/2005/10/yaji_and_kita_t.html
Huntington Art Center (423 Park Avenue, Huntington, NY)
A GOOD LAWYER'S WIFE (2003, Korea, 103 minutes)
Wednesday, December 13 @ 7:30pm
Introduced by Im Hyun-Ock, this Korean picture was a scandalous success about infidelity. A lawyer and his wife have put their relationship out to pasture and are both cheating on each other, but when a tragedy arises they have to make a decision: married or not. Good looking, well acted and pretty darn sexy.
read a review:
http://koreanfilm.org/kfilm03.html#baramnan
how to get there:
http://www.cinemaartscentre.org/
IFC Center
KWAIDAN (Japan, 1964, 125 minutes)
Friday, Saturday and Sunday @ Noon
The great granddaddy of Japanese horror movies is Masaki Kobayashi's KWAIDAN, a collection of ghost stories shot in a stylized visual scheme that makes them feel like paintings come to life. If you like any kind of movie you should check this film out. Essential.
read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwaidan_(film)
The ImaginAsian
DHOOM 2 (India, 2006, 160 minutes)
Last Shows Thursday, December 8 at 3pm and 10pm
This ultra-slick Bollywood hit made a zillion dollars on its opening weekend and even the New York Times sang its praises. A cartoony tale of police and thieves and impossible heists it stars the three biggest young stars in the Bollywood firmament: super-dancer hunk, Hrithik Roshan (he of the three thumbs), the "Most Beautiful Woman in the World" Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan son of the World's Best Loved Filmi Star, Amitabh Bachchan.
read a review:
http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/11/27/movies/27dhoo.html?ref=movies
BAABUL (2006, India, 170 minutes)
Daily at 3:30pm, 7:30pm, 10:30pm
Bollywood's biggest star, Amitabh Bachchan, in this love story with Rani Mukherjee, Salman Khan and Hema Malini.
Read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baabul
MOMA
THE LAST COMMUNIST (2005, Malaysia, 90 minutes)
Friday, December 8 @ 8:30pm + Saturday, December 9 @ 4pm
Amir Muhammad's controversial documentary about the Malaysian Communist who resisted the Japanese and British in Malaysia. The documentary is an avante-pop, remixed flick that incorporates a million different mediums to tell the story and it wound up being banned in Malaysia.
read more:
http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/006310.html
