Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Date: Fridays, July 10, 17, 24 & 31; August 7, 2009 Time: 5:30PM to 8:00PM Place: 25 West 43rd Street, Room 1000, between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan Free Admission Seating is extremely limited, and we are only able to accommodate up to 30 attendees per session. Registration will only be accepted per session on … Read more
Summer Palace (China, 2006) Running Time: 140 Minutes Beijing students and lovers Yu Hong (Lei Hao) and Zhou Wei (Xiaodong Guo) are torn apart during student pro-democracy demonstrations, and Zhou flees to the country. Years later, haunted by the memory of Yu, Zhou returns to China to find his true love. But has their love … Read more
Mongol (Mongolia, 2007) Running Time: 125 Minutes In the 12th century, an orphaned young slave named Temudjin (Tadanobu Asano) escapes from his captors and begins the journey that will lead him to become one of the greatest conquerors the world has ever known. Honglei Sun and Ying Bai co-star in this Oscar-nominated epic adventure from … Read more
Slumdog Millionaire (United Kingdom, 2008) Running Time: 120 Minutes After coming within one question of winning 20 million rupees on the Indian version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” 18-year-old Mumbai “slumdog” Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) is arrested on suspicion of cheating. While in custody, Jamal regales a jaded police inspector (Irfan Khan) with … Read more
Iikiru (Japan, 1952) Running Time: 143 Minutes When a stoic government official (Takashi Shimura, with a BAFTA nomination for Best Foreign Actor) in post-war Japan learns he has terminal cancer, he realizes he has squandered his life on meaningless red tape and has no close family or friendships to lean on. He resolves to use … Read more
Better Luck Tomorrow (USA, 2003) Running Time: 99 Minutes Ah, the pressures of being young, rich and brilliant. Discontent with his current lifestyle of straight A’s and upper-middle-class monotony, overachieving high school student Ben Manibag (Parry Shen) seeks a lifestyle of excitement and danger. He finds it with help from a suburban gang of other … Read more