Your emails have been heard – details of this year’s New York Asian Film Festival, June 25 – July 8, line-up will be revealed soon. But for now, what’s happening in NYC?

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Two Wives.

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We’re in the last three days of Japan Society’s MAD, BAD & DANGEROUS to know. Catch these electrifying, rarely screened features before they’re packed back away in the vaults and go unseen for all eternity. The remaining movies are THE AFFAIR (Thursday, April 15 @ 7:30pm) with Mariko Okada embracing the legacy of her mother’s infidelity by seducing a couple of guys herself as the movie unfolds in a stark succession of black&white images; WOMAN OF THE LAKE (Sunday, April 18 @ 6:30PM) sees Mariko Okada in a movie described as a “…surrealist erotic story reminiscent of Antonioni’s visual universe and some of Bergman’s formal experiments…” and which sounds a bit like Shinya Tsukamoto’s A SNAKE OF JUNE; and then there’s TWO WIVES (Sunday, April 18 @ 8:45pm) a color masterpiece from famed director Yasuzo Masumura that has never been screened before outside of Japan. Starring Mariko Okada and Ayako Wakao this is the last movie  in the series and it’s absolutely unmissable.

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From April 14 – April 22, Film Forum is screening (still) movies by Akira Kurosawa. This time out, it’s two of his lesser-screened movies, DERSU UZALA and DODES’KA-DEN (screening in a new 35mm print). (tickets and showtimes)

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Jet Li’s WARLORDS is still playing at Cinema Village and has plenty of showtimes listed, which means that it’s doing well. And that’s as it should be. This is the most satisfying ancient Chinese martial epics to come along in years. (tickets & showtimes)

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The old ImaginAsia, now the Big Cinemas, is still playing DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, which is weird. Whatever happened to Bollywood films?

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The works of Korean indie director, Jeon Soo-Il, are largely unseen in North America, but NYU is hosting the director and a selected retrospective of his films from April 23 – 25 and they’re well worth your time. Also, if you’re a fan of actor Choi Min-Sik (of OLDBOY fame) he’s the star of Jeon’s latest, HIMALAYA: WHERE THE WIND DWELLS, which will also be featured in the retro. (full info)

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