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Director:
Sylvia Chang
Taiwan/Hong Kong 2004 | 113mins
SAT 03.12 | 145PM Kabuki | TWEN12 | RUSH ONLY
TUE 03.15 | 700PM Kabuki | TWEN15 | Purchase Tickets>>
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| The stories of three independent women seeking companionship in Taipei are elegantly woven together in this exuberant romantic comedy, done with the moxie of SEX AND THE CITY and the tender poignancy of Edward Yang or Ang Lee. More info>> |
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BAYTONG
Director: Nonzee Nimibutr
Thailand 2003 | 103mins
SUN 03.13 | 300PM Castro | BAYT13 | Purchase Tickets>>
SAT 03.19 | 530PM Camera | BAYT19 | Purchase Tickets>>
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| Ancient values and modern life collide in this unpredictable, comic drama from the director of NANG NAK and JAN DARA. After his sister is killed in a terrorist attack, a young Buddhist monk leaves the monastery to care for his niece. More info>> |
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BUTTERFLY (HUDIE)
Director: Yan Yan Mak
Hong Kong 2004 | 124mins
SUN 03.13 | 1200PM Castro | BUTR13 | Purchase Tickets>>
TUE 03.15 | 900PM Kabuki | BUTR15 | RUSH ONLY
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| Set both in contemporary Hong Kong and during the late '80's student democracy movement, this tenderly erotic film tells the story of Flavia, a wife and mother, whose middle-class existence is threatened when she falls in love with another woman. More info>> |
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CUTIE HONEY
Director: Hideaki Anno
Japan 2004 | 93mins
SAT 03.12 | 945PM PFA | CUTI12 | Purchase Tickets>>
SUN 03.13 | 915PM Castro | CUTI13 | Purchase Tickets>>
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| This live-action adaptation of a borderline exploitation anime from the seventies is a giddy extravaganza involving a titillatingly costumed crime-fighting superheroine who takes on a host of colorful villains. From the director of NEON GENESIS EVANGELION. More info>> |
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DUMPLINGS (GAUDZI)
Director: Fruit Chan
Hong Kong 2004 | 91mins
SAT 03.12 | 945PM Castro | DUMP12 | Purchase Tickets>>
SUN 03.13 | 810PM PFA | DUMP13 | RUSH ONLY
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| Deliciously wicked, DUMPLINGS is a squirm-inducing, scabrously black-humored voyage through the nightmarish perils of vanity. A nearing-forty woman seeks a former abortion doctor’s “special dumplings” for their youth-renewing powers, only to discover their appalling secret ingredient. More info>> |
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EVOLUTION OF A FILIPINO FAMILY (EBOLUSYON NG SANG PAMILYANG PILIPINO)
Director: Lav Diaz
Philippines 2004 | 630mins
SAT 03.19 | 1230PM PFA | EVOL19 | Purchase Tickets>>
SUN 03.20 | 1230PM PFA | EVOL20 | Cancelled |
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| Filmed over an eight-year period, this extraordinary ten-and-a-half-hour epic examines fifteen years of life under the Marcos regime, as experienced by one family. “One of the most ambitious films you’ll see this year,” Toronto International Film Festival. More info>> |
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A FOND KISS (AE FOND KISS)
Director: Ken Loach
UK/Italy/Germany/Spain 2004 | 90mins
SUN 03.13 | 345PM PFA | FOND13 | Purchase Tickets>>
WED 03.16 | 700PM Kabuki | FOND16 | Purchase Tickets>>
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| A passionate romance between a Pakistani Scottish man and a white woman buckles under the pressure applied from all sides. An uncompromising look at interracial, cross-cultural love from politically committed director Ken Loach. More info>> |
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THE GREEN HAT (LU MAOZI)
Director: Liu Fendou
China 2003 | 98mins
FRI 03.11 | 700PM Castro | GREE11 | Purchase Tickets>>
SUN 03.20 | 500PM Camera | GREE20 | RUSH ONLY
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| One of the most audacious and sexually frank films to emerge from China, THE GREEN HAT is a striking tragicomedy of two men whose lives are intertwined in a crisis of manhood, betrayal and sex. Winner, Grand Prize, 2004 Tribeca Film Festival. More info>> |
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HANA & ALICE (HANA TO ARISU)
Director: Shunji Iwai
Japan 2004 | 135mins
MON 03.14 | 645PM Kabuki | HANA14 | Purchase Tickets>>
WED 03.16 | 915PM Kabuki | HANA16 | Purchase Tickets>> |
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| Three teenagers in a love triangle sort through their slightly confused dreams and memories while fumbling along on a whimsical road to adulthood in this delicately observed, enchanting ode to adolescence from Shunj Iwai. More info>> |
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KEKA
Director: Quark Henares
Philippines 2003 | 93mins
FRI 03.11 | 915PM PFA | KEKA11 | Purchase Tickets>>
TUE 03.15 | 945PM Kabuki | KEKA15 | Purchase Tickets>>
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| A black comedy about a serial killer who avenges the murder of her boyfriend. Keka is the modern day multi-tasker who works at a call-center, goes on dates, hangs out with friends and kills, kills, kills. More info>> |
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OLDBOY (OLDEUBOI)
Director: Park Chan-wook
South Korea 2003 | 118mins
FRI 03.11 | 930PM Kabuki | OLDB11 | RUSH ONLY
SAT 03.12 | 700PM PFA | OLDB12 | RUSH ONLY
SUN 03.20 | 930PM Camera | OLDB20 | RUSH ONLY |
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| Abducted and imprisoned for fifteen years for no apparent reason, a man sets out to unleash his vengeance on an unseen captor. Winner of Cannes’ Grand Prize, this incendiary revenge tale explodes in the most devastating finale in recent memory. More info>> |
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OUT OF THIS WORLD (KONOYO NO SOTOE: KURABU SHINCHUGUN)
Director: Junji Sakamoto
Japan 2004 | 118mins
SUN 03.13 | 930PM Kabuki | OUTO13 | Purchase Tickets>>
WED 03.16 | 630PM Kabuki | OUTO16 | Purchase Tickets>>
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| In 1947 Tokyo, five young musicians turn to jazz—banned as enemy music during the war—and perform at American military clubs. An assortment of lively characters populates this meticulously recreated portrait of postwar Japan, from the director of FACE. More info>> |
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SCHIZO (SHIZA)
Director: Guka Omarova
Kazakhstan/Russia 2004 | 86mins
MON 03.14 | 715PM Kabuki | SCHI14 | Purchase Tickets>>
SUN 03.20 | 400PM Kabuki | SCHI20 | Purchase Tickets>>
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| A slack-jawed teenager and his scrawny drunken uncle fight the assorted mafiosos of Central Asia—including the boy’s mother’s macho lover—in this distinctive work from the ghostly landscapes of Kazakhstan. Directed by actress and scriptwriter (SISTERS) Guka Omarova. More info>> |
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SWADES
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
India 2004 | 195mins
FRI 03.11 | 930PM Castro | SWAD11 | Purchase Tickets>> |
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| The director of LAGAAN teams with superstar Shah Rukh Khan for this moving tale of a successful NASA scientist who returns to India. What was a simple mission prompted by nostalgia and affection turns into a journey into the heartland of rural India. More info>> |
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TURTLES CAN FLY (LAKPOSHTHA HAM PARVAZ MIKONAND)
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Iraq/Iran 2004 | 96mins
SUN 03.13 | 600PM PFA | TURT13 | RUSH ONLY
TUE 03.15 | 630PM Kabuki | TURT15 | RUSH ONLY
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| “One of the greatest anti-war films of all time” is how IFC Films describes Ghobadi’s (A TIME FOR DRUNKEN HORSES) new film. In Iraq’s Kurdish north, “Kak Satellite” fixes satellite antennas in remote villages; he’s also only thirteen, and living through war. More info>> |
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YASMIN
Director: Kenny Glenaan
UK 2004 | 87mins
SAT 03.12 | 715PM Kabuki | YASM12 | RUSH ONLY
MON 03.14 | 915PM Kabuki | YASM14 | Purchase Tickets>> |
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| At home in a North England town, Yasmin is the good daughter, even marrying a goatherder from Pakistan to please her traditional father. Outside her life is totally western, but the reverberations of 9/11 shake the foundations of Britishness she took for granted. More info>> |
