NYAFF: Day 6
This was the slow day. It’s the end of the first week of the festival, about a third of the way through, and I imagine it’s a bit like the part in Columbus’s voyage to the New World where they were just floating around in the middle of the ocean and every morning some sailor would pop his head up through a hatch, look around, say, “More ocean,” and then they’d all go back to sleep. Magic Marker Rembrandt wasn’t sleeping, though!
After its second screening, ASSEMBLY continues to lead the Audience Award votes but its lead has been reduced to a hair.
Also we all sat around and came up with a great set of super-prizes for our July 3 screenings at the IFC Center. That’s the day when we do the heavy metal line-up of joycore headbangers: THE REBEL, followed by Miike’s LIKE A DRAGON, followed by the shocking TOKYO GORE POLICE, followed by the massive Korean blockbuster, PUBLIC ENEMY RETURNS, followed by ACTION BOYS with the director and stuntmen present and then finishing off the night with SASORI, the sleaziest women-in-prison movie ever made. The best thing about July 3 is that THE REBEL, LIKE A DRAGON and TOKYO GORE POLICE are all matinee shows so you can buy the Subway Matinee Six Pack (6 tickets, coming in at about $8.25 each instead of $11.50) and use them to bring friends to these shows. It’s your chance to see LIKE A DRAGON, TOKYO GORE POLICE and THE REBEL for super-cheap.