"Film-crazed New Yorkers were treated to the funky, surreal, romantic, and offbeat world of Asian cinema in the Asian Films Are Go!!! New York Asian Film Festival 2002 which ran from April 27th through May 2nd in Lower Manhattan's much-loved Anthology Filmed Archives. Presented by Subway Cinema, the New York-based film programming collective that is consistently outdoing itself with each new festival, Asian Films Are Go!!! once again proved that pure celluloid ecstasy can be had without kowtowing to mainstream American fare.

If Subway Cinema keeps up this impressive selection of films in future festivals, film critics and film buffs alike will no doubt flock to the Big Apple the way they do with Cannes, Telluride, and Sundance. Just don't expect the folks at Subway Cinema to give you a private room to gab on your cell phone. With Subway Cinema, it's all about the movies."

-Mark Yoshiyama, YOLK.

"What does the rest of the world's cinema do for fun? To find out, take a taxi or a plane right now to Anthology Film Archives in lower Manhattan, where the populist movie collective called Subway Cinema is putting on quite a show: a 11-picture spree called Asian Films Are Go!!! All those exclamation points are warranted, for the series fairly screams with the agitation and aggression of a form of popular entertainment demanding the same fair shake as their arty siblings with the goatees and the low pulse rate."

-Richard Corliss, TIME.com

Someone else can show the art movies, Subway Cinema wants to clear the landing pads for the blockbusters, and here they come. Korean, Thai, Chinese, and Japanese audiences want the same thing from their movies that we do: entertainment. And thousands of them flocked to these movies. Each of these flicks is a propulsive pop masterpiece, designed to seek out your pleasure centers and stimulate them without mercy.

VISITOR Q celebrates love of family (and breast milk, and incest, and corpse mutilation) easily earning the title of "Most Offensive Movie of 2001". MY SASSY GIRL is Korea's number one comedy of all time: a romance with a tough exterior hiding an 80,000 volt heart. The cast and crew of ATTACK THE GAS STATION reunite to make KICK THE MOON, a comedy that grows to enormous proportions and threatens to take over the world. GAMERA 2 and 3 are about the love a giant, atomic turtle has for stomping on Tokyo with his flippers. PISTOL OPERA celebrates the love of its 78 year old director for pure cinema, pure nonsensical, beautiful, "huh? what happened?", going out of your head cinema. And COMEUPPANCE gives out a medal for civic virtue to all the secret poisoners out there, doing their part to get rid of all the obnoxious people.

So here they are: an alternate line-up of summer blockbusters just waiting for an audience. It's a giant UFO of movie madness that's hovering downtown, with its landing ramp extended and all you have to do is walk in and be whisked off into a universe of dancing terrorists, lovesick sound engineers, wheelchair-bound hitmen, surly chicks, battle-axe swinging drunks, and the eternal, apocalyptic battle between jocks and geeks.

Hollywood is so over.
And Subway Cinema is proud to do its part to spread the word.

> ONE FINE SPRING DAY
(South Korea/Hong Kong/Japan)

Subway Cinema would like to thank
>Travis Crawford and the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema
(without whose assistance this festival truly would not have been possible).
>Stephen Cremin, for his invaluable information and advice.
>Pierre Corbeil, Lee Mi-Jeong, and the Fantasia film festival, for their continued friendship.
>The Criterion Collection and Home Vision/Public Media for their generosity.