<div dir="ltr">I know we should separate the director as a person from the work, but several years ago Kawase was the guest of honor for about a week in Seoul and she was rude, ungrateful, condescending and historically insensitive in ways that were absolutely jaw-dropping. One event was a two-hour conversation she was to have with Kim Soyoung and the audience - I think from 7-9 one evening. The theater was packed. She was forty minutes late - she just walked on stage announcing, "I've been shopping" - no apology to anyone. Then she looked around and said, "This is a beautiful theater - the Japanese must have built it for you." In the middle of Prof. Kim's opening question to her she said to her, "Wait - who are you?" and didn't seem to listen to the answer. She more than once criticized questions as "boring" before tossing off an answer. One of the boring questions was "what filmmakers have helped shape your work" to which she replied she watches only her own films. And well before the time was up, she suddenly declared, "Oh that's enough" and marched off stage - no thank you, no goodbye, nothing. After being treated like royalty for week and having her films screened and discussed etc. Anyway I realize that my reason for flinching when I heard she got the olympics film isn't quite professional but this glimpse of her has conditioned any subsequent information i have had on her. I still can't tell if my mail to this list is delivered or not. I hope so.<div>best</div><div>earl jackson<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Earl Jackson</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><div>Professor</div><div>Chair, Foreign Languages and Literatures</div><div>National Chiao Tung University</div></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Associate Professor, Emeritus</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">University of California, Santa Cruz</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Co-Director<br></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Trans-Asia Screen Cultures Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 10:07 AM Frederick Veith <<a href="mailto:notreconciled@gmail.com">notreconciled@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Aaron, I'm curious about the nature of the criticism you're seeing on Facebook and Twitter. What is it that people are objecting to? The Asahi piece is behind a paywall, so I'm not getting much from that beyond a purported tension between the "private" nature of her work, and the "public" nature of the event.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Fred.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 7:23 AM Gerow Aaron <<a href="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu" target="_blank">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It’s Ishitobi-san, with whom I got to work last year at the Tokyo Film Festival. It’s interesting he was allowed to write about his qualms. But I’ve seen a lot more criticism on Facebook and Twitter.<br>
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> 2018/10/27 午後6:20、Rea Amit <<a href="mailto:reavolution@gmail.com" target="_blank">reavolution@gmail.com</a>> のメール:<br>
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> An Asahi editor harshly criticizes Kawase's pick, calling it a mismatch:<br>
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> <a href="https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASLBV40ZWLBVULZU002.html?jumpUrl=http%253A%252F%252Fdigital.asahi.com%252Farticles%252FASLBV40ZWLBVULZU002.html%253F_requesturl%253Darticles%252FASLBV40ZWLBVULZU002.html%2526amp%253Brm%253D144" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASLBV40ZWLBVULZU002.html?jumpUrl=http%253A%252F%252Fdigital.asahi.com%252Farticles%252FASLBV40ZWLBVULZU002.html%253F_requesturl%253Darticles%252FASLBV40ZWLBVULZU002.html%2526amp%253Brm%253D144</a><br>
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> I'm looking forward for the games to be over already, so I could watch it!<br>
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> Rea<br>
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