village voice > film > Life Beyond J-Horror at Asian Film Fest by Aaron Hillis

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NYAFF, week 1.
Published 6/18/2008 at GreenCine Daily
... 's seventh annual extravaganza of demented pop curiosities both highbrow and low- returns with its largest lineup and juiciest cherry pickings yet," writes Aaron Hillis in the Voice. ...

Weekend Movie Forecast: Get Smart Vs. The Love Guru
Published 6/20/2008 by John Del Signore at Gothamist
... herself to love it’s as if she were opening a vein.” And if the New York Asian Film Festival lives up to its press release, you may want to buy tickets in bulk; apparently it’s “back like a bad dream, ready to cleanse the dirt from your soul with a seventeen day orgy of new films from Takashi Miike, Johnnie To, Hur Jin-Ho, Koji Wakamatsu and Shinji Aoyama.” The festival opens tonight with Japanese romantic comedy Then Summer Came at IFC; the Voice has a good guide to the fest.