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Movie Lineup
The Namesake
(USA, 2006),
Running Time:
114 Minutes
While he
respects his
immigrant
parents (Irfan
Khan and Tabu)
and their
decision to rear
him in his
United States
birthplace,
Gogol Ganguli (Kal
Penn) is torn
between Indian
traditions and
the modern
Bostonian
lifestyle.
Jacinda Barrett
and Zuleikha
Robinson also
star in director
Mira Nair's
thought-provoking
coming-of-age
drama, which
explores
first-generation
Americans'
delicate dance
between culture
and identity.
PTU (Hong
Kong, 2003),
Running Time:
80 Minutes
As a member of
the Police
Tactical Unit (PTU),
Sergeant Lo (Lam
Suet) cruises on
his own, beating
and brutalizing
punk kids who
report directly
to a group of
gangland thugs.
Lo's major
problem is that
he's lost his
police-issue
handgun. He
follows all
leads trying to
track it down,
even if it means
betraying his
fellow officers
and making a
deal with the
thugs. A brutal
action film, PTU
is leavened with
moments of
absurd humor.
The Host
(South Korea,
2006),
Running Time:
119 Minutes
Seoul's River
Han is the
watery
birthplace of a
giant mutant
creature bent on
the city's total
destruction. Hie-bong
(Hie-bong Byeon)
is a humble
snack bar owner
whose precious
granddaughter
Hyun-seo
(Ah-sung Ko) is
scooped up by
the scaly
lizard,
presumably as an
appetizer before
the beast
devours all of
Seoul. Can the
mild-mannered
concession
peddler, his dim
son and slacker
grandson band
together and
save both child
and city?
Rashomon
(Japan, 1950),
Running Time:
88 Minutes
Considered one
of Japanese
director Akira
Kurosawa's
masterpieces,
this
Oscar-winning
crime drama
unfolds as four
witnesses to a
rape and murder
report their
versions of the
attack. But the
chain of events
depicted by the
bandit (Toshiro
Mifune), the
rape victim (Machiko
Kyo), the
murdered man's
ghost (Masayuki
Mori) and the
woodcutter
(Takashi
Shimura) are not
only different,
they're
incompatible in
Kurosawa's
examination of
the nature of
truth.
Life is full of
funny surprises
and Canto-pop
singer GiGi
Leung and
J-superstar
Kaneshiro
Takeshi are
about to find
out just how
wonderful this
can be in
Turn Left Turn
Right!
Co-directed by
Johnny To and
Wai Ka Fai, dive
into this fairy
tale like story
that was based
on bestseller
novelist/artist
Jimmy Liao's
novel of the
same name.
Gigi Leung plays
Eve Choi a
professional
translator who
is tired of
translating only
cheap
literature,
while Kaneshiro
Takeshi plays
John Liu a
passionate
violinist who
never seems to
find an audience
that truly
respects his
music.
The two
characters of
the tale happen
to live not only
in the same town
and on the same
street but also
in the same
building divided
only by their
private four
walls. Yet, they
never directly
meet because one
of them always
turns left,
while the other
always turns
right.
Everything seems
to take a
miraculous turn
after their
first encounter
in a park. But
as luck (or bad
luck) would have
it, an afternoon
shower cuts
their rendezvous
short and their
phone numbers
that they
exchanged are no
longer readable.
Will the two
ever meet again?
Find out in this
romance that is
bound to tug on
a few
heartstrings and
warm even more
hearts.
