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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24
THE
LAST SAMURAI
Starring
TOM CRUISE and KEN WATANABE
Monday, November 24th @ 7:30pm
AMC Theaters Empire 25
234 West 42nd Street
 Captain
Nathan Algren (TOM CRUISE) is a man adrift. Once he
risked his life for honor and country but in the years
since the Civil War, the world has changed. Pragmatism
has replaced courage, self-interest has taken the
place of sacrifice and honor is nowhere to be found.
A universe away, another soldier sees his way of life
about to disintegrate. He is Katsumoto (KEN WATANABE),
the last leader of an ancient line of warriors, the
venerated Samurai. Just as the modern way encroached
upon the American West, cornering and condemning the
Native American, it also engulfed traditional Japan.
The telegraph lines and railroads that brought progress
now threaten those values and codes by which the Samurai
have lived and died for centuries.
The paths of these two warriors converge when the
young Emperor of Japan, wooed by American interests
who covet the growing Japanese market, hire Algren
to train Japan’s first modern, conscript army.
But as the Emperor’s advisors attempt to eradicate
the Samurai in preparation for a more Westernized
and trade-friendly government, Algren finds himself
unexpectedly impressed and influenced by his encounters
with the Samurai.
Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Radar Pictures /
Bedford Falls Company / Cruise-Wagner Production.
Directed by Edward Zwick. Official website: www.lastsamurai.com
/ AOL Keyword: The Last Samurai
RSVP REQUIRED. PH 212.989.1422
or specialevents@asiancinevision.org.
You must be a current ACV member. SEATING IS LIMITED,
TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE
BASIS.
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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 •
DISCOUNTED SCREENING FOR ACV MEMBERS!
STRANGERS
Writer/Director:
Ramin Bahrani
83 mins | 35mm | color | Farsi with EST
Friday, October
24, 7:00pm
Asia
Society and Museum
725 Park Avenue & 70th Street
Kaveh, a young man from America, walks the roads of
southern Iran searching for his recently deceased
and estranged father's childhood home. Abdul Reza,
a thirty year old truck driver plagued by financial
needs and family responsibilities, fixes his fatiqued
truck by the side of the road.
Together these two strangers embark on a three day
journey that leads them from a tiny village, to an
ancient graveyard and in search of a murderer. A journey
of conflicts and juxtapositions that forces Kaveh
deeper into the past, and the two of them towards
a sense of forgiveness, friendship and understanding.
A New York premiere. Director Ramin Bahrani discusses
his screenplay and the making of the film.
Official website: www.noruzfilms.com.
Starring Karim Kashani, Amrollah Solati Dalaki, Elyas
Afzali, and Mashti Rostam Paymani.
Price: $7
ACV members; $10 nonmembers; $5 students
For information or to purchase tickets: 212-517-ASIA
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 •
FREE ADVANCE SCREENING FOR ACV MEMBERS!
RETURNER
starring TAKESHI KANESHIRO
Tuesday,
October 14 @ 7:00pm
Loews Village 7, 11th Street at Third Avenue
The year is 2084 and the human race
is fighting an alien militia to save the last remnant
of civilization. A young heroine named Milly (ANNE
SUZUKI) escapes the war and jumps back in time to
present-day Japan in an attempt to change history
and prevent the demise of her people. Milly's return
lands her in the middle of a local crime war between
Miyamoto (TAKESHI KANESHIRO), a street-smart gunman,
and Mizoguchi (GORO KISHITANI), Japan1s crime leader.
Milly must coerce Miyamoto to help chase down the
extraterrestrial and save the human race. But first
Milly must convince Miyamoto she1s for real. In the
visceral, dark, cold world of the streets, these two
fight against the evil and ignorance that will destroy
everything.
A Destination Films and Samuel Goldwyn Films presentation
co-sponsors Asia Society, New York-Tokyo,
CAPE
For more info on the movie:
www.sonypictures.com/returner
RSVP required: specialevents@asiancinevision.org or
call us 212-989-1422. Seating is limited.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 •
SPECIAL ACV MEMBER DISCOUNT!
MILLENNIUM
ACTRESS (SENNEN JOYU)
directed by Satoshi
Kon
Friday, September
5th @ 7:00pm
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue (70th Street), Manhattan
 Fusing
reality and fiction, the renowned anime director Satoshi
Kon (PERFECT BLUE) pushes the boundaries of “Japanimation”
with this adventure romance. Kon tells the story of
a legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara whose life and
career spark the interest of documentary filmmaker
Genya Tachibana. Tachibana becomes obsessed with this
fallen star and determined to unravel the truth behind
her mysterious disappearance. In Japanese with English
subtitles.
Courtesy of DreamWorks. Presented by Asia Society,
Asian CineVision, Metro Anime, and New York-Tokyo.
Image: courtesy of Dreamworks Pictures, TM &
© 2002 Dreamworks LLC
Ticket: $7
members; $10 nonmembers; $5 students.
For information or to purchase tickets: 212-517-ASIA
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JUNE/JULY
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JUNE
27-JULY 10 •
ACV MEMBER DISCOUNT!
The
Film Society of Lincoln Center with Asian CineVision
presents
HEROIC GRACE: THE CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS FILM
Film Society of Lincoln
Center
Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65th Street
New York City
 Bursting
into American consciousness in the social ferment
of the 1970s with Bruce Lee's lightning kung fu (unarmed
combat; literal: skilled effort), the martial arts
film found the mythic-romantic idioms of its other
subgenre, the wuxia pian (swordplay film; literal:
the martial chivalry film) propelled into the mainstream
with CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (2000). Born in
Shanghai in the 20s from the ashes of China's imperial
decline, the martial arts cinema blended modernity
and folkloric tradition. Post-WWII and the 1949 Communist
Revolution, the genre's center of gravity shifted
to Hong Kong. The Shanghai studio Tianyi, remade in
Hong Kong as Shaw Brothers, helped pioneer the "new
school" of Mandarin-language wuxia pian in the 60s,
and kung fu in the 70s when public fancy turned to
combat with sinewy bodies as the primary weapon. This
program sheds light on the studio's heyday when heroes
and heroines somersaulted rather than walked the earth,
villains were legendary, humbleness and loyalty were
prized among all virtues, agility of mind and body
was exalted, pursuits of person or goal were almost
always obsessive, and fighting wondrously became percussive
dance. The genre's most innovative directors prior
to the 80s - names such as King Hu, Zhang Che, Lau
Kar-leung, and Chu Yuan - were Shaw luminaries in
this period. For the past 20 years, their achievements
have largely gone unheralded beyond circles of specialists
and fans because their works, like other Shaw films,
were kept out of circulation. What with faded color,
panning and scanning, and atrocious dubbing, those
prints and videotapes that did exist gave only the
faintest impression of the films' original impact.
This program remedies the situation by presenting
newly preserved 35mm and archival prints, all in their
original language with English subtitles. - Cheng-Sim
Lim, UCLA Film and Television Archive
FULL FILM
PROGRAM AND TIMES: http://filmlinc.com/wrt/programs/7-2003/martialarts.htm
TICKETS: $5.00 ACV/Film Society
members; $9.50 general; $7.00 students
Touring program selected and
organized by the UCLA Film and Television Archive,
and has been made possible with Presenting Sponsorship
from the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in San
Francisco, and additional sponsorship from Cathay
Pacific Airways. (c) Licensed by Celestial Pictures
Ltd. (a company incorporated in Hong Kong SAR). All
rights reserved.
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THURSDAY,
JUNE 19 •
FREE ADVANCE SCREENING FOR ACV MEMBERS!
THE
HULK
directed by Ang Lee
Thursday, June 19, 2003
7:00pm
Beekman Theater
1254 Second Avenue
(btn 65/66 Streets)
 In
association with the American Museum of the Moving
Image, we will present a special preview screening
of Ang Lee's eagerly awaited summer blockbuster movie
THE HULK, as the grand finale to the Ang Lee retrospective
at the Museum. THE HULK is a Universal Pictures release
and stars Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte,
Sam Elliot, and Josh Lucas.
This is a free preview screening open to ACV and AMMI
members only.
NOT AN ACV MEMBER
YET? call us at 212-989-1422
Seating is extremely limited; first come, first
serve basis.
RSVP required by JUNE 15. specialevents@asiancinevision.org
or call us at 212.989.1422
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FRIDAY-SUNDAY,
JUNE 13-15
NEW
YORK-TOKYO FILM FESTIVAL
EXCLUSIVE:
THE ANIMATRIX SCREENING
 Once
again, NEW YORK-TOKYO sets the pace by presenting
their first annual Film Festival premiering the cutting
edge Japanese cinema. We're proud to announce the
screening of a film that truly exemplifies the essence
of Japanese and American collaboration that is NEWYORK-TOKYO
with the Larry and Andy Wachowski's animated exploration
of the Matrix universe, "The Animatrix". Including
Sogo Ishii's long-anticipated "Electric Dragon 80,000
V" (DTS screening), the Festival will premiere various
films from J-Horror to Manga/Anime-based films. Our
director series includes works from seminal independents
such as Hideaki Anno (of Anime "Evangelion" fame),
Hiroyuki Nakano (a Japanese Spike Jonze) and Takashi
Miike (a non-stop film machine). Among our esteemed
guests, we warmly welcome Andy Jones, a director from
the "Animatrix" and Dai Miyazaki, producer of Manga-based
films such as "Uzumaki".
ALL SCREENINGS will be held
at
Tribeca Grand Hotel : 2 Avenue of the Americas, New
York, NY 10003
FOR MORE INFORMATION: P:
212.519.6600
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MAY
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May
31- June 8 •
SPECIAL DISCOUNT FOR ACV MEMBERS!
FINDING
A PLACE: The Films of Ang Lee
 American
Museum of the Moving Image
35 Avenue at 36 Street
Astoria, New York 11106Phone (718) 784-0077
$7.50 ACV members (show membership card at AMMI
box office)
$10 non-members
Ang
Lee's career is developing in a similar fashion to those
of great studio-system directors such as Howard Hawks,
John Huston, and Billy Wilder, who proved their agility
in a wide range of genres, moving fluidly among comedies,
thrillers, dramas, epics, and romances. They were remarkably
skilled with actors, and exhibited an unpretentious
style that placed emphasis on the story and the script.
What raised their films to the level of art was thematic
consistency. Ang Lee, who emigrated from Taiwan to America
to pursue his love of movies, has made a wide range
of crowd- and critic-pleasing films. Yet he has consistently
explored one key theme: the bittersweet efforts of his
characters to find their place in the world, to fit
into a group-whether it is their own families, or society
at large. Lee seems particularly interested in people
looking for freedom in rigid, structured worlds. His
most memorable characters tend to be women who are challenging
the patriarchal order-whether in eighteenth-century
China, modern-day Taiwan, the Civil War-era South, or
1970s suburban Connecticut. Lee's skill and artistry
also come with a rare ability to entertain a wide cross-section
of moviegoers.
Saturday, May 31
2:00 p.m. PUSHING HANDS
Cinepix, 1992, 105 mins. With Sihung Lung, Pamela Yang.
In Lee's gently comic, sharply observed feature debut,
an elderly tai chi master causes domestic havoc when
he moves from Beijing to Yonkers to live with his son's
family.
4:00
p.m. THE WEDDING BANQUET
Samuel Goldwyn, 1993, 111 mins. With Winston Chao, May
Chin, Mitchell Lichtenstein. A cross-cultural New York
gay couple gets tangled up in a heterosexual green-card
wedding and an unexpected visit by parents from Taiwan.
This deftly plotted, thoroughly enjoyable farce was
a surprise indie hit.
Sunday, June 1
1:30 p.m. EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN
Samuel Goldwyn, 1994, 123 mins. With Sihung Lung, Yang
Kuei-Mei, Wu Chien-Lien. A widower who is also a renowned
chef attempts to hold his family together by preparing
gourmet meals each night for his three unmarried daughters.
Generation gaps and cultural clashes are at the core
of Lee's Ozu-like study of a modern Taiwanese family.
4:00 p.m. SENSE
AND SENSIBILITY
Columbia, 1995, 135 mins. With Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet,
Hugh Grant. Thompson won an Oscar as screenwriter for
her adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about two newly
impoverished and romantically unfortunate sisters. Lee
drew from childhood memories of socially claustrophobic
1950s Taiwan for his understanding of the workings of
eighteenth-century British aristocracy.
Saturday, June 7
2:00 p.m.
A PINEWOOD DIALOGUE with Ang Lee
and James Schamus: CROUCHING
TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON
Sony Pictures Classics, 2000, 120 mins. With Chow Yun-Fat,
Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Yiyi. Lee's masterful blend of
romance, period drama, epic storytelling, and dazzling
Hong Kong-style action sequences made Crouching Tiger
a crossover smash hit, the most successful foreign-language
film ever. Preceded by: CHOSEN BMW 2001, 7 mins. With
Clive Owen. Lee brings his choreographic skills to a
mysterious car chase. After the screening, Lee and Schamus
will discuss their collaboration.$18 public/$12 AMMI
members. Call 718-784-4520 to order tickets. (no discount
for ACV members)
Sunday, June 8
1:30 p.m. THE ICE STORM
Fox Searchlight, 1997, 113 mins. With Kevin Kline, Joan
Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci.
With heartrending emotional accuracy, Lee reveals the
psychic turbulence beneath the quiet surfaces of an
afluent Connecticut suburb in the early 1970s. His visual
poetry matches the exemplary work of the ensemble cast.
4:00 p.m. RIDE
WITH THE DEVIL
Universal, 1999, 138 mins. With Skeet Ulrich, Tobey
Maguire, Jewel. This intricate and underrated Civil
War drama follows a disparate group of Confederate guerillas,
and contrasts the languid lives of the Southern privileged
class with the chaos of war. As a pregnant widow who
harbors the group, Jewel is another of Lee's strong
female characters.
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MAY
12, 20, 27
Asian CineVision invites Friends of ACV members to
a special advance screening of
TOGETHER
A
film by Chen Kaige (China 2003)
Monday, May 12 at 8:30 pm
Tuesday, May 20 at 6:00 pm
Tuesday, May 27 at 3:30 pm
MGM Screening Room
1350 Ave. of the Americas at 55th St., lobby level
 A
stirring new drama about the power of music, TOGETHER
tells the story of Xiaochun, a talented young violinist
from a provincial town who ventures to Beijing to further
his opportunities, but who soon discovers that life
in the brutally competitive world of classical music
may not be for him. With his widowed father (LIU Peiqi)
protectively by his side, the shy teen (TANG Yun, a
real-life violin prodigy) encounters in Bejing a world
unlike one he has ever known. After being rejected by
a famed musical school due to bureaucratic snafus, he
comes under the tutelage of two vastly different teachersÐone,
a reclusive but talented professor (WANG Zhiwen,) guides
his gifted pupil toward a deeper understanding of how
to play with feeling; the other, a savvy autocratic
mentor famous for forging young talents into musicians
of international renown, is played by CHEN Kaige himself.
While pursuing his studies, Xioachun also experiences
his first love, focusing his attentions on his hip,
older, gold-digging neighbor, Lili, (a hilarious turn
by Chen Kaige1s real-life actress-wife, CHEN Hong.)
**FREE INVITATION FOR FRIENDS
OF ACV MEMBERS**
SEATING IS EXTREMELY
LIMITED. RSVP REQUIRED: specialevents@asiancinevision.org;
ph 212.989.1422
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FRIDAY/SATURDAY
MAY 9 ,10
Asian CineVision co-sponsors
THE
EYE [JIAN GUI] at
the Tribeca Film Festival
A
film by the Pang Brothers, Thailand, 2002, 100 min.
Friday, May 9 at midnight; Saturday, May 10 at 11pm
United Artists Battery Park Theaters
102 North End Avenue (at Vesey Street)
 The
Pang Brothers' (Bangkok Dangerous) first foray
into horror is stylishly chilling and genuinely creepy.
Mann has been blind since she was 2 years old, but a
corneal transplant at age 18 restores her vision and
makes her see life in a whole new light. What she sees,
however, is so shocking that it shakes her confidence
in reality and leads her on a voyage to find the mystery
in the shadowy figures that appear to her.
New York Premiere
ticket code: [EYEXX]
$10 general admission
$8 downtown residents (south of Canal Street; with valid
zip code)
$7 students and seniors (valid ID required)
To purchase tickets, visit www.tribecafilmfestival.org
or call 1-866-941-FEST (3378).
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MONDAY,
MAY 5
Asian CineVision and The New York
Times Community Affairs Dept present
ONE ON
ONE WITH DIRECTOR CHEN KAIGE
and Sheryl WuDunn, New York Times anchor for Page One
on the Discovery Times Channel
Monday, May 5th at 7:30PM
The Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
70 Lincoln Center Plaza, Tenth Floor
 One
of the most accomplished and acclaimed filmmakers in
contemporary China and in the international cinematic
landscape, Chen Kaige, director of Farewell My Concubine,
The Emperor and the Assassin and the upcoming
Together (in which he also acts and co-writes)
will engage in an informal talk on his career and life
as a director, actor, writer, producer with Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist, Sheryl Wu Dunn. Light reception
precedes.
ADVANCE SALES ONLY
$10 ACV/Asia Society/AIVF/Film Society members
$12 non-members
To purchase tickets, download the order form here,
or contact us at 212.989.1422; specialevents@asiancinevision.org.
All major credit cards, checks accepted.
CO-SPONSORS: Asia Society | AIVF | Film Society of Lincoln
Center
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MAY
2
Asian CineVision co-sponsors
A Special Screening of
BOLLYWOOD,
HOLLYWOOD
A film by Deepa Mehta/2002/103 min.
Friday, May 2 at 7:00 p.m.
Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Avenue at 70th Street, New York City
 What
happens when two cinematic genres collide? The latest
film from acclaimed South Asian Canadian director Deepa
Mehta (Fire and Earth) is a light-hearted satirical
comedy of Bollywood culture in the West. When young
Rahul (Rahul Khanna) loses his glamorous Caucasian,
but in the eyes of the Seth family an unsuitable girlfriend,
the search for a "nice Indian girl" takes a surprising
turn. Featuring supermodel Lisa Ray, Moushumi Chatterjee
and veteran actress Dina Pathak, with an exhilarating
original score, Bollywood/Hollywood is a madcap love-song
to both East and West. Director Deepa Metha will attend
the screening. Official selection of the Toronoto International
Film Festival 2002. A Magnolia Pictures release.
Sponsored by the Asia Society, Canadian
Consulate General and Asian CineVision.
$7 Asia Society/Asian CineVision members; $10 nonmembers,
Call 212 517-ASIA for tickets.
Asia Society film programs are supported by Dr. John
C. Weber.
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APRIL
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APRIL
30
ACV and Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and
Institute, NYU present
GANGS,
THIEVES, HONOR STUDENTS.
An informal discussion event on Justin Lin's "Better
Luck Tomorrow"
Wednesday, April 30, 2003
6:00 – 8:00pm
New York University
The Violet Café
45 West 4th Street
 featuring
panelists
Christine Choy, Chair, NYU and filmmaker
Andy Hsiao Editor, The New Press (to confirm)
Mike Kang, filmmaker
Jason King, NYU Recorded Music professor and
Vibe contributor
Risa Morimoto, Executive Director, Asian CineVision
Sriya Shresta NYU student
After making its premiere at the 2002 Sundance Film
Festival, Justin Lin's feature film "Better Luck Tomorrow"
- now distributed by MTV films - opened nationwide on
April 11th. Widely debated for its portrayal of a group
of Asian American honor students from California who
deal drugs and commit murder, the film has sparked a
renewed interest in discussions about Asian American
representation. Join our distinguished panelists as
they comment on the cultural impact of the film, and
what it might suggest for the future of Asian American
filmmaking and identity politics.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Seating is limited. RSVP 212.989.1422/specialevents@asiancinevision.org
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APRIL
18
Asia Society and Asian CineVision Present A Special
Preview Screening
MAROONED IN
IRAQ
A film by Bahman Ghobadi/2002/97 min.
Director Bahman Ghobadi and cast
Friday, April
18 at 7:00 p.m.
Asia Society and Museum,
725 Park Avenue at 70th Street, New York City
 Acclaimed
Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi (A Time For Drunken
Horses) dramatizes the plight of the Kurdish people
in his new feature, set on the Iran-Iraq border in the
early 1990s. Mirza, an aging Iranian-Kurd musician,
and his two adult sons embark on a search for his ex-wife
Hanareh, a singer with a magical voice who deserted
him 23 years earlier to marry his best friend in Iraqi
Kurdistan, and is now in trouble.
In an adventure filled with vibrant music, romance and
danger, Ghobadi uses humor and wit to depict a community,
though dispossessed, celebrating life in the midst of
war. In Kurdish with English subtitles.
Winner - The François-Chalais Prize, Cannes Film
Festival 2002.
Film introduced by Jamsheed Akrami, professor of film,
William Paterson University.
A Wellspring Release. At Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on April
25!
$7 Asia Society/Asian CineVision members; $10 nonmembers,
Call 212 517-ASIA for tickets.
Asia Society film programs are supported by Dr. John
C. Weber.
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APRIL
1
ACV SPONSORS
MTV FILMS SNEAK-PEEK ADVANCE SCREENING OF
BETTER LUCK TOMORROW IN THEATERS
APRIL 11TH — NYC, LA, SF, CHICAGO
Tuesday, April 1st, 7:30PM
UA Union Square, Stadium 14
Broadway at 13th Street, New York City
"Best and most provocative — a funny-sexy-scary-power-
house."- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Magazine
“Extraordinarily accomplished and thought-provoking."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Stylish and very well acted." - David
Ansen, Newsweek
"The hottest, most stylish and smartly twisted
film."
- Duane Bygre, The Hollywood Reporter
BLT is the first Asian American film ever to be picked
up at the Sundance Film Festival and the first film
ever purchased and distributed by MTV Films.
www.betterlucktomorrow.com
This event is co-sponsored by Asian American Arts Alliance,
Asian Americans for Equality, Desipina and Company,
IFP/NY, Coalition for Asian Pacifics in Entertainment/NY.
2G
(Second Generation) is offering a $10 discount for
the Karaoke Show to BLT supporters. The code is ACV
and it enable the user to buy general admission tickets
to The Karaoke Show for $15 (usually $25). For more
info, www.thekshow.com.
SPECIAL APPEARANCE by BLT actor Roger Fan on Thursday,
April 3rd!
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MARCH
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MARCH 21
FIRST 80 PEOPLE TO RESPOND GET
ON THE COMP LIST!
ESSENCE Asian Network
sponsors
OFFICIAL MOVIE RELEASE PARTY FOR
Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai’s
FULLTIME KILLER
Starring Andy Lau and Takashi Sorimachi
Opening Night
Friday, March 21, 2003
El Flamingo
547 West 21st Street (b/w 10th Ave & West Street)
OPEN BAR from 10pm-11pm
EMAIL: specialevents@asiancinevision.org
with your name and number of people in your party.
You do not need to be an ACV member in order to reply
or gain access to this opening night party.
MARCH 21
LIMITED FREE TICKETS FOR FILM & OPENING PARTY
FOR ACV MEMBERS!
ANDY LAU reteams with directors JOHNNIE TO (THE MISSION)
and WAI KA FAI
 FULLTIME
KILLER
SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS START 3/21/03
NEW YORK: Cinema Village, 22 East 12th Street
LOS ANGELES: Laemmle Fairfax Cinemas, 7907 Beverly Boulevard
Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau reteams with directors
Johnnie To (THE MISSION) and Wai Ka Fai for a spectacular
no holds barred cinematic extravaganza.
Lau plays Tok, a flamboyant new assassin who sets out
to become the #1 Killer by taking down O (Takashi Soromachi),
a disciplined and isolated killer. Unexpectedly they
become involved with the same woman. Staged with one
brilliant set piece after another and referencing some
of the great American and Hong Kong action films of
the last several years, FULLTIME KILLER is a dazzling
confirmation that Hong Kong cinema is alive and well.
See the trailer, play the game, and enter the official
contest @ www.fulltimekiller.com
FOR ACV FREE TICKET/OPENING PARTY PROMOTION: CALL 212.989.1422
OR EMAIL specialevents@asiancinevision.org WITH YOUR
NAME, FRIENDS OF ACV NO., AND ADDRESS. Limited no. of
tickets is available on a first come, first basis. Not
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MARCH
7
LIMITED FREE TICKETS FOR ACV MEMBERS!
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF ‘RING’ AND ‘DARK
WATER’
CHAOS
A Film by Hideo Nakata
Opens FRIDAY, MARCH 7TH at the Cinema Village in
New York
 The
handyman, Kuroda (Masato Hagiwara), is approached by
a beautiful young woman who asks him to help her stage
her own kidnapping and demand a ransom from her husband.
This, to know if he is unfaithful. On the day of the
fake abduction, Saori (Miki Nakatani) comes to Kuroda's
apartment. After finding her hideout location, he ties
her up and begins to make demands. Their relation quickly
evolves into a dark and tantalizing game of bondage
and masochism. Later that night, Masada comes to check
on her and finds her dead body. The killer calls him
on the phone and asks him to dump the body...
More about CHAOS:
http://www.kino.com/chaos/
FOR ACV FREE TICKET PROMOTION: CALL 212.989.1422 OR
EMAIL specialevents@asiancinevision.org
WITH YOUR NAME, FRIENDS OF ACV NO., AND ADDRESS. Limited
no. of tickets is available on a first come, first basis.
Not sure if you are a member? Give us a call!
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FEBRUARY
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FEBRUARY
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ACV CO-SPONSORS
NEW YORK PREMIERE of a NEW FILM ON NORTH KOREA
THE GAME OF THEIR LIVES
87 Minutes, VeryMuchSo Productions,
2002
6:15 PM
NYU Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Randolph Summerville Theatre (room 703)
(entrance on Washington Place just off east side of
Washington Square Park)
Free admission but seating
is limited:
**RSVP by Tuesday, February 25
(212) 992-9653, apa.rsvp@nyu.edu
Picture ID required for entrance to building
A presentation of
NODUTDOL for Korean Community Development
in conjunction with
NYU Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program & Institute
Game of Their Lives starts with a soccer game - not just
any soccer game, but the 1966 World Cup, when sports fans
and governments alike were given "The Greatest Shock
in World Cup History". That year, a scrappy underdog
team of North Koreans defeated Italy, and won the hearts
of a British town in the process. Their reaching the quarterfinals
- the first Asian team to ever do so, was controversial
in every way. Using recent interviews with the players
in North Korea and Italy, sports journalists and fans,
along with fascinating archival soccer footage, The Game
of Their Lives interweaves the excitement of pure, ruthless
soccer, political drama, and the unexpected "adoption"
of the North Korean team by the British town of Middlesbrough,
into a tale that is much more than a sports story - it
is a rare and very human look at the North Korean nation
and its people.
Other co-sponsors include:
Asian CineVision / Center for Korean Research, Columbia
University / Congress for Korean Reunification (NY) /
Corean Action Network for Democracy and Unification (NY)/
Hunter College Asian American Studies / Korean American
National Coordinating Council (NY) / Korean Soccer Association
of New York NISPOP (Network in Solidarity with the People
of the Philippines)/ Korea Society / Philippine Forum/
Paper Tiger / Third World Newsreel. |
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FREE WORKSHOP
February 28
to March 21
Asian American Cinema Workshop:
The Moving Images of the Asian-American
Conducted by Daryl Chin
Right now, the academicization, politicization, and
commercialization of all critical endeavors have decimated
any and all attempts to think clearly about media representation.
This has brought about a crisis in terms of representation,
as questions of appropriateness, authenticity, and correctness
have come to the fore. In a series of four lectures,
Daryl Chin will examine some of the issues relating
to the representation of Asian identity in American
media. This lecture series is presented, not as a polemic
or as a political statement, but as a critical assessment
which is intended to provide perspectives and alternatives
rather than definitive answers to issues of representation
and identity.
Class Schedule:
Fridays, 4 PM to 6 PM
@ 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor
Between 5th & 6th Avenue, Manhattan
Free (Enrollment Limited To Twenty Students)
Click
HERE to register
Click
here to view Sample Streaming Video of Cinema Workshop
Lecture One (2/28/03) - will focus on the silent
period; a particular focus will be on the careers of
two notable Asian-American performers, Sessue Hayakawa
and Anna May Wong. Hayakawa's example is especially
topical, because he would use his prestige and power
as a movie star to create his own production company,
where he hoped to create movies which would portray
the Asian experience in a more truthful light.
Lecture Two (3/7/03) - will focus on the presentation
of Asia in the American movies during the 1930s; the
interest in using Asian countries as an exotic locale
for adventure and romance reached its height in 1936-37,
when just about very major studio in Hollywood produced
a big-budget drama with an Asian setting, such as MGM
(The Good Earth), Warner Brothers (Oil for the Lamps
of China), Paramount (The General Died at Dawn), Columbia
(Lost Horizon), and 20th Century Fox (Stowaway).
Lecture Three (3/14/03) - will focus on the problems
inherent in presenting Asian conflicts in terms of American
media. This has been the case since World War II, and
the lecture will deal with the shifts, distortions,
and attempted revisionism in terms of World War II,
the Korean War, and the Indochina conflict which evolved
into the Vietnam War.
Lecture Four (3/21/03)- will deal with contemporary
Asian-American media since the 1960s, the difficulties
and the successes in terms of Asian-American access
to the media. This lecture will focus on Asian-Americans
and independent media, rather than attempt to promote
further consideration of commercial representations.
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A
groundbreaking documentary about soldiers in the U.S.
Army's 1st and 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiments. "An
Untold Triumph" uncovers the stories of 30 surviving
Filipino American veterans, now in their mid-to-late-seventies.
Based on interviews, archives and other research, the
documentary was produced for PBS by filmmakers Stephanie
Castillo of Honolulu and Noel "Sonny" Izon
of Washington, D.C. Narrated by actor Lou Diamond Phillips.
