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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe wuxia epic “Drunken Blade” is among the many films screening at this year’s 25th Asian Film Festival of Dallas, running this weekend at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe wuxia epic “Drunken Blade” is among the many films screening at this year’s 25th Asian Film Festival of Dallas, running this weekend at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Provided by Asian Film Festival of Dallas<\/p>\n
The Asian Film Festival of Dallas (AFFD<\/a>) turns 25 this year, and it\u2019s marking the occasion with arguably its strongest lineup yet. This weekend, the festival returns to the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station<\/a> with 27 films, several premieres, cult classic screenings and a full slate of events from now through July 26.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s edition brings films from seven countries and regions to Dallas screens, a milestone that carries real weight for the people who built it.<\/p>\n \u201cSince 2002, AFFD has showcased more than 600 films from across Asia and the Asian diaspora, connecting filmmakers, artists and audiences through the power of storytelling,\u201d co-executive director David Chong said in a release.<\/p>\n The festival bookends its weekend with heavy hitters, and it starts \u2014 and ends \u2014 with the same filmmaker. Thursday\u2019s opening night belonged to \u201cColony,\u201d the new zombie epic from Yeon Sang-ho, the same mind behind \u201cTrain to Busan.\u201d This time, the terror climbs a skyscraper instead of riding the rails, complete with a hive-mind of undead that learns as it hunts. If you loved what Yeon did on a bullet train, wait until you see what he does with 30 floors of infected chaos. Then, on closing night, the festival circles back to where it all began: \u201cTrain to Busan\u201d returns to the big screen for its 10th anniversary \u2014 a relentless, emotionally charged ride that helped reshape what the genre could be.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Arts & Culture newsletter to get the latest stories delivered to your inbox<\/p>\n THANK YOU!<\/p>\n You’re all set.<\/p>\n CLOSE\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Speaking of legends, \u201cIchi the Killer,\u201d Takashi Miike\u2019s notoriously gonzo 2001 cult classic, returned for a special anniversary screening on Thursday. It also played during AFFD\u2019s inaugural year, making this a full-circle moment for longtime fans.<\/p>\n Genre lovers get plenty more to chew on. The world premiere of \u201cGamaland\u201d spins a VHS-fueled J-horror mockumentary, while the U.S. premiere of \u201cAnyMart\u201d turns a soul-crushing supermarket into a corporate horror-satire. Add Thailand\u2019s darkly funny \u201cHuman Resource,\u201d Malaysia\u2019s slick neo-noir \u201cMacai\u201d and China\u2019s wuxia epic \u201cDrunken Blade,\u201d and you\u2019ve got a passport that never sits still.<\/p>\n The lineup is far more than fright night, too. \u201c3670\u201d offers a tender, urgent Korean drama about a gay North Korean defector searching for belonging. \u201cLucky Lu\u201d follows a New York City delivery rider fighting to hold his American dream together. Two documentaries arrive with filmmaker Q&As: \u201cYear of the Cat,\u201d a deeply personal quest to solve a mystery rooted in the Fall of Saigon, and \u201cDiamond Diplomacy,\u201d which explores how baseball bridged the U.S. and Japan.<\/p>\n To see the full lineup and screening times, see the full schedule online.<\/a> Individual tickets run $15 for general admission and $20 for the opening<\/a>, centerpiece and closing films, with festival badges available for $250. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wuxia epic “Drunken Blade” is among the many films screening at this year’s 25th Asian Film Festival…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,64,577],"class_list":["post-385532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-events","tag-festivals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>The centerpiece slot goes to Dave Boyle\u2019s \u201cNever After Dark,\u201d an atmospheric Japanese psychological horror fresh off winning the Midnighter Audience Award at South by Southwest. Picture an isolated setting, a slow-tightening dread and characters whose own paranoia may be scarier than whatever waits in the dark. If you like your scares to linger, put this one at the top of your list.<\/p>\n