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NY Asian Film Festival Part 2
The NY Asian Film Festival for 2013 is over, and my life can return back to some form of normalcy. I’m sad to see it go, but working a festival, and having a life is hard. It’s a damn good thing that the festival itself was a lot of fun and totally worth it. The last two weeks have flown by in a blur, but I’ll try to give you some of the highlights on what happened. I only managed to catch three of my top five films I wanted to see, but I managed to watch several other films that turned out to be amazing.
‘Sharknado’ Was Absolutely Terrible In The Best Way Possible
The only reason I can imagine that you don’t know about The Asylum’s latest opus, Sharknado, would be that you didn’t touch any social media platforms in the past week. If SyFy (I still hate that name switch) had put this much effort into promoting series like Stargate Universe, the show’s ratings would have likely been more than enough to keep it going….not that I’m sore about that or anything. Still, I think the ramped up ridiculous-ness of this “series” of mega-monster films is definitely to thank for its popularity and presence in our collective social consciousness. It’s become not unlike a bad joke that you just keep telling hoping that it will somehow get funny. Mostly, that doesn’t work. With last night’s premiere of Sharknado it absolutely did.
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‘Pacific Rim’ Is Just What The Geek Doctor Ordered
Last night I had the opportunity to attend an early screening of Pacific Rim which releases this Friday, July 12th. I will start by telling you that THIS MOVIE WAS AWESOME.
Leaving this spoiler free won’t be difficult and there’s a great reason why.
If you’ve seen the trailers, you get what the movie is about, Giant Monsters Vs Giant Robots (Kaiju Vs Jaegers in the movie lingo). Now I’m sure we’ve all been burnt before by
Andrew Lau on Young and Dangerous
On July 4th while most of you were celebrating our nation’s birth, there was a theater full of people watching Young and Dangerous 1+2 at the Lincoln Film Center. Seeing Y&D on the big screen with a large crowd was an awesome experience, and probably one of the best I’ve ever had at the NY Asian Film Festival. Most of the audience like me hadn’t seen the movie in years, but it still held up. You could tell that the crowd had forgotten several actors were even in these films by the audible gasps, when Simon Yam, and Anthony Wong appeared on screen. Both of these actors have gone on to have a tremendous body of work, including other films that screened this year at the NYAFF.
After both movies screened, the director Andrew Lau was gracious enough to take time away from his current project Revenge of the Green Dragons, and attend a Q&A (seen in the video below) and, an impromptu signing. Aside from the Young and Dangerous series, Andrew Lau is also known for Storm Riders, and Infernal Affairs, which was later remade here in America as The Departed. If you enjoyed The Departed, you owe it to yourself to check out its superior predecessor Infernal Affairs.
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