NYAFF: DAY 1
Saturday, June 21st, 2008Last night was Day 1 of this year’s New York Asian Film Festival and it was the kind of film fiesta that people will be regurgitating onto the heads of their children and their grand-children for generations to come. See these happy merry-makers in their enormous reclining lounge chairs before the sold-out screening of THEN SUMMER CAME? They make the “V” for victory right before director Ryo Iwamatsu takes the stage after he spent all day at Yankee stadium hanging out with Matsui who was recovering from a lightly injured knee.
The audience lurks in the dark, like wolves.
See their faces and TREMBLE WITH FEAR!
The audience suddenly stops lurking in the dark, as we start taking pictures with a better camera!
Director Iwamatsu takes the stage.
Also, at the IFC Center, some secret usher or manager has started doing magic marker sketches for every movie on the dry erase board they use to direct ticket-holders to the right theater. Ephemeral art, preserved forever on our blog for the space children of our future loins to enjoy.
Joe Odagiri: magic marker man.
Chanbara Beauty is a thing of deviant beauty.