Sunday, June 29, 2008
Saturday, June 21, 2008
NY Asian Film Festival June 20 - July 6
Launched in 2002, Subway Cinema's New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) is America's leading and most influential showcase for popular Asian cinema. Each year, the Festival selects over 30 feature films, considering only the best, the strangest, and the most entertaining of the recent titles.
Some films I'd like to see:
Arch Angels
HARRY POTTER meets CHARLIE’S ANGELS in this surreal flick about Catholic schoolgirls with superpowers fighting evil nuns and funky kidnappers.
Dorodoro
Disney movie + Lord of the Rings + samurai film + LSD = this huge Japanese blockbuster about a wandering swordsman who fights demons. Crazy fun for the whole family!
L: Change the World
The DEATH NOTE movies were massive hits in Japan (and at last year’s NYAFF) and here’s the latest installment in the series, courtesy of Hideo Nakata (THE RING). L, the Goth Sherlock Holmes with the killer sweet tooth, fights a flesh-melting virus in this slick summer blockbuster.
Sukiyaki Western Django
Takashi Miike’s English-language spaghetti western is bigger! Louder! Faster! More! Wild shoot-outs, female gunslingers and Quentin Tarantino in a supporting role – pure maniac movie overload orgasm!
(umm, maybe, the trailer was good)
This World of Ours
First film from a 25-year-old kid, it’s a howl of rage about the death of innocence. Drawing a line from 9/11 to school shootings it’s a digital riff on A CLOCKWORK ORANGE that screams and howls and bleeds.
there are others ... and there are the really, really freaky leave your sanity at the door flicks that I'm going to pass on. The trailers alone were enough to make me go ooookay, not for me.
But I think there's a lot for everyone to enjoy.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Satoshi Kon and Bricklane film
The Film Society at Lincoln Center is welcoming Satoshi Kon to the Walter Reade Theater for a complete mid-career retrospective of his work as a director. All four of Kon's feature films will be screened, as well as the animator's cult-favorite television series Paranoia Agent. Following the 6:15 p.m. screening of Paprika on Friday, June 27, Kon will join in an onstage conversation with Film Society program director Richard Pena. Additionally, an exhibition of the animator's artwork will be on display in the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery, adjacent to the Walter Reade Theater lobby.
Check the Film Society at Lincoln Center website for full the program-lineup and other information.
For a chance to win a prize package (including a series pass to see all of the films, a soundtrack from Paprika, and a poster) send an e-mail to nypromo@theonion.com with "Lincoln Center" in the subject line.
The Walter Reade Theater
West 65th St. (bet. Broadway and Amsterdam Ave.)
(212) 875-5606
$15, $12 for Students and Members
The South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA) and SONY PICTURES
CLASSICS present
THE PREMIERE OF BRICK LANE
THE MOVIE BASED ON MONICA ALI'S NOVEL
Columbia University's Roone Arledge Cinema in Lerner Hall at 115th and Broadway
(enter the building from from the campus side)
**SPECIAL GUESTS DIRECTOR SARAH GAVRON AND STAR TANNISHTHA CHATTERJEE**
Reception sponsored by Nair & Co.
6-6:45 p.m.
Screening sponsored by Sony Pictures Classics
7 p.m. (Movie will start promptly)
Q&A with Gavron and Chatterjee, moderated by Aseem Chhabra, arts
writer and SAJA Board member
following the screening
THIS EVENT IS FREE BUT YOU MUST REGISTER
http://www.ersvp.com/r/bricklane
***YOU MUST BRING A PRINTOUT OF YOUR RECEIPT (from e-mail or from the
website)***
Brick Lane opens in NY and LA on June 20 and additional cities across
the US in the following weeks. More info at
http://www.sonyclassics.com/bricklane/
See the trailer:
http://www.sajaconvention.org/thursday/index.html
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
'Take Out' film
http://takeoutthemovie.com/home.htm
Take Out is a day-in-the-life of Ming Ding (Charles Jang), an illegal Chinese immigrant working as a deliveryman for a Chinese take-out shop in New York City. Ming is behind with payments on his huge debt to the smugglers who brought him to the United States. The collectors have given him until the end of the day to deliver the money that is due. After borrowing most of the money from friends and relatives, Ming realizes that the remainder must come from the day's delivery tips. In order to do so, he must make more than double his average daily income.
In a social-realist style, the camera follows Ming on his deliveries throughout the upper Manhattan neighborhood where social and economic extremes exist side by side. Intercutting between Ming's deliveries and the daily routine of the restaurant, Take Out presents a harshly real look at the daily lives of illegal Chinese immigrants in New York City.
June 6th at Quad Cinemas in NYC
34 West 13th st (bet. 5/6 avenues)
Big Apple Comic Con
The oldest and longest running Comic, Art and Toy, Sci-Fi show in New York City !
Next Show
Summer Sizzler
June 7-8th
Saturday 10am-7pm and Sunday 10am-6pm
at the
Penn Plaza Pavilion
401 Seventh Avenue at 33rd St.
New York, N.Y., 10001-2062
Admission $15.00