Mike Atkinson, the man who has written about just about every single NYAFF ever staged, pops up in the Village Voice again to give a rundown of this year’s festival and here’s what he has to say in his own inimitable way:

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MILOCRORZE: “…like a Japanese variety show on 78 rpms and evolving into a parody of samurai romanticism, including a sword battle through a brothel that is equal parts hyper-bullet-time and Buster Keaton slapstick.”

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Yeah! Hyper-Bullet-Time!

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KARATE-ROBO ZABORGAR: “…the minions of Tarantino will hardly be able to resist a movie with both a Diarrhea Robot (!) and a Bulldog Car Robot (!).”

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Yeah! Bulldog Car Robot!

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LAST DAYS OF THE WORLD: “…begins as yet another disaffected teenage quasi-comedy, but then takes flight as the dead-eyed kid in question grabs a girl, steals a car, runs over pedestrians, and then runs until he runs out of land—all because he has hallucinated an apocalyptic message from a three-inch God.”

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Yeah! Three-inch God!

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HEAVENS STORY: “…the fest’s most fiery gauntlet.”

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Yeah! Fiery gauntlet!

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BUDDHA MOUNTAIN: “…a restless, gritty generational-anthem about three lost post-teen friends in Chengdu that delivers on its hyperrealism ambitions…”

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Yeah! Lost post-teen friends!

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But he reserves his highest praise for SELL OUT!, of which he writes, “…a ceaselessly inventive excoriation of modern industry and reality-show media that begins on a TV interview with the boring director of popularly boring Asian art films, trips through a thorough rip of Dilbert-style corporate Catch-22s, and very often bursts into infectious song…a loose, rich, beguiling, sometimes sophomoric Godardian triumph, and deserves a distributor with walnuts to take it on the road in this country.”

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Yeah! Sell Out!

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Read it all for yourself, and then come on uptown to the NYAFF and settle in for two weeks of our alternate multiplex, where we’re screening the best Asian movies of the last couple of years just for you.

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