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Look East Korean Film Festival (LEF) 2012
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 June 2012 19:20
- Written by Joanne Choi
The Look East Korean Film Festival (LEF) will be held Saturday and Sunday June 23-24 2012, at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, CA. This is also the first time in Grauman’s 85-year history, that Korean actors Lee Byung-Hun and Ahn Sung-Ki will place hand and footprints in cement in front of the legendary theater.
Lee, Ahn, and international filmmaker Pierre Rissient will be honored at the opening ceremony. Both events will be taking place on Saturday, June 23. Special guests, celebrities and VIPs are expected to attend.
Also joining this event will be esteemed chef Ludo Lefebvre, preparing a special menu for the celebrity VIP dinner following the opening ceremony. Ludo is named one of the World’s 50 Greatest Chefs by Relais & Chateaux and was nominated by the James Beard Foundation for a Rising Star chef Award.
The screenings scheduled include:
- 3 Iron (Bin Jip)
- A Bittersweet Life (Dar Kom Hahn Inseng) including a Q&A with star Byung-hun Lee
- The Day He Arrives (Book Chon Bahng Yang)
- Flower in Hell (Jiok Hwa) – U.S. premiere
- A Hometown in Heart (Maum Ae Gohyang) – U.S. premiere
- The Host 3D (Gae Mur)
- Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema – including a Q&A with subject/star Pierre Rissient
- Poetry (Shi) including a Q&A with director Chang-dong Lee
- Punch (Wahn D'Ghi)
- Unbowed (Booruh Jin Hwa Sal) including a Q&A with star and Hand and Footprint honoree Sung-ki Ahn
- Thirst (Bahk Ji) including a Q&A with director Chan-wook Park
Tickets to the screenings, Q&A, opening ceremony, VIP dinner, and cocktail party can be purchased at www.LookEastFestival.com, www.ChineseTheatres.com and www.Movietickets.com or by calling 323-431-4111.
For full schedule and more details on this exclusive event visit: www.LookEastFestival.com
Look East Korean Film Festival (LEF) 2012
June 23-24 2012
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre
6925 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA
BAMcinemaFest 2012
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- Published on Tuesday, 19 June 2012 17:50
- Written by Renzo Adler
From June 20 to July 1, 2012, the BAMcinemaFest film festival returns to Brooklyn.
The opening night feature is the New York premiere of comedian Mike Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk With Me, introduced by Birbiglia and co-writer Ira Glass, followed by a BAM-wide party for ticket holders.
This autobiographical film stars Birbiglia as a bartender at a Park Slope comedy club who moves in with his long-term girlfriend (Lauren Ambrose). Struggling with his relationship and his stand-up career, he also battles an extreme form of sleepwalking where he acts out his dreams -- even going so far as to throw himself out of a second story window.
New York Asian Film Fest '12: The Best of the Bizarre
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- Published on Tuesday, 12 June 2012 19:44
- Written by Renzo Adler
The New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF, June 29 – July 15) returns to New York with one of the strangest collection of films yet. Screenings will be held at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street) and the Japan Society (333 East 47th Street).
Each year the NYAFF grows larger and larger, and it’s selection of films more interesting and diverse. Daring new directors, bizarre oddities, and break out hits make up this festival of Asian cinema, with themes ranging from the absurd to the apocalyptic.
Spaghetti Westerns Celebrated at Film Forum in June
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- Published on Friday, 08 June 2012 11:46
- Written by Magdalena Puniewska
Although Americans have undoubtedly invented and perfected the traditional Western genre of movies, therehave been many international adaptations and reconfigurations.
For example, spaghetti westerns were named after being produced by and directed by Italians and have produced a cult-like following, hailed by many fans as “the best genre of films."
The Film Forum (W. Houston) honors this particular variety of films with a three-week Spaghetti Western Film Festival running June 1st to the 21st, 2012, with screenings by the spaghetti film originator, Sergio Leone and his rival Sergio Corbucci, among others.
