Welcome to this week’s Subway Cinema News. The big news this week…the New York Film Festival is in town with tons of new Asian movies and retro goodness.

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In terms of new movies, they’re screening Bong Joon-Ho’s unmissable MOTHER, Sabu’s much-acclaimed CRAB CANNERY SHIP (going by the Japanese title KANIKOSEN and one of the Village Voice’s top five picks of the fest – watch the trailer here) and the other big movie that’s getting a lot of press, Zhao Dayong’s three-hour documentary GHOST TOWN about the few remaining residents of a tiny little town in the middle of Nowheresville, China. (tickets and more info)

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Bong Joon-Ho’s unmissable MOTHER.

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The New York Film Festival is going all-out for Asian retrospectives this year. From September 26 – October 6 they’ll be presenting the academically-titled (Re)inventing China: A New Cinema for a New Society 1949 – 1966 which is a massive, twenty-film retrospective of movies from early Communist China. (Full info)

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Then, from October 7 – 11 they’ll be doing a Guru Dutt retrospective, A Heart as (Big) as the World: the Films of Guru Dutt. Although black-and-white Indian movies may not be your cup of tea, give something by Guru Dutt a chance. Like Hollywood’s golden age studio slaves, he created a personal cinema inside a massive commercial moviemaking system. (Full info)

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October 3, the Korea Society and the Film Society of Lincoln Center present CROSSROADS OF YOUTH, a very special screening for the Keaton’s in which Alex learns that kindly, fun-loving Uncle Ned may have a problem with…alcoholism. Just kidding! It’s actually a very special screening of Korea’s oldest surviving silent film, with live musical accompaniment and a narrator. Much more information here. This is part of the New York Film Festival.

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Hayao Miyazaki’s PONY is still playing all over town, including screenings at the Landmark Sunshine. Still! Unbelievable! And great! (showtimes)

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