Subway Cinema News: Oct 1 - 9
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
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On Wednesday, October 1 at 7pm as part of BAM’s “Ann Arbor Film Festival International Tour Program,” be sure and check out May Lin Au Yong’s BULLET PROOF VEST, a provocative piece about children in Richmond, California who feel the need to dodge bullets in their everyday lives. (More info) (Even more info)
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At ImaginAsian opening October 2, Goldie Behl’s DRONA, a modern narrative intertwined with Indian mythology and mysticism. Very Harry Potter meets Bollywood.
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On October 4, The Asia Society and the Sikh Art & Film Foundation a series of films, shorts, and forums. Learn more about the artistic contributions and influence of Sikh culture and traditions. (More info)
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The Film Society of Lincoln Center presents the 46th New York Film Festival with 28 films from all over the world that features award winning as well as newbie filmmakers. Festival continues until October 12. Get your tickets now for Jia Zhangke’s 24 CITY, a film that looks at the modern luxuries and sordid underbelly of China’s progressive development. (More info)
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As a sidebar to the New York Film Festival, a long look at the films of Nagisa Oshima, Japan’s last truly radical filmmaker. The series “In the Realm of Oshima” continues until October 14, 2008. This is one of the biggest and most comprehensive looks at a filmmaker who never met a rule he didn’t immediately want to break and who worked with talents as diverse as David Bowie and Takeshi Kitano. (More info)
There’s also a great piece on the retrospective in the Village Voice today.
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Opening at the Angelika on October 10, Wong Kar Wai’s new and improved epic sword fight and vision quest in ASHES OF TIME REDUX. Yo-Yo Ma ’s haunting melodies unfold with the story of a tragic swordsman and his rise to fame. This is a re-working, rescoring and re-editing of Wong Kar-wai’s legendary puzzlement object from 1994.