VERTIGO and UK Japan Foundation

[J.sharp]

Just to second Alastair's recommendation to check out the new Vertigo. The
magazine tends to focus on underground and exerimental film and video,
treating it within the broader framework of the visual arts than cinema
culture. So the editorial selection here has been very interesting, with
interviews with Ryuichi Hiroki, Sono Sion and Kiyoshi Kurosawa accompanied
by an eclectic mix of of articles, many admirably by Japanese writers,
including Go Hirasawa (on Wakamatsu's new film), Asako Fujioka (on
documentary in Japan) and Tetsuaki Matsue (on himself, vis-a-vis Company
Matsuo/AV).

Following on, the Japan Foundation season entitled Move Over, Ozu: The 21st
Century Japanese Family on Film will be beginning this weekend at the
Bristol Watershed.

I've assisted in putting together the films the program, and I have to
confess am the person responsible for the piece of copy about the films
being 'firmly rooted in the real world'.

After the Comic Proportions season last year about manga adaptations, the
general aim of this season was to find a theme that would gather together
some great films without alienating people with no particular interest in
Japanese cinema or culture. We were trying to get away from the yakuza,
anime and j-horror cliches and just show some great films, mainly the better
titles from the past few years that have been ignored by film festivals and
distributors, in the UK at least.

The six selected films are; Hush! (Ryosuke Hashiguchi), Sway (Miwa
Nishikawa), Hanging Garden (Toshiaki Toyoda), A Laughing Frog (Hideyuki
Hirayama), Licence to Live (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) and Canary (Akihiko Shiota).

The season will be screening at various cinemas around the UK throughout
February and March 2007.

I'm introducing the Bristol season this Sunday with an introductory talk
about the Japanese cinema.
For general info see http://www.jpf.org.uk/whatson.html

for Bristol information
http://www.watershed.co.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Watershed.woa/wa/exhibit?daysToDisplay=2&typesToDisplay=0&object=968

And while we're still in the South West of Englad, the Move Over Ozu season
also coincides with the Bristol leg of the Wild Japan touring season, which
is playing just over the river from the Watershed at the Arnolfini arts
centre, with film including Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill and Norifumi
Suzuki's School of the Holy Beast.

See: www.arnolfini.org.uk/

And FINALLY, also at the Arnofini, the Teinosuke Kinugasa's 1926 avant-garde
classic A PAGE OF MADNESS will be screening with a life accompaniment.

It's all go in the UK at the moment...
Maybe I'll see some Kinejapanner's at some of these events?

Best,

Jasper Sharp

www.midnighteye.com














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From: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
To: kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu <kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: VERTIGO
Date: 28/01/07 01:04

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> The latest issue of the UK film magazine, Vertigo, is dedicated to
independent Japanese cinema. It also has details of a new touring programme
of contemporary Japanese films 'firmly rooted in the real world' organised
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