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Geez, I really wish to attend it. M has 4 movies screened on proper media (movie theaters, ladies and gentlemen)!
New York Asian Film Festival
June 19 ­ - July 5, 2009
official website: http://www.subwaycinema.com/
official blog/news: http://subwaycinemanews.com/
There are movies from Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore, Indonesia, and of course Hong Kong. The ones I mention here are M's movies only. Screening schedule will be updated.
EXODUS
(2007, Hong Kong, Pang Ho-cheung)
Starring Simon Yam, Annie Liu, Nick Cheung, Maggie Shiu
This taut, tense movie doesn’t waste a minute as it delivers apared-to-the-bone black comedy version of the war between the sexes,thinly disguised as an arthouse film. Simon Yam discovers a secret plotby women to destroy all men. Deadpan and po-faced you’re never quitesure if the director is kidding or not. Given that the director is PangHo-cheung, one of Hong Kong’s fastest rising new talents, and a giftedcomic director, he’s probably kidding, but maybe not. After all, whyare women always going to the bathroom together if they’re not usingthat time to plot against their husbands and lovers?
95 minutes. In Cantonese with English subtitles.
Part of the Hong Kong Film Development Council’s “New Action” program.
EYE IN THE SKY
(2007, Hong Kong, Yau Nai-hoi)
Starring Simon Yam, Kate Tsui, Tony Leung Kar-fai, Maggie Shiu
It’s Simon Yam vs. Tony Leung Kar-fai in this sleek thriller directedby Yau Nai-hoi, a screenwriter with credits for dozens of Johnnie Tomovies under his belt. Simon Yam is the leader of the SU (SurveillanceUnit) playing a lethal game of tag with Tony Leung Kar-fai, and hisgang of hapless jewel thieves who cross paths with a kidnapper. JohnnieTo’s Milkyway Image production company has become the training groundfor many of Hong Kong’s newest behind-the-camera talents, and YauNai-hoi’s slick, assured directorial debut testifies to the fact thatit’s turning out some of the best new filmmakers in the business.
90 minutes. In Cantonese with English subtitles.
Part of the Hong Kong Film Development Council’s “New Action” program.
TACTICAL UNIT: COMRADES IN ARMS
(2008, Hong Kong, Law Wing-cheong)
Starring Simon Yam, Maggie Shiu, Lam Suet
Another film from Milkyway Image, this time directed by LawWing-cheong, Johnnie To’s associate director on movies like FULLTIMEKILLER and PTU. This movie is actually a sequel to PTU, and it tellsthe tale of the same crew of PTU beat cops chasing down armored carhijackers in the Hong Kong mountains, all of them completely out oftheir element in the wilderness of the New Territories. As bad luck,office politics, random coincidences and equipment failures multiply itlooks like these cops are going to be lucky to make it home in onepiece. An ode to the clock punchers who keep us safe, not becausethey’re heroes but because it’s their job.
91 minutes. In Cantonese with English subtitles.
Part of the Hong Kong Film Development Council’s “New Action” program.
THE LONGEST NITE
(1998, Hong Kong, Patrick Yau)
Starring: Lau Ching-wan, Tony Leung, Maggie Shiu
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