<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> hi all,</o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p><br></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p>short notice, but for people in town, this is screening tonight @ UCLA. I was a big fan of _Shimotsuma monogatari_, and am interested to see where this one goes. </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p><br></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p>Has anyone read the novel (_Kokuhaku_)? </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p><br></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><i>Melnitz Movies and the Graduate Students Association present...</i><br><br><b>CONFESSIONS<br>Thursday, January 6th @ 7:30 PM</b><br><br>Japan's official Oscar entry for Best Foreign Film<br><br>Tetsuya Nakashima’s Confessions is one of Japan’s most important films of the year. Reigning the national box office for weeks, the film has seduced, frightened, provoked and moved audiences with the depth of its focus on the delinquency of a despairing youth. A stylized mixture of cruelty and compassion, Confessions deals with school violence, bullying, revenge and love, while a<span class="textexposedhide">...</span><span class="textexposedshow">lso addressing the miserable state of Japanese public schools, prejudices against HIV victims and the consequences of allowing teenage violence to go unpunished.</span><br><br><span class="textexposedshow">Based on the bestselling novel Kohuhaku by Kanae Minato, Confessions reveals the key mystery in its opening sequence and then focuses on the reasons that prompted this violent act and subsequent vendetta. Shifting between the point of view of the teenagers and the devastated, grieving teacher, Nakashima prevents the audience from taking sides, allowing the viewers room to come to their own conclusions about the dark acts they witness.</span><br><br><span class="textexposedshow">Official selection Toronto International Film Festival 2010, Official Oscar entry Best Foreign Film (Japan)</span><br><br><span class="textexposedshow">"Sustaining a fugue-like, intensifying counterpoint of sound and image over its 103 minutes, it's truly mesmerizing, and in terms of structure and articulation, hands down one of the most original films I've seen recently, affording a glimpse of another possible direction 21st-century cinema might take." - Gavin Smith, FILM COMMENT</span><br><br><span class="textexposedshow">Director: Tetsuya Nakashima</span><br><span class="textexposedshow">Starring: Takako Matsu, Yoshino Kimura, Masaki Okada, Yukito Nishii, Kaoru Fujiwara, Ai Hashimoto</span><br><span class="textexposedshow">Screenwriter: Tetsuya Nakashima</span><br><span class="textexposedshow">Cinematography: Shoichi Ato, Atsushi Ozawa</span><br><span class="textexposedshow">35mm, 106 minutes</span></p></body></html>