Welcome to this week’s Subway Cinema News.

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The big news this week? Celebrate Halloween with a special screening of the Japanese cult classic HOUSE on Halloween, October 31 at 2pm, 4:30pm, 6:50pm and 9:15pm. This flick had two sold-out screenings to two crazed audiences at this summer’s New York Asian Film Festival and it will blow your mind. Read all about it here. Then go to the BAM site and buy tickets here.

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This HOUSE is made of bonkers.

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Also, this week the South Asian International Film Festival is running. Movies of note are:

- THE LAST THAKUR: not the most pulse-pounding western you’ll ever see but it’s a pretty fascinating film noir western set in Bangladesh.

- RED ALERT: a thrashing flick about a farmer drafted into the modern-day Maoist revolutionary Draxalite movement. Lots of guns, lots of shouting, lots of Maoist theory.

- BUBONIC FILMS GONZO TRAILER EXTRAVAGANZA – if you’ve never been treated to Omar “Hell’s Ground” Khan’s package of freaked-out Pakistani exploitation film clips and trailers then you haven’t lived. A can’t miss screening.

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One dude. Two lions. Two knives.

Stabbing their brains. Pakistani

exploitation FTW!!!!

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More info on the festival can be found here.

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Thursday, October 29th, the best film in the Korean Cultural Service’s “Sisterly Ties” series will be playing, SISTERS ON THE ROAD, starring Shin Min-Ah (from GO GO 70’s, BITTERSWEET LIFE and VOLCANO HIGH) and Kong Hyo-Jin (recipient of the first ever NYAFF Rising Star of Asia award). (More info on the film) (More info on the series)

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Sistahs on the Road!

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On Sunday, November 1 at 3pm and 7pm, BAM is screening Hou Hsiao-hsien’s masterpiece (well, I prefer THE PUPPETMASTER, but there you go) CITY OF SADNESS starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai. (More info)

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ONG BAK 2, Tony Jaa’s monster-sized crazy epic of punching and kicking is still screening only at the Village East Cinemas. (See showtimes) (Read a review)

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ONG BAK 2 will hurt your face.

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And don’t miss the last day (Thursday!) of Hong Sang-Soo’s NIGHT & DAY at the Anthology Film Archives. It’s a great film from one of Korea’s greatest directors, set in France. Plus, the Anthology deserves your support. (More info)

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