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The New York Asian Film Festival has just announced their line-up for 2011, and you can read through the list of films over here. It runs the first couple of weeks of July.
A few highlights - they've got Takashi Miike's latest, a swivel from the seriousness of 13 Assassins (serious awesomeness) called Ninja Kids!!! Yes, those are his exclamation points. It is about... okay, you know what it's about. They're also showing the director's cut of 13 Assassins which apparently has 17 more minutes of footage.
They're showing several films by Tsui Hark, none of which I've seen but I've heard excellent things of, and he'll be there for all of them, it seems. Zu: Warriors From Magic Mountain sounds especially interesting.
The Yellow Sea is the new film from the director of the terrific (and terrifically underseen here) movie The Chaser, and sounds like more nail-biting suspense and action of that sort.
And speaking of The Chaser, they're showing that film and a bunch of the films that followed in its wake - it was a big hit in Korea and spawned all sorts of similarly twisty thrillers. One of them, The Man From Nowhere, is on Netflix and I just watched it a few weeks ago. Won Bin - who played the touched son in Mother - is a pleasure to stare at (especially when he strips down at one point, as seen above) but it was a little bit like a beefed-up Jean Claude Van Damme movie from 1993 (I know, I know, I say that as if its a bad thing?).
There's also a female version of Deliverance called Bedevilled which NYAFF is calling "the greatest women versus men movie ever made," although I've come to regard NYAFF's effusiveness with a very large grain of salt. They tend towards the ultra enthusiastic. Which, ya know, bless em for it. Anyway, "female version of Deliverance" kinda sells itself. Apparently the lead actress won some awards for her performance.
There's also gonna be 10 year anniversary screenings of Battle Royale and Versus, which are both such utter batshit insane delights. Looks like a great fest this year!
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I'm not American, so I probably don't count as "here", but I don't think it got much play in the UK either, so: The Chaser is fantastic. Such a dark and exhilarating thriller; the photography is still seared into my mind, the chases are so well shot. And I loved how it approached the plot from the opposite angle, it was much more frightening as a result.
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