The Bong Joon-Ho retrospective is over, Film Comment Selects is over, is there anything going on that’s worthwhile.

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Yes!

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Do not miss: a free screening! Ryu Seung-Wan’s first film, DIE BAD, is screening for free as part of the Korean Cultural Service’s Korean Movie Night. On Tuesday, March 9 @ 7pm, at the Tribeca Cinemas, Ryu Seung-Wan’s amazing first film, a $55,000 feature assembled Frankenstein-style from three short films he made, hits the screen like a punch to your jaw. It’s a no-holds-barred action flick that shows you why Ryu went on to become probably the greatest action film director in the world. Tickets are first come, first served. Doors open at 6:30pm (read a review)

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Die Bad.

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From action flicks to arthouse movies, NYC has it all. Holding up the arthouse side is the Asia Society which is holding “China’s Past, Present, Future on Film” from March 6 – April 16. First up is the Saturday, March 6 screening of XIAO JIA GOING HOME at 2:30pm. Here’s what they say:

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French-Algerian documentary filmmaker Damien Ounouri follows leading Chinese Sixth Generation film director Jia Zhangke to his small home town of Fenyang in Shanxi province after he won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival for Still Life (2006).

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Better yet, the movie is followed by a Q&A with Jia Zhangke and his muse, Zhao Tao. Live! They’re in New York! (Tickets are only $7) (more info)

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And Jia Zhangke is in town all weekend – after Asia Society he moves over to MOMA for a Jia Zhangke retrospective from March 5  – 20. It’s all of Jia’s films, from his earliest to his most recent (PICKPOCKET! PLATFORM! THE WORLD! and the amazing STILL LIFE!). Even better, on Monday, March 8 @ 7pm there’s An Evening with Jia Zhangke with clips from his latest film, SHANGHAI LEGEND, and a chit chat with Howard Feinstein. (more info)

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Jia Zhangke – don’t you want to have

an evening with this guy?

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Also up this weekend is a slice of the Rotterdam Film Festival doing its thing out at BAM. Rotterdam @ BAM brings a molten slab of Rotterdam’s artsiest Asian movies to Brooklyn. (more info)

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HOUSE, the amazing lyseric Japanese masterpiece from 1977 is still playing at the IFC Center (tickets and showtimes)

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MY NAME IS KHAN, the big Bollywood movie about 9/11 and Asperger’s starring Shah Rukh Khan is still playing all over town, too. (showtimes)

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FORMOSA BETRAYED, the James Van der Beek flick about Taiwanese independence, is still playing at Village East and the old ImaginAsian Theaters. (more info)

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