The editors of Film Comment, the monthly magazine of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and Subway Cinema, the programmers of the New York Asian Film Festival (which will be returning this July to the Walter Reade Theater - yeah!!!!!), have teamed up for three thrill-packed, blood-soaked appetizers...
For information about these three co-presentations and all the other films being shown, and to order tickets online, click here. (Note that at this link, the films are listed in alphabetical order.)
I SAW THE DEVIL
Directed by Kim Ji-woon
South Korea, 2010, 141 minutes
Sunday, February 20 at 1:00 PM
Giving new meaning to catch-and-release, a secret agent searches for the serial wacko who murdered his fiancée and takes a very special form of vengeance. The twisty, gruesome new thriller by the director of The Good, the Bad, the Weird was initially banned in South Korea for its meticulous attention to bloody detail. Marked by Kim's agile set pieces, and a sustained mood of encroaching darkness, it stars Lee Byung-hun (The Good, the Bad, the Weird) and Choi Min-sik (Oldboy). Also: don't miss the six-film Kim Ji-woon retrospective at BAMcinematek, February 25 to March 2!
COLD FISH
Directed by Sion Sono
Japan, 2010, 144 minutes
Thursday, February 24 at 8:00 PM
and
Tuesday, March 1 at 8:45 PM
"Cold Fish is two-and-a-half hours of full throttle hysteria, splattered in eye-gougingly garish hues. Shamoto, the mild-mannered proprietor of a tropical fish store, finds himself and his family drawn into the orbit of a jovial fellow fish dealer named Murata, a serial killer who gleefully slaughters their business competitors and disposes of their remains...Beneath the film's copious helping of blood, bones, and innards lies a post-economic bubble ero guro parable about the ordinary fascism of contemporary Japan's middle class."-Olaf Möller, Film Comment, November/December 2010
LEGEND OF THE FIST: THE RETURN OF CHEN ZHEN
Directed by Andrew Lau
China, 2010, 104 minutes
Friday, February 25 at 10:45 PM
From the director of Infernal Affairs, this razzle-dazzle action flick set on the eve of World War II marks a new chapter in the mythology of Chen Zhen, the masked martial arts character originated by Bruce Lee in Fists of Fury. Returning to Shanghai after the death of his mentor, Chen (Donnie Yen) joins the resistance against the impending Japanese invasion--all the while unknowingly romancing a Japanese double agent. Superheroic fighting and crazed camerawork ensue.
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