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The Film Society of Lincoln Center presents the 46th New York Film Festival with 28 films from all over the world that features award winning as well as newbie filmmakers. Festival opens on September 26th and continues until October 12. Get your tickets now for Jia Zhangke’s 24 CITY, a film that looks at the modern luxuries and sordid underbelly of China’s progressive development. Also check out the new and improved epic sword fight and vision quest of ASHES OF TIME REDUX by Wong Kar-wai. (More info)
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As a sidebar to the New York Film Festival, a long look at the films of Nagisa Oshima, a mover and shaker in modern cinema who hails from Japan and established global influence. The series “In the Realm of Oshima” starts September 27 and continues until October 14, 2008. (More info)
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At the Anthology Film Archives there’s a rare chance to see Lee Myung-Se’s business comedy, BITTER & SWEET, which is almost never screened. This was Director Lee’s first foray into real cinematic experimentalism, making an absurdist comedy that’s staged like a musical and stars Korean screen icon Ahn Sung-Ki. It screens Thursday, September 25 @ 6:30pm. (More info)
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At ImaginAsian, Manish Acharya’s LOINS OF PUNJAB PRESENTS is a political Bollywood film that spoofs the “American Idol” craze as it follows the various contestants for the “Desi Idol” contest. (More info)
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At the Asia Society, now through October 18th, a series of five documentaries in the film exhibit, “Under Mao’s Red Sun: China’s Cultural Revolution on Film” that delve into the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). Complete listings and schedule. (More info)
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On September 25 at 6:30pm, a screening and discussion of David Chung’s KORYO SARAM: THE UNRELIABLE PEOPLE at the Cantor Film Center. Using archival footage and interviews, the film is a visual history of the deported Koreans in Kazakhstan as they struggle to establish a home in a foreign land. (More info)
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