East Asian Film Club

[Alan Kita]

You know...from my experiences, unless something changes, the Japanese
film companies are not interested in having their old films shown,
period.

I know we've gone through this thread before, but in trying to help
people show Kurosawa films, for example, there really is no need to go
on.  I hope I'm not presenting too much of a pessimistic view, but I
think perhaps it is better if the world forgets about japanese films all
together.

Which would happen if japanese film distributing companies continue
their archaic ways.

Alan

moshi moshi wrote:
> 
> Hello all.
> 
> I recently joined the East Asian Studies club of our university and, faced
> with a budget only allowing us to present rented videos as far as film
> screenings go, I was wondering if there existed some special
> program or organization to facilitate the screenings of Japanese movies. I
> would love to organize the presentation of independent films but even then
> the costs must be too much for us to bear (we have an annual budget of
> 600$can).
> 
> If anyone have any tips on how we could manage, keeping in mind we would
> probably have room, projector and projectionist for free, I would greatly
> appreciate!
> 
> Thanks,
> Olivier Petitpas
> McGill University