recommendations?

[Joseph Murphy]

Dear Listmembers,
We have a student organization here that runs an informal film 
series, and they would like to pick up some films in subtitled DVD 
format on the theme "Sub/urban alienation."  It's a college audience, 
knowledgable about film, but no particular familiarity with Japanese 
cinema assumed.

For films from Chinese cinema, they've got Fallen Angels. Wong Kar 
Wai; and Vive L'amore. Tsai Ming-Liang.

I'm thinking about the film equivalent to Honma Takashi's suburban 
photographs, or Nakano Masaki's photographs of empty Tokyo, and a 
number of films come to mind, but it's really limiting to have to 
find something in subtitled DVD.

Anybody have any thoughts on the Gainax mockumentary "Otaku no video" 
(1982)?  Is that worth a look?  Does Takashi Miike's "Audition" 
usefully address the topic, or will it strike the audience as a 
straight genre film?  Any other suggestions?

yours,
J. Murphy

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Univ. of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32601, USA
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