April 12 - 19, 2007
NOW PLAYING ALL OVER TOWN
THE HOST (Korea, 2006, 119 minutes)
Now playing at the Landmark Sunshine, BAM, Chelsea Cinemas and Clearview Cinemas on 62nd and Broadway
Bong Joon-Ho’s monster mash is one of the best additions to the “Big-scary- creature-jumping-around-trying-to-eat-you” genre since ALIEN and JAWS. And for good measure he also throws in Olympic archery, brain biopsies, schoolgirl uniforms, dragon barf, military ineptitude, Agent Orange (oops, I mean “Yellow”) and then lets the whole goulash simmer down to a lovely little spoonful of quiet, family intimacy. Needless to say, if you haven’t seen it yet you really should.
read more:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/host/
NOW PLAYING
BAM
RECENT FILMS BY HONG SANG-SOO
April 16 – 21
Not the most exciting title, but it’s the a much-needed mini-retro of one of Korea’s hottest arthouse directors. His movies regularly play the big festivals and earn almost unanimous praise from critics but they rarely come to American shores.
Not if BAM has anything to say about it.
WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN (Korea, 2004, 88 minutes)
Monday, April 16 @ 4:30pm, 6:50pm & 9:15pm
“The men’s self-immolating behavior is what’s saddest in the Hong universe, thanks largely to his duplicitous manner with narrative. You can rarely grip the shape of the entire film until past the halfway marker.”—Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice
TALE OF CINEMA (Korea, 2005, 89 minutes)
Friday, April 20 @ 2pm, 4:30pm, 6:50pm & 9:15pm
“A Tale of Cinema remains an intoxicatingly heady and emotionally rewarding delineation of the Proustian power of cinema.” – Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
WOMAN ON THE BEACH (Korea, 2006, 128 minutes)
Saturday, April 21 @ 3pm, 6pm & 9pm
“...replete with his trademark stylings: narrative diptychs (here, just as self-reflexive but more structurally lax than last year's Tale of Cinema), episodes of revelatory drunkenness, and character-exposing subtexts within run-of-the-mill dialogue.” – Aaron Hillis, Premiere Magazine
More info:
http://www.bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=125
Cinema Village
THE GLAMOROUS LIFE OF SACHIKO HANAI (Japan, 2006, 90 minutes)
Daily @ 1:00pm; 3:10pm; 5:20pm; 7:30pm; 9:40pm
Sure it’s a porn film, but it’s a POLITICAL porn film featuring the wriggling, sexy, nuke-launching finger of President George W. Bush, a hooker turned genius via a bullet in the head and lots and lots of very weird, very funny sex.
more info:
http://cinemavillage.com/chc/cv/show_movie.asp?movieid=950&displaydate=4/12/2007%201:08:51%20PM
Clearview Chelsea (23rd Street @ 8th Avenue)
THE HOST (Korea, 2006, 119 minutes)
Daily shows
Bong Joon-Ho’s monster mash is one of the best additions to the “Big-scary- creature-jumping-around-trying-to-eat-you” genre since ALIEN and JAWS. And for good measure he also throws in Olympic archery, brain biopsies, schoolgirl uniforms, dragon barf, military ineptitude, Agent Orange (oops, I mean “Yellow”) and then lets the whole goulash simmer down to a lovely little spoonful of quiet, family intimacy. Needless to say, if you haven’t seen it yet you really should.
read more:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/host/
The ImaginAsian
DREAMING LHASA (Tibet, 2007, 90 minutes)
Daily @ 1pm, 5:30pm, 7:30pm
A Tibetan feature film from documentary directors Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam about a documentary filmmaker who travels to India to interview former political prisoners who escaped from Tibet to the Dalai Lama’s new HQ. Once there she falls for a monk and agrees to help him resolve a family obligation and becomes entangled in politics, history and sticky personal baggage.
read a review:
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/films.php?id=16734
VOICE OF A MURDERER (Korea, 2007)
Daily @ 3pm & 10:15pm
Korea has been making better versions of ZODIAC ever since 2003’s MEMORIES OF MURDER and their latest entry is VOICE OF A MURDERER, a movie about a real-life crime that will hang around in your head for days afterwards like the stench of rotten souls. Based on a real-life kidnapping from the early 90’s, and directed by the man who worked on the definitive documentary about that crime, this movie isn’t about the voyeuristic riff raff who get off on playing Sherlock Holmes, instead it’s about the victim and his family and the emotional punch is like a hammer whacking your brain right on its softest spot. Harrowing, horrifying and truly great this is a movie for real people who can handle real feelings, not folks who need their every emotion validated by a layer critical reviews and auterist chill.
It’s also Korea’s most successful movie of 2007.
read more:
http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/009008.html
Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville, NY)
Park Joon-Hoon Film Retrospective
April 11 – 17
A really unusual event: a small retrospective of one of Korea’s most versatile stars, Park Joon-Hoon. Korean superstar Ahn Sung-Ki will attend, as will directors Lee Myung-Se and Jonathan Demme as well as, of course, Park Joon-Hoon. The stand-out movies are Park’s latest, RADIO STAR, about two music industry vets who stick together as one’s career hits the skids and the other becomes a megastar; and NOWHERE TO HIDE and MY LOVE, MY BRIDE, Lee Myung-Se’s two movies with Park. One a romantic comedy, the other a vigorous, experimental action flick.
see the full schedule:
http://www.burnsfilmcenter.org/films/0704series_Joong-hoonPark.html
Landmark Sunshine
THE HOST (Korea, 2006, 119 minutes)
Daily shows
Bong Joon-Ho’s monster mash is one of the best additions to the “Big-scary- creature-jumping-around-trying-to-eat-you” genre since ALIEN and JAWS. And for good measure he also throws in Olympic archery, brain biopsies, schoolgirl uniforms, dragon barf, military ineptitude, Agent Orange (oops, I mean “Yellow”) and then lets the whole goulash simmer down to a lovely little spoonful of quiet, family intimacy. Needless to say, if you haven’t seen it yet you really should.
read more:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/host/
Pioneer Two Boots
THAI TAKES 3: INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
April 21 & 22
A bunch of great Thai features (and some shorts) hit the screen at the Two Boots. Dont’ miss CITIZEN DOG, the follow-up film from the director of TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER and THE DORM one of the best horror movies of the last several years about a haunted school for boys. And INVISIBLE WAVES, the second film from Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Christopher Doyle and Tadanobu Asano.
read more:
http://www.twoboots.com/pioneer/
NOW PLAYING ALL OVER TOWN
THE HOST (Korea, 2006, 119 minutes)
Now playing at the Landmark Sunshine, BAM, Chelsea Cinemas and Clearview Cinemas on 62nd and Broadway
Bong Joon-Ho’s monster mash is one of the best additions to the “Big-scary- creature-jumping-around-trying-to-eat-you” genre since ALIEN and JAWS. And for good measure he also throws in Olympic archery, brain biopsies, schoolgirl uniforms, dragon barf, military ineptitude, Agent Orange (oops, I mean “Yellow”) and then lets the whole goulash simmer down to a lovely little spoonful of quiet, family intimacy. Needless to say, if you haven’t seen it yet you really should.
read more:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/host/
NOW PLAYING
BAM
RECENT FILMS BY HONG SANG-SOO
April 16 – 21
Not the most exciting title, but it’s the a much-needed mini-retro of one of Korea’s hottest arthouse directors. His movies regularly play the big festivals and earn almost unanimous praise from critics but they rarely come to American shores.
Not if BAM has anything to say about it.
WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN (Korea, 2004, 88 minutes)
Monday, April 16 @ 4:30pm, 6:50pm & 9:15pm
“The men’s self-immolating behavior is what’s saddest in the Hong universe, thanks largely to his duplicitous manner with narrative. You can rarely grip the shape of the entire film until past the halfway marker.”—Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice
TALE OF CINEMA (Korea, 2005, 89 minutes)
Friday, April 20 @ 2pm, 4:30pm, 6:50pm & 9:15pm
“A Tale of Cinema remains an intoxicatingly heady and emotionally rewarding delineation of the Proustian power of cinema.” – Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
WOMAN ON THE BEACH (Korea, 2006, 128 minutes)
Saturday, April 21 @ 3pm, 6pm & 9pm
“...replete with his trademark stylings: narrative diptychs (here, just as self-reflexive but more structurally lax than last year's Tale of Cinema), episodes of revelatory drunkenness, and character-exposing subtexts within run-of-the-mill dialogue.” – Aaron Hillis, Premiere Magazine
More info:
http://www.bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=125
Cinema Village
THE GLAMOROUS LIFE OF SACHIKO HANAI (Japan, 2006, 90 minutes)
Daily @ 1:00pm; 3:10pm; 5:20pm; 7:30pm; 9:40pm
Sure it’s a porn film, but it’s a POLITICAL porn film featuring the wriggling, sexy, nuke-launching finger of President George W. Bush, a hooker turned genius via a bullet in the head and lots and lots of very weird, very funny sex.
more info:
http://cinemavillage.com/chc/cv/show_movie.asp?movieid=950&displaydate=4/12/2007%201:08:51%20PM
Clearview Chelsea (23rd Street @ 8th Avenue)
THE HOST (Korea, 2006, 119 minutes)
Daily shows
Bong Joon-Ho’s monster mash is one of the best additions to the “Big-scary- creature-jumping-around-trying-to-eat-you” genre since ALIEN and JAWS. And for good measure he also throws in Olympic archery, brain biopsies, schoolgirl uniforms, dragon barf, military ineptitude, Agent Orange (oops, I mean “Yellow”) and then lets the whole goulash simmer down to a lovely little spoonful of quiet, family intimacy. Needless to say, if you haven’t seen it yet you really should.
read more:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/host/
The ImaginAsian
DREAMING LHASA (Tibet, 2007, 90 minutes)
Daily @ 1pm, 5:30pm, 7:30pm
A Tibetan feature film from documentary directors Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam about a documentary filmmaker who travels to India to interview former political prisoners who escaped from Tibet to the Dalai Lama’s new HQ. Once there she falls for a monk and agrees to help him resolve a family obligation and becomes entangled in politics, history and sticky personal baggage.
read a review:
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/films.php?id=16734
VOICE OF A MURDERER (Korea, 2007)
Daily @ 3pm & 10:15pm
Korea has been making better versions of ZODIAC ever since 2003’s MEMORIES OF MURDER and their latest entry is VOICE OF A MURDERER, a movie about a real-life crime that will hang around in your head for days afterwards like the stench of rotten souls. Based on a real-life kidnapping from the early 90’s, and directed by the man who worked on the definitive documentary about that crime, this movie isn’t about the voyeuristic riff raff who get off on playing Sherlock Holmes, instead it’s about the victim and his family and the emotional punch is like a hammer whacking your brain right on its softest spot. Harrowing, horrifying and truly great this is a movie for real people who can handle real feelings, not folks who need their every emotion validated by a layer critical reviews and auterist chill.
It’s also Korea’s most successful movie of 2007.
read more:
http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/009008.html
Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville, NY)
Park Joon-Hoon Film Retrospective
April 11 – 17
A really unusual event: a small retrospective of one of Korea’s most versatile stars, Park Joon-Hoon. Korean superstar Ahn Sung-Ki will attend, as will directors Lee Myung-Se and Jonathan Demme as well as, of course, Park Joon-Hoon. The stand-out movies are Park’s latest, RADIO STAR, about two music industry vets who stick together as one’s career hits the skids and the other becomes a megastar; and NOWHERE TO HIDE and MY LOVE, MY BRIDE, Lee Myung-Se’s two movies with Park. One a romantic comedy, the other a vigorous, experimental action flick.
see the full schedule:
http://www.burnsfilmcenter.org/films/0704series_Joong-hoonPark.html
Landmark Sunshine
THE HOST (Korea, 2006, 119 minutes)
Daily shows
Bong Joon-Ho’s monster mash is one of the best additions to the “Big-scary- creature-jumping-around-trying-to-eat-you” genre since ALIEN and JAWS. And for good measure he also throws in Olympic archery, brain biopsies, schoolgirl uniforms, dragon barf, military ineptitude, Agent Orange (oops, I mean “Yellow”) and then lets the whole goulash simmer down to a lovely little spoonful of quiet, family intimacy. Needless to say, if you haven’t seen it yet you really should.
read more:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/host/
Pioneer Two Boots
THAI TAKES 3: INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
April 21 & 22
A bunch of great Thai features (and some shorts) hit the screen at the Two Boots. Dont’ miss CITIZEN DOG, the follow-up film from the director of TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER and THE DORM one of the best horror movies of the last several years about a haunted school for boys. And INVISIBLE WAVES, the second film from Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Christopher Doyle and Tadanobu Asano.
read more:
http://www.twoboots.com/pioneer/
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