<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Matteo,<div>That's a great point. The PFF has been extremely important in maintaining an independent eye on Japanese film, and imo there are a number of established directors whose most interesting work is in the Pia archives, for example, Yaguchi Shinobu's chaotic <i>Ame Onna</i> (Rain Women, 1994) and Hashiguchi Ryosuke's delicately observed <i>Last Night's Secret</i> (Yuube no himitsu, 1989). These are a couple among the very fine directors, who got their start at Pia.</div><div>There is plenty of work at the PFF that deserves close analysis, but also, as I think you may intend, there is a very important story to be told of the importance of the festival in bridging the collapse of the Japanese studio system in the 1970s, and the emergence of a new Japanese cinema, with a quantity begets quality ethos, in the 1990s. It is a line in parallel with the pink film directors and Hasumi Shigehiko's Todai seminars. </div><div>I have an article on Yaguchi that touches on the festival's importance:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"Brownian Movement in Recent Japanese CInema," </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Postscript, vol. 18, no. 1 (1999)</div><div><br></div><div>I don't know where it's gone from there.</div><div>yours,</div><div>J. Murphy</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 26, 2010, at 4:14 AM, Me wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear All,<br><br>I was wondering if there has ever been an in-depth examination of the <br>PiaFilmFestival, either on-line or in academic papers.<br><br>Thank you in advance<br><br>Regards<br><br>Matteo Boscarol<br>- Il Manifesto -<br><a href="http://www.cineclandestino.it">http://www.cineclandestino.it</a> <a href="http://artaud.wordpress.com">http://artaud.wordpress.com</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><>---<>----<>-----<>------<></div><div>Assoc. Professor and Assoc. Chair</div><div>Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures</div><div>University of Florida</div><div>Gainesville, FL 32601-5565</div><div><a href="http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/murphy7312">www.clas.ufl.edu/users/murphy7312</a></div></div></div></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>