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JAPAN CUTS
THE NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE CINEMA
July 12-28, 2012
"North America's premiere showcase for
Japanese film" (Firefox News), JAPAN CUTS is an
inimitable platform for contemporary Japanese cinema, showing the diversity and
vitality of one of the most exciting world cinemas, and ranging from refined,
high-concept art house titles to popular and grindhouse genre movies. In its
sixth consecutive year, JAPAN CUTS 2012 includes close to 40
titles screening from July 12 to 28, with 12 co-presentations with the New York
Asian Film Festival (NYAFF, 11th edition), with which it forms a winning summer
fest combination that shows 100 films annually. As its centerpiece, this
year’s edition of the festival will highlight the career of living Japanese
film legend Koji
Yakusho. Visit the website for information and to purchase tickets!
Thursday,
July 12
6:30 - Asura
8:15 - Smuggler
Friday, July
13
6:30 - Hard Romanticker
8:40 - The Atrocity Exhibition (Let's Make the Teacher… + Big
Gun + Henge)
Saturday,
July 14
1:00 - Scabbard Samurai
3:15 - Tokyo
Playboy Club
5:30 - Gyo
7:15 - Love
Strikes! + Striking Love! JAPAN CUTS Opening Party!*
Sunday, July
15
1:30 - Ace Attorney
4:15 - Tormented
6:00 - Monsters
Club*
8:00 - Chips
Tuesday,
July 17
7:30 - Zombie Ass
Wednesday,
July 18
7:30 - Girls for Keeps
Thursday,
July 19
6:30 - Someday
8:30 - 9 Souls
Friday, July
20
7:00 - The Woodsman and the Rain, Centerpiece
Gala Presentation*
Saturday,
July 21
1:00 - Shall We Dance?
3:30 - Toad's
Oil
6:00 - Chronicle
of My Mother
8:20 - 13
Assassins*
11:00 - Cure
Sunday, July
22
1:00 - Love Strikes!
3:15 - No Man's
Zone*
5:20 - About the
Pink Sky
7:20 - Isn't
Anyone Alive?
9:30 - Roadside
Fugitive
Tuesday,
July 24
7:00 - Rebirth
Wednesday,
July 25
7:00 - Rent-a-Cat*
9:15 - Ushijima
the Loan Shark
Tuesday,
July 26
7:00 - Don't
Stop! + DON'T STOP! JAPAN CUTS Party*
Friday, July
27
7:00 – Leonie*
Saturday,
July 28
1:00 - A Gentle Rain Falls for Fukushima
3:00 - Women on
the Edge
5:00 - Lonely
Swallows
7:00 - The Brat!
9:00 - Space
Battleship Yamato
*Director or actor introduction and/or Q&A!
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I had to do a double-take when I saw the headline yesterday: GEN ART TO CLOSE ITS DOORS AFTER SIXTEEN YEARS. The Gen Art organization, which organizes networking and exhibition events for film, music and fashion in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and several other cities, is closing its doors? After what was an amazingly successful New York festival just two weeks ago?
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From July 15-27, the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival will celebrate its tenth anniversary as the premier showcase of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered cinema in the region. Now the largest such event in the eastern United States, the Festival will present more than 150 features, documentaries, shorts and related events, ranging from gentle comedies for entire families to controversial dramas strictly for mature audiences.The Festival will also bestow three Artist...
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