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<div>Dear Listmembers,</div>
<div>We have a student organization here that runs an informal film
series, and they would like to pick up some films in subtitled DVD
format on the theme "Sub/urban alienation." It's a
college audience, knowledgable about film, but no particular
familiarity with Japanese cinema assumed.</div>
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<div>For films from Chinese cinema, they've got<i> Fallen Angels.</i>
Wong Kar Wai; and<i> Vive L'amore</i>. Tsai Ming-Liang.</div>
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<div>I'm thinking about the film equivalent to Honma Takashi's
suburban photographs, or Nakano Masaki's photographs of empty Tokyo,
and a number of films come to mind, but it's really limiting to have
to find something in subtitled DVD.</div>
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<div>Anybody have any thoughts on the Gainax mockumentary "Otaku
no video" (1982)? Is that worth a look? Does Takashi
Miike's "Audition" usefully address the topic, or will it
strike the audience as a straight genre film? Any other
suggestions?</div>
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<div>yours,</div>
<div>J. Murphy</div>
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Gainesville, FL 32601, USA<br>
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