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Asian Cinema
WORLD CINEMA
Lee Chang-dong
POETRY
Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the
Cannes Film Festival, POETRY is an “achingly exquisite portrait” (Philadelphia Inquirer) of a woman’s brave fight against Alzheimer’s, and her guilt over a relative’s brutal
crime. POETRY is a “nearly perfect movie”
(Boston Globe) about the power of art to bear
witness to sublime beauty and the violent
truths hidden in the hearts of men.
South Korea. 2010. 139 minutes. Color. Korean w/English subtitles.
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“...LUXURIANT, VISUALLY SEDUCTIVE...
It casts a rich, delicate spell.” - The New York Times
Tran Anh Hung
THE SCENT OF
GREEN PAPAYA
In 1950’s Saigon, a little girl becomes a
house servant for a troubled but affluent
Vietnamese family. There she discovers
beauty in the landscape around her and
receives affection from the household matriarch. As she comes of age, her childhood
admiration for a handsome pianist becomes
a complex relationship.
Vietnam/France. 1993. 104 min. Color. Vietnamese w/ English subtitles.
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JIA ZHANGKE
“ESSENTIAL VIEWING...Mr. Jia takes the pulse
of China.” - The New York Times
Anahatan
Josef von Sternberg
ANATAHAN
Inspired by an actual event during
WWII, Josef von Sternberg’s ANATAHAN, tells the story of a dozen
Japanese sailors stranded on the remote
island of Anatahan during the waning
days of the war. The war ends, unbeknownst to the men, and they engage
in their own private war for dominance
of their island domain and possession of
the sole woman in their midst, Keiko
(Akemi Negishi), the so-called “Queen
Bee” of Anatahan. This new 2K restoration of the uncensored 1958 version was Sternberg’s preferred cut of the film.
Loaded with extras.
USA/Japan. 1958. 91 min. English.
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“BEAUTIFULLY SHOT AND ACTED.” - The New York Times
Naomi Kawase
MOUNTAINS
MAY DEPART
SWEET BEAN
A lonely baker has his life (and business) reinvigorated when he hires an elderly woman
with an uncanny culinary skill and a mysterious communion with nature, in this graceful, quietly moving drama from Japan’s
Naomi Kawase.
Mainland master Jia Zhangke (A Touch of Sin)
scales new heights with MOUNTAINS MAY
DEPART. A decades-spanning epic that leaps
from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia’s new film is an intimate
and intensely moving study of how China’s economic boom and the culture of materialism has
affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.
France/Germany/Japan. 2015. Color.
113 min. Japanese w English subtitles.
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China. 2015. 131 min. Color. Cantonese, Mandarin, English, w English subtitles.
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“A blistering fictionalized tale straight out of China,
‘A Touch of Sin’ is at once monumental and human scale.”
- Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
A TOUCH OF SIN
A “brilliant exploration of violence and corruption in contemporary China” (The Atlantic), A
TOUCH OF SIN was inspired by four shocking
real-life events as four characters, each living in
different provinces, are driven to violent ends.
China. 2013. Mandarin & Cantonese w/ English
subtitles. 133 min. Color.
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“A masterclass in THROAT-SQUEEZING,
STOMACH-KNOTTING SUSPENSE.”
- The Hollywood Reporter
Seong-hoon Kim
A HARD DAY
A breakout hit from the 2014 Cannes Film
Festival, homicide detective Gunsoo is having
a hard day: in less than 24 hours he receives a
divorce notice, his mother dies, and becomes
the focus of a police investigation.
South Korea. 2014. 111 min.
Korean with English subtitles.
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