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Aha! I can see the hand of Tony Rayns in this program, as quite a few of these are also playing London Film Festival right afterwards, and also, this explains why we had to drop Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo from Raindance, due to scheduling clashes - I'm not sure its a film worth going out on a limb for, but it has its own points of interest I guess.<br>I was hoping that Bare Essence of Life was going to be good enough to be included in our woman directors focus at Raindance, but personally I found it excruciating when I saw it at Cannes. Eatrip also seemed a thoroughly pointless experience. The other films I don't know anything about, but Island of Dreams sounds sort of interesting.<br><br>Jasper<br><br>Midnight Eye: The Latest and Best in Japanese Cinema<br>www.midnighteye.com<br><br>More details about me on http://jaspersharp.com/<br><br><br><br><br>> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:43:21 -0700<br>> From: mso1@sfu.ca<br>> To: KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<br>> Subject: VIFF 2009 suggestions?<br>> <br>> Hi all,<br>> <br>> I am currently deciding which films to see at the Vancouver Int'l Film Festival, which is taking place next month.<br>> <br>> I have extremely limited time and childcare issues to boot, so I don't think I can see more than 3 films (at the most).<br>> <br>> The list of Japanese films being shown can be found here:<br>> http://www.viff.org/tixSYS/2009/filmguide/Country/JJ<br>> <br>> The only one I've decided on is the new Koreeda film, _Air Doll_. It is described as "surprising," so I don't know what to think of that, but being a fan of his other films I've put it on my list.<br>> <br>> Those of you in the know: can you recommend which are worth seeing, and which are not? In your opinion anyway? Any standouts? You can reply to me off-list, or if you think your reply will be of interest to others, please feel free to reply to the whole list.<br>> <br>> The ones I'm particularly curious about are _Kamui_ (is it really the best ninja movie ever, or is this just fanspeak??) and the anime coproduction, _McDull..._. But I'm open to all other suggestions.<br>> <br>> Best regards,<br>> Melek<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Melek Ortabasi, Ph.D.<br>> Assistant Professor<br>> World Literature Program<br>> Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences<br>> Simon Fraser University<br>> Unit 250-13450<br>> 102 Ave., Surrey, BC<br>> V3T0A3 CANADA<br>> Phone: 778-782-8660<br>> <br>> "Education is what survives when what has been learned is forgotten." -- B. F. Skinner, "Education in 1984," _New Scientist_ (1969)<br><br /><hr />Have more than one Hotmail account? <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/' target='_new'>Link them together to easily access both.</a></body>
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