Gaijin perspective from malaysia!

Sat Apr 3 12:30:38 EST 2004

Dear KineJapaners,

I do not know if it's gonna be worth anyone's time but
I am putting the finishing touches to a personal
documentary film on Tokyo shot during my fellowship
there with the Japan Foundation in 2002.

I am a malaysian and, in so much as most of the
forementioned films are from a "western" perspective
(maybe), I hope my film will offer something new to
the dialogue amongst different cultures.

Frankly, i think there's too many "outsider in
Tokyo/Japan" films already, and i hope mine doesn't
add to that surplus.

It is slated for a Malaysian premiere in June, but I
would like very much to organize a small preview
screening in Tokyo around mid-May or early June, if i
could. Any tips or advice to that effect would be most
welcome.

It is tentatively titled, "Glass Enclosure".

Regards,
Mohd Naguib Razak

p/s Lost in Translation sucks!

 --- "Peter M. Grilli" <grilli at us-japan.org> wrote: >
I'd like to recommend a number of other
> documentaries on Japan -- some of
> which I've personally worked on, and some I simply
> admire for their
> excellence.  Some of them are not exactly "recent"
> -- but their age doesn't
> detract at all from the value.
> 
> 
> HELLFIRE: A Journey from Hiroshima  (directed by
> John Junkerman & John
> Dower)  (1986)
> 
> THE AMERICAN VERSION (directed by Louis Alvarez &
> Andy Kolker)
> 
> DREAM WINDOW: Reflections on the Japanese Garden 
> (directed by John
> Junkerman; script by me;  Smithsonian Instituteion,
> 1992)
> 
> KUROSAWA (a 2-hour special bio-documentary on Akira
> Kurosawa; produced by
> BBC & WNET for PBS' "Great Performances,"  2001;
> directed by Adam Low; Producer: Margaret Smilow. I
> was a co-producer)
> 
> MUSIC FOR THE MOVIES:  TORU TAKEMITSU  (directed by
> Charlotte Zwerin, 1993;
> I was co-producer with Margaret Smilow)
> 
> SHINTO: Nature, Gods and Man in Japan  (produced by
> Japan Society, NY;
> directed by David Westphal & me, 1978)
> 
> More information about nearly all these films can be
> found on the Internet
> Movie Data Base (http://www.imdb.com )  or at
> Asian Educational Media Service 
> (http://www.aems.uiuc.edu )
> 
> 
> In the list below, the director of the fine
> documentary THE INLAND SEA
> (based on Donald Richie's travel-memoir) should
> correctly by Lucille Carra.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Peter Grilli
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> [mailto:owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu]On
> Behalf Of Mitch
> Cullin
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 7:38 AM
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: Gaijin perspective.
> 
> 
> "Tokyo Eyes" isn't actually a documentary, so you
> might want to scratch it from your list.  However, I
> think "The Inland Sea" fits the bill--directed by
> Lucilla Carter and adapted from the writings of
> Donald
> Richie.  Also, "Tokyo-Ga" directed by Wim Wenders is
> worthy.  Charlotte Zwerin directed a segment for the
> "Music for the Movies" series about the composer
> Toru
> Takemitsu.  "AK" by Chris Marker is another one.
> 
> --- Joao Paulo Silva <jsilva at contacto3.icep.pt>
> wrote:
> > Hi all Kinejapaners
> >
> > I've been doing some research on recent gaijin
> > perspectives of Japan through documentary film and
> > came about with the following list:
> >
> > Kim Longinotto (Eat the Kimono, Gaea-Girls, Dream
> > Girls, The Good Wife of Tokyo, Shinjuku Boys)
> > Brice Pedroletti (Knocking on Heaven's
> > Door-Kamagasaki)
> > Jean Pierre Limousin (Tokyo Eyes)
> > Trinh T. Minh-ha (The Fourth Dimension)
> > Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker (The Japanese
> > Version)
> > Sue Clayton (Japan Dreaming)
> > Chip Lord (Aroma of Enchantment)
> > Walter Salles (Japao, uma viagem no tempo)
> > Chris Marker (Sunless)
> >
> > Does anybody remember of other works?
> >
> > Thank you and best regards,
> >
> > Joao Paulo
> 
> 
> =====
> Most recent propaganda (updated when I remember):
> http://www.smart.co.uk/dreams/tidecull.htm
>
http://publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=articleArchive&arti
> cleId=CA70934&display=searchResults&stt=001
>
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2000-11-10/books_set2.html
>
http://partners.nytimes.com/books/00/09/24/reviews/000924.24lewist.html
>
http://www.thepermanentpress.com/bookdisp.ihtml?id=303
> http://www.fetchbook.info/Mitch_Cullin.html
> http://www.corpse.org/issue_8/reviews/phelan.htm
> http://uk.news.yahoo.com/020613/242/d11q6.html
>
http://generationrice.com/index.phtml?talk=peterichang_1
> http://www.minsky.com/branches.htm
> 
> "As the movie industry becomes more like the
> merchandising industry, the
> book business becomes more like the movie industry. 
> There's more pressure.
> I think it's very difficult to be a young writer
> today.  I fear that young
> writers, after one or two books, will disappear the
> way young film directors
> do."  --Don DeLillo
> 
> 
>  

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