LA Film Festival 2010, June 17-27

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

Hi all,

Now in its 16th year, the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival invites you to explore the more than 200 feature films, documentaries, shorts and music videos that will screen in downtown Los Angeles from June 17-27.

1428 (China, Hong Kong)
Dir. Du Haibin
Filmmaker Du Haibin artfully hones in on the aftermath of the great Sichuan earthquake of 2008, capturing the intimate reactions of the survivors and the government's response, both ten days after the tragedy and seven months later. Winner of the documentary award at the Venice Film Festival.

Sun, Jun 20th, 1:45pm & Mon, Jun 21st, 8:00pm, at Regal 13
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2010/filmguide/Title/AA

Café Noir (South Korea)
Dir. Jung Sung-il

Combining classical European literature with leftist politics and sly homages to the past decade of Korean cinema, this sprawling, playful examination of unrequited love is the directorial debut of film critic turned audacious auteur Jung Sung-il.

Sun, Jun 20th, 8pm & Wed, Jun 23rd 8pm, at Regal 12
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2010/filmguide/Title/CC

Golden Slumber (Japan)

Dir. Nakamura Yoshihiro

A comic thriller. Certainly the year’s most heartwarming film about political assassination, serial killers, conspiracy theories, and the Beatles, this non-stop Japanese pop-thriller offers up laughs, tears, and more than a few explosions.

Sun, Jun 20th, 4pm, at Downtown Independent & Sat, Jun 26th, 8pm, at Regal 12
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2010/filmguide/Title/GG

Judge (China)

Dir. Liu Jie

This devastating Chinese drama traces the intertwined lives of a grieving judge, a car thief he's sentenced to death, and a rich man who desperately needs a kidney transplant.

Sat, Jun 19th, 4:30pm & Tue, Jun 22nd, 7:30pm, at Regal 8
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2010/filmguide/Title/JJ

The Red Chapel (Denmark)

Dir. Mads Brugger

Documentary: Two Korean-Danish comedians and their trickster director infiltrate North Korea to expose its horrors in a documentary way stranger than fiction.

Sat, Jun 19th, 7:30pm, at Downtown Independent & Thu, Jun 24th, 7:45pm, at Regal 10
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2010/filmguide/Title/RR

Woman on Fire Looks for Water (Malaysia, South Korea)

Dir. Woo Ming-jin

With a keen eye for the meditative rhythms of life in a small village, this lyrical film follows a father and son as they each yearn for a love that may never come.

Fri, Jun 18th, 8pm, at Regal 12, & Sun, Jun 20th, 1:45pm, at Regal 9
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2010/filmguide/Title/WW

Big in Japan (Japan)

Top Japanese music videos – screened at the Grammy Museum.

Sat, Jun 19th, 7:30pm, & Wed, 23rd, 9:45pm, at Grammy Museum
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2010/filmguide/Title/BB

Climate Refugees (Bangladesh, Chad, China, Kenya, Tuvalu, USA)

“Climate Refugees” is a term few people outside the U.S. military and U.N. circles were familiar with outside the US military and UN circles…until now. As alarming as it is prescient, Michael Nash’s illuminating documentary examines the facts behind the phrase and exposes what is being called the biggest challenge facing mankind.

Fri, Jun 25th, 8:30pm at California Plaza
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2010/filmguide/Title/CC

Jonathan Gold, the Los Angeles-based Pulitzer-prize winning food critic, is well-known for his love of Asian cuisine. He will speak at a screening on 6/19 (4 pm) at the Downtown Independent. The film to be screened is Udon.

Udon (Japan)
Dir. Motohiro Katsuyuki
UDON is a high-spirited comic ode to the power of Japan’s ubiquitous noodle. After failing to make it as a stand-up comedian, a young man drags himself home to Kagawa Prefecture, where his father owns a small udon factory. When an article he writes for a local magazine sets off a nationwide udon craze, he learns there’s more to the simple noodle, and the people who make them, than he ever expected.

Sat, Jun 19th, 4pm, at Downtown Independent
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2010/filmguide/Title/UU

Camera, Camera (USA)

Dir. Malcolm Murray

Documentary. A sharp, subtle critique on the nature of tourism and photography, the enigmatic documentary Camera, Camera follows a handful of diverse Westerners traveling through Laos, paying special attention to the snapshots they take along the way.

Sat, 19th, 4pm, at Regal 11; Mon, Jun 21st, 10:15pm, at Regal 9;
& Wed, Jun 23rd, 5pm, at Regal 13
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2010/filmguide/Title/CC

Parade (Japan)

Dir. Yukisada Isao

The stylish Parade could easily be mistaken, at first glance, for a Japanese sitcom, as it gathers four twenty-somethings together in a small Tokyo apartment….

Tue, Jun 22nd, 7:30pm, at Regal 10 & Wed, Jun 23rd, 10pm, at Regal 9
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2010/filmguide/Title/PP

For more information about the film festival, please go to:
http://www.lafilmfest.com/2010/[Edit by="xjiang on Jun 15, 2:02:50 PM"][/Edit]

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