TIFF Awards

Rob Schwartz gangamati
Mon Oct 31 22:25:30 EST 2005


Chris-

David Desser's Eros Plus Massacre is a great (defintive perhaps, I'll
that judgement to the profs on the list) text for taiyozoku, Nuberu
Bagu and ATG films. It's one of my favorite imprints on Japanese film.

rob schwartz

On 11/1/05, Chris Radcliff <crad60 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I saw Who's Camus Anyway a few weeks ago at the NYFF,
> where Mr. Yanigamachi and one of the actors spoke
> afterwards.  I personally loved the film, it was sort
> of an Altman-esque ensemble piece (even including an
> opening shot modeled after The Player) and the young
> cast were quite impressive.
>
> When asked if he saw the character of the professor as
> a version of himself, he pretty much denied it.  The
> theme of the film he stressed was the emotional
> disconnect felt by young people in Japan today,
> something he has observed over the years while working
> as a film professor in Tokyo.  My film history
> professor, who programs the NYFF and spoke personally
> with Mr. Yanigamachi, told me that the film has been
> courting some interest from some small US
> distributors, so here's hoping it gets a theatrical
> release sometime in the near future.
>
> --Chris
>
> PS. I guess I never introduced myself to the list;
> I'm a graduate film student at Columbia University, I
> minored in Asian studies in undergrad, with a focus on
> Japanese film - right now I am interested in learning
> about the Japanese New Wave of the 60's/70's,
> taiyozoku films, and the ATG.  If anyone can recommend
> decent english texts on these topics, I would greatly
> appreciate it.
>
> --- Eija Margit Niskanen <emniskanen at wisc.edu> wrote:
>
> > I missed Ski Jumping Pairs, but Yanamigachi's film
> > was an interesting
> > story of a group of university art department
> > students and their
> > professor, who are making a film. The professor is
> > kind of an alter ego
> > for Yanagimachi, who like the director himself, has
> > not been able to
> > make a film in 19 years.
> >
> > Eija
> >
> > On Oct 31, 2005, at 7:55 PM, Mark Nornes wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Monday, October 31, 2005, at 01:20  AM, Eija
> > Margit Niskanen wrote:
> > >
> > >> Who's Camus Anyway? dir. Mitsuo Yanagimachi
> > >> Special Award
> > >> Ski Jumping Pairs -Road to Torino 2006- dir.
> > Masaki Kobayashi
> > >
> > > I've very curious. Has anyone seen these films?
> > >
> > > Markus
> > >
> >
> >
>
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