VIFF 2009 suggestions?

Michael Kerpan mekerpan at verizon.net
Wed Sep 16 16:24:30 EDT 2009


Is no festival interested in Kumakiri's (very nice, in my opinion) Nonko 36-sai -- or did it get passed over already?

MEK

--- On Wed, 9/16/09, Jasper Sharp <jasper_sharp at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jasper Sharp <jasper_sharp at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: VIFF 2009 suggestions?
> To: "kinejapan" <kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 7:59 PM
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> Aha! I can see the hand of Tony Rayns in this program, as
> quite a few of these are also playing London Film Festival
> right afterwards, and also, this explains why we had to drop
> Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo from Raindance, due to
> scheduling clashes - I'm not sure its a film worth going
> out on a limb for, but it has its own points of interest I
> guess.
> I was hoping that Bare Essence of Life was going to be good
> enough to be included in our woman directors focus at
> Raindance, but personally I found it excruciating when I saw
> it at Cannes. Eatrip also seemed a thoroughly pointless
> experience. The other films I don't know anything about,
> but Island of Dreams sounds sort of interesting.
> 
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> > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:43:21 -0700
> > From: mso1 at sfu.ca
> > To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> > Subject: VIFF 2009 suggestions?
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am currently deciding which films to see at the
> Vancouver Int'l Film Festival, which is taking place
> next month.
> > 
> > I have extremely limited time and childcare issues to
> boot, so I don't think I can see more than 3 films (at
> the most).
> > 
> > The list of Japanese films being shown can be found
> here:
> > http://www.viff.org/tixSYS/2009/filmguide/Country/JJ
> > 
> > The only one I've decided on is the new Koreeda
> film, _Air Doll_. It is described as "surprising,"
> so I don't know what to think of that, but being a fan
> of his other films I've put it on my list.
> > 
> > Those of you in the know: can you recommend which are
> worth seeing, and which are not? In your opinion anyway? Any
> standouts? You can reply to me off-list, or if you think
> your reply will be of interest to others, please feel free
> to reply to the whole list.
> > 
> > The ones I'm particularly curious about are
> _Kamui_ (is it really the best ninja movie ever, or is this
> just fanspeak??) and the anime coproduction, _McDull..._.
> But I'm open to all other suggestions.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Melek
> > 
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