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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>One would think the French would have a word for auteurism . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> KineJapan [mailto:kinejapan-bounces@lists.osu.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 8, 2018 8:18 PM<br><b>To:</b> Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan@lists.osu.edu><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [KineJapan] Bowing before Eastwood<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Wow, yeah. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I've had the American Sniper fight too. Good read, this article.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I want to concede that being from the same country can leave one blind to an artist's beauty, but it's so true that no one will ever say what they think is so *good* about his movies. And it’s not like they’re all terrible enough to knock down one by one. They just don’t feel very meticulously considered or crafted. It has led to many very frustrating nights of drinking with othewise great friends (possibly on this list?) - cinefils and movie lovers. The first time it started happening, around 2008, I went and watched every movie he’d made for the previous ten years. And they just don’t even begin to warrant comparisons to other American masters—say John Ford, whose name has come up in these conversations. (nor, per the article, Hitchcok and Ozu)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I do have a modest response to (Japanese) people I’ve met who were apparently moved by Gran Torino as some kind of redemption for US wars in Asia, which is to ask them to imagine the same movie made by and starring Takeshi as a racist cold-hearted war veteran, with the audience laughing along with him cursing up a storm of racial slurs for the first half, until he warms to some delicious food and underage kids whom only he can save, through literal sacrifice in a shower of cherry blossoms. Set in Okubo or someplace. Call the film Yamazakura or Yaezakura or something.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>This comparision doesn’t work for Eastwood fans who don’t like Gran Torino though.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Apparently it’s a scourge in France too: <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.capricci.fr/clint-fucking-eastwood-80.html">Clint Fucking Eastwood </a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>"Eastwood a le droit à un étrange traitement de faveur qui s’explique, me semble-t-il, par le fait qu’on a cru, et continue à croire, au fétiche. Il y a une façon d’héroïsation du cinéaste qui fonctionne à plein chez les spectateurs, comme s’ils étaient contents d’avoir encore un objet à vénérer. Je pousserais volontiers un pas plus loin en précisant que le fétiche que vénèrent les spectateurs français ce n’est pas seulement l’homme Eastwood mais l’homme qui se prend pour la vieille Amérique, pour l’Amérique idéale."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Jeremy Harley<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Mabashi Movie Festival<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 7:15 PM, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Is Hasumi really that influential at Kinema Junpo?<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 6:11 PM Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> Nice Hadfield article on the critical fawning for Clint Eastwood on Japan. I once had a conversation with Funahashi-san about American Sniper that devolved into an argument where neither of us could understand the other or care to budge. Since then I studiously avoid the subject. I can’t say Hadfield has cracked the Clint Code—-unless I is, indeed, Hasumi’s fault—- but it’s an entertaining read.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Markus<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/03/07/films/clint-eastwoods-japan-critics-always-make-day/" target="_blank">https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/03/07/films/clint-eastwoods-japan-critics-always-make-day/</a>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'>--- </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#274E13;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=56 height=96 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D3B71B.14030AA0" alt="Image removed by sender."></span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#274E13'>Markus Nornes</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#38761D'>Professor of Asian Cinema</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#38761D'>Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#93C47D'>Department of Screen Arts and Cultures</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#93C47D'>6348 North Quad</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#93C47D'>105 S. 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