TIFF

Wed Jul 12 08:30:52 EDT 2006

That comment doesn't strike me as very logical - it's rather like saying that novels are "the future of cinema" because enormous sums of money are paid to adapt popular books, whereas it's rarely true that enormous sums of money are paid for the rights to adapt popular films into novels...

  Once the spread of digital technology and internet distribution has made the release of new films on celluloid in cinemas completely archaic, I suspect that the future of cinema will be the preservation, restoration and redistribution of those films generally considered to be classics. After all, commercial theatre these days devotes itself more to reviving safe works of the past than to presenting new plays. I imagine there will continue to be a small audience who will want to see classic films on the screens for which they were intended.

  ALEX

Mathieu St-Pierre <cteve at hotmail.com> wrote:
        Maybe it's sad to say, but I think the future of cinema is video games...
  Before, video games would pay an enormous amount of money to get the rights for a movie to do a game adaptation of it (think about the video game crash of 1983: The E.T. game for Atari 2600 was part of that fault). Nowadays, big movie studios pay the lump sum to get their hands on the rights to do a Resident Evil, Silent Hill, etc...
  Also, think about one of Kinji Fukasaku's last project. He directed the video game Clock Tower 3. Also, think about big name international actor giving their voice for video games (Jean Reno, Takeshi Kaneshiro: Onimusha 3). The industy is in mutation and I think once again Japanese are ahead of the game in a wise way.

  Mathieu St-Pierre

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From:  "Rob Schwartz" <gangamati at gmail.com>
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i think it is a great idea as a festival, not a great idea to do   
INSTEAD of TIFF, which is basically what they are talking about. Do two   
fests, one for film, one for new media/games.

If this becomes a reality for TIFF the games/non-narrative content will   
no doubt overshadow the narrative film portion of the fest. As you say   
video games are huge here and very associated with Japan.

My comment about admitting irrelevance was directed to the present   
position of TIFF in the world, not a new one with new content/video   
games. I think they should fix this irrelevance by getting better   
films, not by shifting the fest over to games/new content.

rob

  On 7/12/06, Mathieu St-Pierre <cteve at hotmail.com> wrote:   

  I think it's a great idea!

  We have a festival in Montreal called Festival du nouveau cinema et 

des nouveaux medias (Festival Of New Cinema and New Medias) and it   
features many discussions and meetings about internet, video and other   
digital works... along with international movies. The festival is doing   
pretty well.   

  Now I understand that the TIFF might me wider in terms of medias and   
presentations but Tokyo is not Montreal... it is Tokyo! So yeah,   
im sure it will do pretty well.   

  *And yes it is relevent worldwide, take for exemple those Video   
Games conventions held in Japan. It's every kids dream to go there.   

  Mathieu St-Pierre

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this is not good news in my opinion and franky, I take it as an admission

that TIFF is irrelevant worldwide. The overall idea of a Japanese

"International Content Carnival"  is a good one but it should be step up

from scratch as it obvioiusly will not focus on feature films (especially

live action one).

  On 7/12/06, Wei Ting Jen < 
intewig at gmail.com> wrote:   

I saw this in the news today, and was wondering what list members think?   

ENTERTAINMENT
Tokyo film festival to feature comics, games

Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 06:00 EDT

TOKYO — Japan is considering expanding the Tokyo International Film   

Festival to boost the country's "cultural content industry," which in
addition to books and film involves animation, comics, music and game   

software, the industry minister said Tuesday.

Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Toshihiro Nikai said at a press   

conference the film festival, which has been held 18 times, should be
expanded into an event tentatively called "International Content   

Carnival" to feature "multi contents" such as animation and comics.   

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