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ELINOR BUNIN MUNROE FILM CENTER 144 W 65th St. | WALTER ReADE THEATER 165 W 65th St. | New York, NY 10023 | filmlinc.com JULY/AUGUST 2014 THIS IS SOFTCORE: THE ART CINEMA EROTICA OF RADLEY METZGER Carmen, Baby New York Asian Film Festival Jun 27 — Jul 10 | Latinbeat Jul 11 — 20 | NewFest Jul 24— 29 Sound + Vision Jul 31 — Aug 6 | The Art Cinema Erotica of Radley Metzger Aug 7 — 13 | The Films of Joaquim Pinto Aug 8 — 12 Red Hollywood and the Blacklist Aug 15 — 21 | Strange Lands: International Sci-Fi Aug 22 — 28 | The Films of Lav Diaz Aug 24 Film Comment Double Feature Jul 22, Aug 26 | Freaky Fridays Fridays at 11pm JULY 2014 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Follow us on 1 2 3 4 5 4:00 Golden Chickensss 2:30 Blind Massage 3:30 Rough Play 2:00 Double Feature: Mr. 1:00 Zone Pro Site: The 6:30 Rough Play 5:00 May We Chat 6:00 Fuku-chan of FukuFuku Vampire + Rigor Mortis Moveable Feast 9:15 No Man’s Land 7:15 R100 Flats 6:00 From Vegas to Macao 4:00 The Terror Live 9:30 Moebius 8:30 The Eternal Zero 8:00 Killers on Wheels 6:15 The One-Armed 10:00 The Legend of the 7 Swordsman Schedule subject to change. Visit filmlinc.com for updates. Golden Vampires 9:15 Soul Life Itself OPENS 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1:00 Monsterz 2:00 Public Enemy 1:00 The Terror Live 1:00 Soul 1:00 Cold Eyes 6:15 Casa Grande 1:30 Root 3:30 The Chinese Boxer 5:15 The Face Reader 3:30 Il Mare 3:30 Miss Zombie 3:30 Aberdeen 9:15 Natural Sciences 4:00 Dust on the Tongue 6:00 New World 8:45 Cold Eyes 6:00 Hope 6:00 My Man 5:40 Control 11:00 Freaky Fridays: 6:30 Cristo Rey 9:15 Silent Witness 9:00 Au revoir l'été 9:15 Firestorm 3D 8:15 Aim High in Creation! Squirm 9:00 We Are Mari Pepa 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1:30 Mateo 4:00 The Summer of Flying Fish 4:30 Holiday 6:15 Holiday 3:30 My Straight Son 4:00 The Militant 1:00 New Voices in Latin 4:00 Cristo Rey 6:20 Natural Sciences 6:30 Mateo 8:30 Root 6:30 All About the Feathers 6:45 Reimon American Cinema 6:30 The Summer of 8:30 Casa Grande 8:30 We Are Mari Pepa 8:45 The Militant 9:00 Paradise Free Panel! Flying Fish 11:00 Freaky Fridays: 1:00 The Man of the Crowd 8:40 Dust on the Tongue American Psycho 3:30 All About the Feathers 6:00 The Searches 8:30 My Straight Son 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 1:00 The Searches Visit filmlinc.com 6:15 Film Comment Double Visit filmlinc.com 11:00 Freaky Fridays: 3:30 Paradise for more information Feature: Diary of a Mad for more information Pumpkinhead Housewife + Portnoy's 6:15 The Man of the Crowd The Kill Team OPENS 8:30 Reimon Complaint NEWFEST: NEW YORK'S PREMIER LGBT FILM FESTIVAL For films and schedule, visit filmlinc.com 27 28 29 30 31 Visit filmlinc.com 7:00 Beautiful Noise VISIT FILMLINC.COM FOR TICKETS, for more information 9:15 For Those About to Rock: The Story of Rodrigo y VENUES, AND UPDATES Gabriela IN-PERSON APPEARANCES NEWFEST: NEW YORK'S PREMIER LGBT FILM FESTIVAL For films and schedule, visit filmlinc.com JUNE 27 — JULY 10 NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL It's unlucky number 13! That's right, this year is the 13th10 New York Asian Film Festival and that means that melodrama pot in 2000 and out came Il Mare, which has since No Man’s Land Ning Hao, China, 2009, DCP, 115m you’re going to walk under a ladder, trip over a black cat, break a mirror, and wind up getting squashed by a been cemented in the canon of Korean romances. July 8 A smug legal grandstander must drive across China falling piano the second you step outside. The only way to stay safe is to double down and spend your sum- ASAP in this blackly comedic road movie and savvy mer inside a movie theater watching eyeball-exploding Asian films. Killers on Wheels (aka Madboys in Hong Kong) Kuei indictment of capitalism that was shelved for four Chih-hung, Hong Kong, 1976, 35mm, 95m What starts years after running afoul of Chinese censors. North Control Kenneth Bi, Hong Kong/China/Taiwan, 2013, out as a teen beach movie becomes a bloody take on American Premiere July 1 DCP, 92m This futuristic thriller follows an insurance the biker flick when a series of pranks between some salesman coerced to commit criminal acts by an unseen spoiled rich kids and a rowdy bunch of road rebels esca- The One-Armed Swordsman Chang Cheh, Hong villain, who sends instructions over the phone and has lates out of control. July 4 Kong, 1967, Digibeta, 111m The One-Armed Swords- control of the city’s surveillance cameras. July 10 man burst onto the scene in 1967 as riots swept the The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires Roy Ward streets of Hong Kong and bombings pushed the city The Eternal Zero Takashi Yamazaki, Japan, 2013, HD- Baker, UK/Hong Kong, 1974, 35mm, 83m Shaw Broth- over the brink into chaos, channeling the people’s CAM, 144m The most extreme film experience of NYAFF ers teamed with Hammer Studios, England’s House of anger and fury on screen. July 5 follows the quest of a young man investigating the life Horror, on this kung-fu vampire movie starring Peter of his late grandfather, a reluctant kamikaze pilot, during Cushing as Van Helsing and David Chiang as his Chinese Public Enemy Kang Woo-suk, South Korea, the Pacific War. U.S. Premiere July 3 counterpart. July 4 2002, 135m When a remorseless killer slashes an archetypal bad cop in an alleyway, it kicks off a Aberdeen Pang Ho-cheung, Hong Kong, 2014, DCP, The Face Reader Han Jae-rim, South Korea, 2013, May We Chat Philip Yung, Hong Kong, 2013, DCP, relentless pursuit complete with graphic violence, 98m This ensemble family melodrama about expecta- DCP, 139m The film that beat Iron Man 3 at the Korean 100m Two teenagers come together to find their miss- vulgar comedy, and a healthy dose of Korean social tions of beauty and marital betrayal features Pang’s box office last year is a lavish period drama with high- ing friend, a rich girl with a thing for bad boys, with the satire. July 7 (Isabella) signature complex performances and magic- level cast at the top of its game, juicy dialogue, and a help of their smartphones in this teen drama turned realist touch. July 10 smooth mixture of low comedy and high drama. July 7 gangland noir. North American Premiere July 2 R100 Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japan, 2013, DCP, 98m Hitoshi Matsumoto is Japan’s most famous come- Aim High in Creation! Anna Broinowski, Austra- Firestorm 3D Alan Yuen, Hong Kong/China/Malaysia, Miss Zombie Sabu, Japan, 2013, HDCAM, 85m A rich dian, but even if you’ve seen Big Man Japan and Sym- lia, 2013, DCP, 97m This revolutionary comedy has a 2013, 3-D DCP, 109m Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau family man receives a crate containing a mail-order bol you’ll barely be prepared for the S&M antics of groundbreaking experiment at its heart: a propaganda plays a prissy police detective who’s getting his butt zombie maid, an instruction manual, a cautionary note this straight-faced send-up of genre cinema. July 2 film, made according to the rules of Kim Jong-il's handed to him by an insanely competent career criminal against letting her eat meat, and a gun (just in case) in 1987 Manifesto “The Cinema and Directing.” U.S. who knocks over armored cars like dominos. New York this razor-sharp social satire. New York Premiere July 9 Rough Play Shin Yeon-shick, South Korea, 2013, Premiere July 10 Premiere July 9 DCP, 98m A crazed actor takes his dedication to his Moebius Kim Ki-duk, South Korea, 2013, DCP, 90m A craft too far when he threatens an actress, leading As the Light Goes Out Derek Kwok, Hong Kong/China, From Vegas to Macau Wong Jing, Hong Kong/China, playfully twisted black comedy with no dialogue, Moebius to a dramatic downfall fueled by narcissism and a 2014, DCP, 116m A squad of firefighters who used to be 2014, DCP, 93m Oozing so much debonair that he is an everyday tale of penectomy, rape, sadomasochistic rampant ego. North American Premiere July 1, 3 BFFs but now find themselves wallowing in Man Angst makes Don Draper look drab, Chow Yun-fat fires on sex, and incestuous love from award-winning Korean are brought back together by a power-plant explosion all cylinders as a no-holds-barred gambler who will do filmmaker Kim Ki-duk. New York Premiere July 2 Silent Witness Fei Xing, China, 2013, DCP, 118m in this testosterone- fueled soap opera. North American absolutely anything to entertain an audience. New York When a millionaire’s daughter stands trial for the Premiere June 29 Premiere July 4 Monsterz Hideo Nakata, Japan, 2014, DCP, 111m murder of her future stepmother, layers of previously Japanese horror master Hideo Nakata (Ring and Dark hidden information are revealed that elevate the tale Au revoir l’été Koji Fukada, Japan, 2013, DCP, 125m Fuku-chan of FukuFuku Flats Yosuke Fujita, Japan, Water) returns with this highly original paranormal into one of Chinese myth and personal redemption.
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