August 14 - 21, 2007
Coming Soon
EXILED, the latest movie from Hong Kong’s King of Superbad is hitting US screens on August 31. It came in third place in the Audience Awards for the New York Asian Film Festival after only one screening, and it’s the hardest movie about hard men making hard choices you’ll ever see. Like THE WILD BUNCH only punchier. And in Macau. And with Asian people.
WOOL 100% is one of the strangest Japanese movies of the year, about two elderly, reclusive sisters, the silent young girl who invades their home, and knitting. A tour de force of animation and camera stylistics that’s frustrating, inscrutable and like nothing else you’ll see onscreen all year long. Opening September 12 at the Pioneer Two Boots.
It’s tearing up the Korean box office, it’s been in the works for three years and it’s all about giant Korean snakes destroying Los Angeles. Yes, it’s D-WAR (known in America as DRAGON WARS) opening across the country on September 14.
If you missed the bonkers, off-the-wall, over-the-top Thai action flick DYNAMITE WARRIOR this summer then you should feel sad. But it’s not too late: there’s a one-time-only showing at the Museum of the Moving Image on September 16 @ 2pm.
Now Playing
Anthology Film Archives
KOREAN CINEMA: INDEPENDENT VISIONS OF THE SHORT FILM
Saturday, August 18 @ 6:30pm & Sunday, August 19 @ 6:30pm
Everyone knows that Korea has produced some of the slickest, most crowd-pleasing blockbusters of the last 8 years, but in the shadow of this massive film industry there are still independent artists pursuing their unique visions. The Korean Cultural Service presents two programs of 7 short films that give you an idea of the other side of Korean filmmaking. Relentlessly political, fighting for social justice and change, up to their elbows in gritty realism, these fictional movies run the gamut from battles between corrupt labor unions and the widows of their workers, aging prostitutes who service American soldiers, and two female office workers who are given an extra nighttime assignment: to cook the books at their company so it will avoid taxes.
BAM
NEW YORK KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL
Tuesday, August 21 – Sunday, September 2
Fifteen movies from Korea, including selections of shorts, an 8-film block of Korean horror flicks from Tartan, and a mini-retrospective (5 movies) of Korea’s master director, Im Kwon-Taek. Highlights include KING AND CLOWN, the majorly huge blockbuster from 2006 and 200 POUND BEAUTY, the new Korean romantic comedy about weight loss with the director present.
more info:
http://www.koreanfilmfestival.org/
THE NEW DECADE: HONG KONG FILM
August 16 – 26
An overview of post-97 Hong Kong cinema. There’s some stuff here you’ve seen before and some stuff that’s brand new to New Yorkers. Highlights include: HOUSE OF FURY, a nutty, no-holds-barred, sugary action flick that’s a hell of a lot of fun with a six pack, and a double bill of both of Johnnie To’s ELECTION films on Sunday, August 26. Also, 2 BECOME 1, the Miriam Yeung breast cancer comedy is the kind of thing you’d never see from Hollywood.
read more:
http://www.bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=148
Cinema Village
NEW YORK KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL
Thursday, August 23 – Thursday, August 30
Fifteen movies from Korea, including selections of shorts, an 8-film block of Korean horror flicks from Tartan, and a mini-retrospective (5 movies) of Korea’s master director, Im Kwon-Taek. Highlights include KING AND CLOWN, the majorly huge blockbuster from 2006 and 200 POUND BEAUTY, the new Korean romantic comedy about weight loss with the director present.
more info:
http://www.koreanfilmfestival.org/
THE LAST COMMUNIST (Malaysia, 2006, 90 minutes)
Starts August 29
Amir Muhammed’s avante-documentary musical about the exiled leader of the Communist party in Malaysia has been totally and completely banned in its home country. Which is too bad because this is an incredibly dry, ironic and experimental work that deserves and audience. Muhammed has been called one of the best living cinema essayists and this documentary is proof.
read more:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Malaysia_bans_film_%22The_Last_Communist%22
IFC Center
NEW YORK KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL
Monday, August 27 & Tuesday, August 28
Fifteen movies from Korea, including selections of shorts, an 8-film block of Korean horror flicks from Tartan, and a mini-retrospective (5 movies) of Korea’s master director, Im Kwon-Taek. Highlights include KING AND CLOWN, the majorly huge blockbuster from 2006 and 200 POUND BEAUTY, the new Korean romantic comedy about weight loss with the director present.
more info:
http://www.koreanfilmfestival.org/
LIFE OF OHARU (1952, Japan, 133 minutes)
Friday, August 17 – Sunday, August 19 @ noon
Kenji Mizoguchi’s exquisite, slow moving chronicle of a woman falling from the top of social order all the way to the bottom in 17th Century Japan is considered one of his best movies and if you want a little protein with your moviegoing this summer instead of all the empty calories at the multiplex, this is your ticket. As they say, “Nobody suffers like Oharu.”
read more:
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/22/oharu.html
THE MAKIOKA SISTERS (1983, Japan, 130 minutes)
Friday, September 28 – Sunday, September 30 @ noon
Kon Ichikawa adapts what is considered to be one of Japan’s greatest 20th Century novels, THE MAKIOKA SISTERS, and turns in a nostalgic, big budget ode to cozy, Japanese family life in the years leading up to the Pacific War. It’s been criticized for what it leaves out of the novel, but it’s also considered a masterful piece of cinema.
read a review:
http://www.timeout.com/film/newyork/reviews/72607/The_Makioka_Sisters.html
The ImaginAsian
CHAK DE INDIA (2007, India)
Daily @ 3:15pm, 6:30pm & 9:45pm
Shah Rukh Khan in a massive, glittering Yash Chopra production. If that’s not enough for you: Shah Rukh Khan playing a down-on-his-luck field hockey coach who takes a ragtag team to the World Cup. Still not enough? It’s directed by Shimit Amin, who also edited. And who’s this guy? He’s the director of AB TAK CHHAPPAN, one of the great corrupt cop movies of all time. This flick blew audiences away at the 2006 New York Asian Film Festival and he’s assembled the same technical team to do justice to this big budget feel good movie. It’s the sports movie as a super-predator, a deranged bunch of nuttiness that hits all the cliches and adds some extra brutality while cranking the feel-good factor up way past 11.
read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chak_De_India
buy tickets:
http://www.theimaginasian.com/nowplaying/index.php?cid=900&date=20070810
read an AB TAK CHHAPPAN review:
http://www.subwaycinema.com/frames/nyaff06_atc.htm
Korean Cultural Service (460 Park Avenue, 6th floor)
WOMAN ON THE BEACH (2006, Korea, 128 minutes)
Thursday, August 23 @ 6:30pm
Hong Sang-Soo’s latest movie is a spectacular, art-minded comedy about a love triangle unraveling. An official selection of the New York Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival.
read a review:
http://twitchfilm.net/archives/007574.html
Pioneer Two Boots
PAPRIKA (2007, Japan)
August 17 @ 11pm
August 24 @ 10:30pm
August 25 @ 7pm
August 31 @ 10:30pm
If you missed Satoshi Kon’s mind-bending animated movie about dreams run amock and dreamers in danger, then here’s your chance to see it on the (relatively) big screen. There’s nothing more to say about it except that it’s one of the best movies of the year and you should really check it out.
read reviews:
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/paprika?q=paprika
more info:
http://www.twoboots.com/pioneer/
ZEBRAMAN (2003, Japan)
Wednesday, August 15 – Thursday, August 23 @ 9pm
Takashi Miike’s ode to fandom hasn’t been released yet in the United States and it’s well worth your time. Sho Aikawa stars as a loser elementary school teacher whose one good thing in life is his love of obscure Seventies TV superhero, Zebraman. And, of course, this being a Takashi Miike movie, there’s an alien invasion, serial killing crab-heads, the military gets involved and psycho schoolkids attack. See ZEBRAMAN and learn: there is nothing more pure than the love of a fan.
read a review:
http://www.subwaycinema.com/frames/nyaff07_zebraman.htm
more info:
http://www.twoboots.com/pioneer/
Coming Soon
EXILED, the latest movie from Hong Kong’s King of Superbad is hitting US screens on August 31. It came in third place in the Audience Awards for the New York Asian Film Festival after only one screening, and it’s the hardest movie about hard men making hard choices you’ll ever see. Like THE WILD BUNCH only punchier. And in Macau. And with Asian people.
WOOL 100% is one of the strangest Japanese movies of the year, about two elderly, reclusive sisters, the silent young girl who invades their home, and knitting. A tour de force of animation and camera stylistics that’s frustrating, inscrutable and like nothing else you’ll see onscreen all year long. Opening September 12 at the Pioneer Two Boots.
It’s tearing up the Korean box office, it’s been in the works for three years and it’s all about giant Korean snakes destroying Los Angeles. Yes, it’s D-WAR (known in America as DRAGON WARS) opening across the country on September 14.
If you missed the bonkers, off-the-wall, over-the-top Thai action flick DYNAMITE WARRIOR this summer then you should feel sad. But it’s not too late: there’s a one-time-only showing at the Museum of the Moving Image on September 16 @ 2pm.
Now Playing
Anthology Film Archives
KOREAN CINEMA: INDEPENDENT VISIONS OF THE SHORT FILM
Saturday, August 18 @ 6:30pm & Sunday, August 19 @ 6:30pm
Everyone knows that Korea has produced some of the slickest, most crowd-pleasing blockbusters of the last 8 years, but in the shadow of this massive film industry there are still independent artists pursuing their unique visions. The Korean Cultural Service presents two programs of 7 short films that give you an idea of the other side of Korean filmmaking. Relentlessly political, fighting for social justice and change, up to their elbows in gritty realism, these fictional movies run the gamut from battles between corrupt labor unions and the widows of their workers, aging prostitutes who service American soldiers, and two female office workers who are given an extra nighttime assignment: to cook the books at their company so it will avoid taxes.
BAM
NEW YORK KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL
Tuesday, August 21 – Sunday, September 2
Fifteen movies from Korea, including selections of shorts, an 8-film block of Korean horror flicks from Tartan, and a mini-retrospective (5 movies) of Korea’s master director, Im Kwon-Taek. Highlights include KING AND CLOWN, the majorly huge blockbuster from 2006 and 200 POUND BEAUTY, the new Korean romantic comedy about weight loss with the director present.
more info:
http://www.koreanfilmfestival.org/
THE NEW DECADE: HONG KONG FILM
August 16 – 26
An overview of post-97 Hong Kong cinema. There’s some stuff here you’ve seen before and some stuff that’s brand new to New Yorkers. Highlights include: HOUSE OF FURY, a nutty, no-holds-barred, sugary action flick that’s a hell of a lot of fun with a six pack, and a double bill of both of Johnnie To’s ELECTION films on Sunday, August 26. Also, 2 BECOME 1, the Miriam Yeung breast cancer comedy is the kind of thing you’d never see from Hollywood.
read more:
http://www.bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=148
Cinema Village
NEW YORK KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL
Thursday, August 23 – Thursday, August 30
Fifteen movies from Korea, including selections of shorts, an 8-film block of Korean horror flicks from Tartan, and a mini-retrospective (5 movies) of Korea’s master director, Im Kwon-Taek. Highlights include KING AND CLOWN, the majorly huge blockbuster from 2006 and 200 POUND BEAUTY, the new Korean romantic comedy about weight loss with the director present.
more info:
http://www.koreanfilmfestival.org/
THE LAST COMMUNIST (Malaysia, 2006, 90 minutes)
Starts August 29
Amir Muhammed’s avante-documentary musical about the exiled leader of the Communist party in Malaysia has been totally and completely banned in its home country. Which is too bad because this is an incredibly dry, ironic and experimental work that deserves and audience. Muhammed has been called one of the best living cinema essayists and this documentary is proof.
read more:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Malaysia_bans_film_%22The_Last_Communist%22
IFC Center
NEW YORK KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL
Monday, August 27 & Tuesday, August 28
Fifteen movies from Korea, including selections of shorts, an 8-film block of Korean horror flicks from Tartan, and a mini-retrospective (5 movies) of Korea’s master director, Im Kwon-Taek. Highlights include KING AND CLOWN, the majorly huge blockbuster from 2006 and 200 POUND BEAUTY, the new Korean romantic comedy about weight loss with the director present.
more info:
http://www.koreanfilmfestival.org/
LIFE OF OHARU (1952, Japan, 133 minutes)
Friday, August 17 – Sunday, August 19 @ noon
Kenji Mizoguchi’s exquisite, slow moving chronicle of a woman falling from the top of social order all the way to the bottom in 17th Century Japan is considered one of his best movies and if you want a little protein with your moviegoing this summer instead of all the empty calories at the multiplex, this is your ticket. As they say, “Nobody suffers like Oharu.”
read more:
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/22/oharu.html
THE MAKIOKA SISTERS (1983, Japan, 130 minutes)
Friday, September 28 – Sunday, September 30 @ noon
Kon Ichikawa adapts what is considered to be one of Japan’s greatest 20th Century novels, THE MAKIOKA SISTERS, and turns in a nostalgic, big budget ode to cozy, Japanese family life in the years leading up to the Pacific War. It’s been criticized for what it leaves out of the novel, but it’s also considered a masterful piece of cinema.
read a review:
http://www.timeout.com/film/newyork/reviews/72607/The_Makioka_Sisters.html
The ImaginAsian
CHAK DE INDIA (2007, India)
Daily @ 3:15pm, 6:30pm & 9:45pm
Shah Rukh Khan in a massive, glittering Yash Chopra production. If that’s not enough for you: Shah Rukh Khan playing a down-on-his-luck field hockey coach who takes a ragtag team to the World Cup. Still not enough? It’s directed by Shimit Amin, who also edited. And who’s this guy? He’s the director of AB TAK CHHAPPAN, one of the great corrupt cop movies of all time. This flick blew audiences away at the 2006 New York Asian Film Festival and he’s assembled the same technical team to do justice to this big budget feel good movie. It’s the sports movie as a super-predator, a deranged bunch of nuttiness that hits all the cliches and adds some extra brutality while cranking the feel-good factor up way past 11.
read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chak_De_India
buy tickets:
http://www.theimaginasian.com/nowplaying/index.php?cid=900&date=20070810
read an AB TAK CHHAPPAN review:
http://www.subwaycinema.com/frames/nyaff06_atc.htm
Korean Cultural Service (460 Park Avenue, 6th floor)
WOMAN ON THE BEACH (2006, Korea, 128 minutes)
Thursday, August 23 @ 6:30pm
Hong Sang-Soo’s latest movie is a spectacular, art-minded comedy about a love triangle unraveling. An official selection of the New York Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival.
read a review:
http://twitchfilm.net/archives/007574.html
Pioneer Two Boots
PAPRIKA (2007, Japan)
August 17 @ 11pm
August 24 @ 10:30pm
August 25 @ 7pm
August 31 @ 10:30pm
If you missed Satoshi Kon’s mind-bending animated movie about dreams run amock and dreamers in danger, then here’s your chance to see it on the (relatively) big screen. There’s nothing more to say about it except that it’s one of the best movies of the year and you should really check it out.
read reviews:
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/paprika?q=paprika
more info:
http://www.twoboots.com/pioneer/
ZEBRAMAN (2003, Japan)
Wednesday, August 15 – Thursday, August 23 @ 9pm
Takashi Miike’s ode to fandom hasn’t been released yet in the United States and it’s well worth your time. Sho Aikawa stars as a loser elementary school teacher whose one good thing in life is his love of obscure Seventies TV superhero, Zebraman. And, of course, this being a Takashi Miike movie, there’s an alien invasion, serial killing crab-heads, the military gets involved and psycho schoolkids attack. See ZEBRAMAN and learn: there is nothing more pure than the love of a fan.
read a review:
http://www.subwaycinema.com/frames/nyaff07_zebraman.htm
more info:
http://www.twoboots.com/pioneer/
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