[KineJapan] Asano I & II, Shoplifters at New York Film Festival

[William C. Thompson]

Kinejapan,

The 56th New York Film Festival feature films were announced a couple of
days ago.  Two Japanese films were included, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's *Asano I &
II *and Hirokazu Kore-eda's
*Shoplifters.*  Both directors are festival favorites: Hamaguchi's *Happy
Hour *was a New Directors/New Films selection a couple of years ago (New
Directors is co-sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center [the
sponsor of the NYFF] and the Museum of Modern Art), and several Kore-eda
films have been included in previous NYFFs.  Several additional Asian films
will be included in the festival: Jia Zhangke's *Ash Is Purest White *(China),
Lee Chang-dong's *Burning *(South Korea), Ying Liang's *A Family Tour
*(Taiwan/...),
Hong Sangsoo's *Grass *and his *Hotel by the River *(both South Korea), Jafar
Panahi's *3 Faces *(Iran), and Bi Gan's *Long Day's Journey Into Night*
(China/France).  The Festival runs from September 28 thru October 14.
Dates for individual films are still TBA, but the festival hopes to have
many of the directors present.

https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2018/daily/56th-new-york-film-festival-main-slate-announced/


Also in New York this weekend thru August 15th, the Metrograph is
presenting a Makoto Shinkai retrospective

http://metrograph.com/series/series/168/makoto-shinkai

and reprising films from its Yoshida x 3 series from last weekend

http://metrograph.com/series/series/165/yoshida-x-3


Bill Thompson
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