On September 24, 2010 it will arrive. Two and a half years in the making. One man. One robot. One hot comet of insanity.

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Rajnikanth is….

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Comments (1) Aug 31 2010

(Update: GHOST is screening on Halloween itself – Sunday, October 31 @ 4pm at the Tribeca Screening Room)

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KOREAN MOVIE NIGHT
from September 14, 2010 – October 31, 2010
courtesy of the Korean Cultural Service
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Every other Tuesday @ 7pm
Tribeca Cinemas
(54 Varick Street, on the corner of Canal Street, one block from the A, C, E and 1 train Canal Street stops)
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Price? Free.
All seating is first-come, first served. Doors
open at 6:30pm.
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UPCOMING MOVIES

Series Three: Documentaries

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TUESDAY, September 14 @ 7pm
TURN IT UP TO 11 (2009, 93 minutes, New York Premiere)
Winner of four major film awards, and the documentary that spawned the Korean catch phrase, “I don’t think we’re gonna make it,” TURN IT UP TO 11 is a rambunctious rock n’roll odyssey about Incheon’s unlikeliest talent incubator: Ruby Salon. A tiny, hole-in-the-wall club founded by aging punk Lee Kyou-Young, who moved back home to Incheon after accidentally getting his girlfriend pregnant, Ruby Salon is the seed that sprouts two bands: Galaxy Express, a tight, ambitious outfit who dream of stardom; and Tobacco Juice, a band whose members are so lazy they can’t even be bothered to show up for their own gigs. As one band goes up, and the other goes down, this slacker doc follows them to shows, bars, massive concerts, antagonistic rehearsals and empty clubs in the best movie ever made about the Korean music scene.

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Turn it Up to 11

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TUESDAY, September 28 @ 7pm
DANCE OF TIME (2009, 92 minutes, New York Premiere)
Song Il-Gon is the director of such classic Korean arthouse films as FEATHER IN THE WIND and the one-take-wonder, THE MAGICIANS, and here he turns his attention to a documentary, directing a relaxed, sun-soaked, lighthearted ode to love, dance, music, Santeria and Cuba. Starting at the turn of the century, DANCE OF TIME follows Cuba’s tiny community of Koreans from their accidental immigration to the present, along the way surviving wars, revolutions, and tumultuous romances. A little-known part of Cuba, these Koreans have blossomed into a vital part of the island’s culture and almost no one has heard of them. This slick, technically accomplished documentary, throbbing with music, takes care of that problem.

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Dance of Time

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TUESDAY, October 12 @ 7pm
GRANDMOTHER’S FLOWER (2008, 89 minutes)
It’s one of the most astonishing documentaries about modern day Korea ever made. Director Mun Jeong-Hyun is pressured into returning to his hometown to make a documentary about his grandmother. What starts as the most banal motion picture ever made becomes traumatic when he begins to pull on the threads of his family history, and everything unravels. Ultimately lifting the lid off his peaceful hometown of Naju, he reveals a hair raising history of conflict between intellectual left wingers and working class right wingers who have been at each others’ throats since the Japanese occupation. It begins with torture, persecution and secret executions and ends with self-mutilation, decades of discrimination, threats against the filmmaker, and a family exiled over three countries. A searing look at what history has done to the Korean people, this is the kind of documentary that keeps upping the ante, finding new realms of pain and suffering to inflict as history has its way with its victims.

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Grandmother’s Flower

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SPECIAL HALLOWEEN SCREENING!!!

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Sunday, October 31 @ 4pm
GHOST aka BE WITH ME (2010, 100 minutes, US Premiere)
Definitely not a documentary. Every summer it’s horror movie time in Korea, but this year, BE WITH ME captured attention not by scaring the pants off its audience, but by offering a fresh take on the omnibus ghost film by some of Korea’s hottest young directors who take the traditional horror movie in a funnier, more experimental and more moving direction. These three stories about ghosts star a cast of some of the best young actors in Korea including Kim Kkot-Bi (BREATHLESS) and Kim Ye-Ri (PAJU) and they center around the loneliness of the dead. From the tale of  two best friends (and the boy who got one of them pregnant) competing for a single slot at a top college, to the story of a boy branded as a loser because he sees dead people, this is one of the freshest takes on the genre to come along in years.

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Ghost

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