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Surely Someday surely should have been number one. I'll never forgive the Yubari programmers for imposing this on us for the opening night last year!<br><br><br>Jasper Sharp: Writer & Film Curator Homepage<br>http://jaspersharp.com/<br><br>Midnight Eye: The Latest and Best in Japanese Cinema<br>http://www.midnighteye.com<br><br>Zipangu Fest: Japanarchy in the UK<br>http://zipangufest.com/<br><br><br><br><br>> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:22:26 -0800<br>> From: mekerpan@verizon.net<br>> To: KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<br>> Subject: Re: Eigei Worst Ten 2010<br>> <br>> Reading these lists year after year, all I can think is "I REALLY don't think I like these guys".<br>> <br>> MEK<br>> <br>> --- On Wed, 1/26/11, Alex Zahlten <Alex.Zahlten@gmx.de> wrote:<br>> <br>> > From: Alex Zahlten <Alex.Zahlten@gmx.de><br>> > Subject: Eigei Worst Ten 2010<br>> > To: KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<br>> > Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 1:07 AM<br>> > <br>> > Hi everyone,<br>> > <br>> > since the worst ten list is what sets the Eiga Geijutsu<br>> > poll apart from the other more or less major polls in Japan,<br>> > I think it's worth spreading it around as well.<br>> > There are, by the way, a lot of critics even from the Eiga<br>> > Geijutsu poll that don't vote in the worst ten list (usually<br>> > for fear of offending people), so the pool of voters is<br>> > smaller than for the best ten list. <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > 1. Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima)<br>> > 2. Caterpillar (Koji Wakamatsu)<br>> > 3. About Her Brother (Yoji Yamada)<br>> > 4. Incite Mill (Hideo Nakata)<br>> > 5. Tokyo Island (Makoto Shinozaki)<br>> > 6. Zatoichi, The Last (Junji Sakamoto)<br>> > 6. Surely Someday (Shun Oguri)<br>> > 8. Space Battleship Yamato (Takashi Yamazaki)<br>> > 9. Bayside Shakedown 3 (Katsuyuki Motohiro)<br>> > 9. Solanin (Takahiro Miki)<br>> > <br>> > Alex<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > -------- Original-Nachricht --------<br>> > > Datum: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:50:10 -0500<br>> > > Von: Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow@yale.edu><br>> > > An: KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<br>> > > Betreff: Eigei Best Ten 2010<br>> > <br>> > > The results of the Eiga geijutsu poll of the best (and<br>> > worst) films of <br>> > > 2010 was just announced:<br>> > > <br>> > > http://eigageijutsu.com/article/181634398.html<br>> > > <br>> > > Here they are in English:<br>> > > <br>> > > 1. Heaven's Story (Zeze Takahisa)<br>> > > 2. Doman Seman (Shibata Go)<br>> > > 3. Kore de ii no kashira (Okishima Isao)<br>> > > 4. Partners (Shimomura Masaru)<br>> > > 5. Yellow Kid (Mariko Tetsuya)<br>> > > 6. Sawako Decides (Ishii Yuya)<br>> > > 6. Sankaku (Yoshida Keisuke)<br>> > > 8. 13 Assassins (Miike Takashi)<br>> > > 9. Sketches of Kaitan City (Kumakiri Kazuyoshi)<br>> > > 9. Time Traveller (Masaaki Taniguchi)<br>> > > 9. Boys on the Run (Miura Daisuke)<br>> > > <br>> > > You can also see this on my blog:<br>> > > http://www.aarongerow.com/news/eiga-geijutsu-best-10-for-2.html<br>> > > <br>> > > The results are rather typical for Eigei: eccentric,<br>> > independent, very <br>> > > favorable to films made by friends of the magazine,<br>> > brutal on people <br>> > > they don't like. Confessions, which was number 2 in<br>> > the KineJun poll-- <br>> > > and which just failed to get the Oscar nomination<br>> > nod--was number 1 on <br>> > > the Eigei worst poll (they hate Nakashima there, which<br>> > I think is <br>> > > unfair). I used to vote for the Eigei poll, but they<br>> > have the tendency <br>> > > to cull out selectors who are picking the wrong<br>> > films.<br>> > > <br>> > > Aaron Gerow<br>> > > Associate Professor<br>> > > Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and<br>> > Literatures<br>> > > Director of Undergraduate Studies, Film Studies<br>> > > Yale University<br>> > > 53 Wall Street, Room 316<br>> > > PO Box 208363<br>> > > New Haven, CT 06520-8363<br>> > > USA<br>> > > Phone: 1-203-432-7082<br>> > > Fax: 1-203-432-6764<br>> > > e-mail: aaron.gerow@yale.edu<br>> > > site: www.aarongerow.com<br>> > > <br>> > > <br>> > > <br>> > <br>> > -- <br>> > alex@nipponconnection.de<br>> > <br>> > NEU: FreePhone - kostenlos mobil telefonieren und<br>> > surfen! <br>> > <br>> > Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone<br>> > <br>                                            </body>
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