Subway Cinema News: Sept. 4 - 11
Welcome to this week’s Subway Cinema News. It’s the Asian movies playing in NYC that you want to see.
What’s up with the ImaginAsian theater? Their website hasn’t been updated with new movies since August 21, and according to the site, there’s nothing playing today. So don’t go there, I guess? Who knows….but it’d be sad if the best Bollywood theater in Manhattan was closed, even temporarily.
(UPDATE: Al informs us that the ImaginAsian theater site is no longer being updated, but ticket sales are now being handled on Movieweb.com. The current movie playing at the newly renamed Phoenix Adlabs - The ImaginAsian Theater is Bollywood flick HIJACK! More info)
Indian-shot film about a pool cleaner in Goa, THE POOL, from the director of AMERICAN MOVIE, is still playing at Film Forum until September 16. (More info)
Takashi Miike’s gobsmacking SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO is still playing at the Landmark Sunshine. Yay! It was the number one indie film for its opening weekend so let’s all wish it a long, lucrative run. (Read a review)
At the Angelika, YEAR OF THE FISH is a Chinatown Cinderella story that slips between fantasy and reality, using animation to apply some magic to everyday grit as it tells the story of Ye Xian, a young girl working in a seedy massage parlor in NYC. (More info)
Big things happening at MOMA as well. The film exhibit “Looking at Music” is screening several flicks to pique the interest of Asian film fans.
THE STRANGE MUSIC OF NAM JUN PAIK, follows the titular video artist through their origins as a composer and classical pianist. You’ll see the influence of John Cage on Paik’s sprawling installations and Paik’s own musical passions are revealed. It’s screening September 6 @ 4:15pm and September 14 @ 2pm. (More info)
In NAM JUN PAIK - A TRIBUTE TO JOHN CAGE, Paik directs a documentary that cuts together interviews, performances and stories that reflect Cage’s influence on Paik’s work. (More info)
As part of the “Jazz Score” exhibit, Shohei Imamura’s DR AKAGI (KANZO SENSEI) will screen on September 6 @ 8:30pm and September 8 @ 6:15pm. This flick is set in a Japanese fishing village at the end of WW II. Japanese nationalism and Western admiration merge and clash while swing and jazz offsets the scenic Japanese coastline. (More info)