BAFF 2008, 10th Edition with Hong Kong as special guest!!!

Hello geek mortals!!!! From yesterday, and till the next sunday (not tomorrow but the May 4th :P), the Barcelona Asiatic Film Festival is on the stage of the city!!! This is the 10th edition of this festival (that means, this is a prestigious event, although some people can't believe that :P), and the special guest country is Hong Kong, the most impressive noir asiatic factory, from where the hollywood-exported John Woo learned everything he knows :)

So, as I did with Sitges 2007 Festival, I'm going to see several movies (not 30 but 13 this time XD), and of course, a review of every movie will be psoted in the blog (the chronicle will be probably scheduled on two posts, apart from this preamble).

There are movies from Japan, China and South Corea mainly, but as it's previsible, Hong Kong has a special place on my preferences list, with some movies of my adored Johnnie To and others (however, it'll be impossible for me to see Made in Hong Kong, projected only on sunday afternoon... :(

Therefore, as the preamble of this BAFF 2008 and with the (easily deceived :P) hope of some one getting motivated for some movies I will see (thanks for coming on wednesday Anna!! muaa :P and of course, also to Gammateruo, my preferred asiatic-film-mate, since I'm sharing the vision of lot of films :D), I'm going to publish the list of movies I'll see, the theatre where the projection will be, and the starting time, everything ordered by day :)


> Friday, April 25th

• 22:30, Aribau Club 2: ASSEMBLY (JIJIEHAO) (Feng Xiaogang; China, 2007)
  

> Saturday, April 26th

• 17:00, Aribau Club 1: SAD VACATION (SADDO BAKESHON) (Shinji Aoyama; Japan, 2007)
  
• 19:45, Aribau Club 1: SECRET SUNSHINE (MYRYANG) (Lee Chang-Dong; South Corea, 2007)
  

> Sunday, April 27th

• 22:15, CCCB Auditori: FANTASTIC PARASUICIDES (FANTASTIC JA-SAL-SO-DONG) (Park Soo-Young, Jo Chang-Ho, Kim Sung-Ho; South Corea, 2007)

> Monday, April 28th

• 19:30, CCCB Auditori: POWERFUL FOUR (SI DA TAN ZHANG) (David Lam; Hong Kong, 1991)
  
• 22:15, Cinema Maldà: ON THE EDGE (HAK BAK DO) (Herman Yau; Hong Kong, 2006)
  

> Tuesday, April 29th

• 19:00, Cinema Maldà: DEVILS ON THE DOORSTEP (GUIZI LAI LE) (Jiang Wen; China, 2000)
  
• 22:00, Cinema Maldà: MY LIFE AS MCDULL (MAK DAU GOO SI) (Toe Yuen; Hong Kong, 2001)
  

> Wednesday, April 30th

• 22:00, Cinema Maldà: RUNNING OUT OF TIME (AM ZIN) (Johnnie To; Hong Kong, 1999)
  

> Friday, May 2nd

• 17:30, Aribau Club 1: FUNUKE SHOW SOME LOVE, YOU LOSERS! (Yoshida Daihachi; Japan, 2007)
  
• 20:00, CCCB Auditori: THE MISSION (CHEUNG FO) (Johnnie To; Hong Kong, 1991)
  
• 22:00, CCCB Auditori: LET'S FINISH!!! (WOORI ZZONG NAE JA!!!) (Whan Cheol-Mean; South Corea, 2006)

> Saturday, May 3rd

• 19:30, Aribau Club 1: ALIENTO (SOOM) (Kin Ki-Duk; South Corea, 2007)
  

And that's all, when the Kim Ki-Duk will end, BAFF will also end for me this year; yes, the next day there are also some projections, but I must filter a lot of movies because of my Master Thesis and the Research Project I'm involved in; too much things to do, and so little mount of hours per day :S Anyway, for the moment, I've seen Assembly and my impression is pretty awesome, a very good movie!!!! And today, two movies (Sad Vacation and Secret Sunshine), and OMG!!! the film director of the first one will be present on the theatre introducing us to the movie and at the end, a public questions round!!! :D I'm so excited, I love this kind of festivals!!! :)

Come on people, let's enjoy BAFF!!! Life is poorly 4 days: working on 2, sleeping on 1, and dropping tears on the rest one... so, watching a non-standard movie in original sound version and subtitled in spanish can't be worse than the own life, no? :) C u, poor mortals!! Stay tuned on the Lair of Tears of Fire, where darkness becomes bright by the luminance of the sadness' flames!!