Fwd: Three-day Japanese film festival at USC

[Mark Nornes]

> Contemporary Japanese Cinema: Outside, Elsewhere, In the World...  
> Athree-day Visions & Voices event in Norris Cinema Theatre this  
> Friday,February 19th - Sunday, February 21st, 2010
> Please use the links below to make reservations for the Contemporary  
> Japanese Cinema: Outside, Elsewhere, In the World film event taking  
> place February 19, 2010 - February, 21, 2010 at the Norris Cinema  
> Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall, USC.
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> SCA Events
> Feb 19, 2010 - Feb 21, 2010
> Contemporary Japanese Cinema: Outside, Elsewhere, In the World...
> Time: Varied
> Location: Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall
> » make reservations for Baton
> » make reservations for Hana and Alice
> » make reservations for Air Doll
> » make reservations for Azumi
> » make reservations for Eureka
> » make reservations for Sad Vacation
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> The School of Cinematic Arts and
> Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative
> Invite you and a guest to a special film celebration
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> Contemporary Japanese Cinema: Outside, Elsewhere, In the World...
> A three-day Visions & Voices film symposium hosted by Akira Mizuta Lippit
> 
> Friday, Feb. 19th - Sunday, Feb. 21st, 2010
> 
> Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall
> 
> FREE ADMISSION. OPEN TO ALL.
> 
> ELECTRONIC RSVPS ARE REQUIRED FOR ALL SCREENINGS.
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> ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
> The resurgence of Japanese cinema in the 1990s dramatically  
> reconfigured the aspirations, practices and reception of one of the  
> largest and most continuous film cultures outside of the United  
> States. This three-day event features films by three contemporary  
> Japanese filmmakers whose work has crossed national borders and been  
> viewed outside of Japan, elsewhere, in the world: Shinji Aoyama,  
> Shunji Iwai and Ryuhei Kitamura.
> Aoyama, also an acclaimed novelist, is the internationally renowned  
> director of Eureka (2000) and Sad Vacation (2007). Iwai, who began his  
> career as a visual artist and a maker of music videos, has enjoyed  
> tremendous popularity throughout Asia, most notably in South Korea,  
> China and Taiwan. Among Iwai's remarkable films are Love Letter (1995)  
> and his dark reflection on adolescence, All About Lily Chou-Chou  
> (2001). Kitamura, who also began his career as a visual artist,  
> studied in Australia before becoming a prominent member of the film  
> industries of both Japan and Hollywood with films such as Godzilla:  
> Final Wars (2004) and an adaptation of Clive Barker's Midnight Meat  
> Train (2008).
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> Keisuke Kitano, one of Japan's most energetic new film critics and  
> scholars, will offer illuminating commentary throughout the festival.  
> All films will be screened in Japanese with English subtitles.
> SCHEDULE OF SCREENINGS
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> FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19:
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> 6:00 P.M. -- Reception in front of Norris Cinema Theatre, sponsored by  
> the East Asian Studies Center.
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> 7:00 P.M. -- Baton (2009), 50 minutes
> Written by Shunji Iwai, Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura
> Set in three 20 minute parts, the animated sci-fi film Baton is a  
> miraculous collaboration between Shunji Iwai of Swallowtail Butterfly  
> and Ryuhei Kitamura of Versus & Azumi. Produced for the 150th  
> Anniversary of the opening of Yokohama port, this futuristic film  
> follows two main characters, Apollo and Michal, who will live side by  
> side on a future earth with intelligent robots.
> MAKE A RESERVATION
> 
> 8:00 P.M. -- Hana and Alice (2004), 135 minutes
> Written and Directed by Shunji Iwai
> Director Shunji Iwai captures the coming-of-age experience of Japanese  
> youth though his vivid portrayal of Hana (Anne Suzuki) and Alice (Yu  
> Aoi), two childhood friends who find themselves caught between love  
> and friendship. Lucid in its observations yet tinged with the hue of  
> nostalgia, Hana and Alice offers an enchanting poem on youth in Iwai's  
> latest ode to adolescence.
> MAKE A RESERVATION
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> 10:00 P.M. -- Panel Discussion featuring Shunji Iwai, Ryuhei Kitamura,  
> Keisuke Kitano and Akira Mizuta Lippit.
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> SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20:
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> 3:00 P.M. -- Air Doll (2009), 125 minutes
> Written and Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
> Director Hirokazu Kore-Eda offers food for thought and a poetical  
> imagination when Hideo's life-size "air doll" grows a heart in this  
> uncommon love story. A touching performance by Korean actress Bae  
> Doo-na as the "air doll" accompanies beautiful images by Taiwanese  
> cinematographer, Mark Lee Ping-bin.
> MAKE A RESERVATION
> 
> 6:00 P.M. -- Panel Discussion featuring Youngmin Choe, Keisuke Kitano  
> and Akira Mizuta Lippit.
> 
> 7:00 P.M. -- Azumi (2003), 128 minutes
> Written by Rikiya Mizushima and Isao Kiriyama, Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura
> Young assassins trained in seclusion emerge with a mission to thwart  
> another civil war in 19th century war-torn feudal Japan. When one of  
> their targets turns the tables on them, it comes down to the strongest  
> assassin, Azumi, to face an entire army. Director Ryuhei Kitamura  
> shows off his ability for extensive storylines, sword fights, martial  
> arts and action sequences.
> MAKE A RESERVATION
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> 9:00 P.M. -- Panel Discussion featuring Ryuhei Kitamura, Keisuke  
> Kitano and Akira Kizuta Lippit.
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> 10:30 P.M. -- Party at the School of Cinematic Arts Complex, Steven  
> Spielberg Building lobby. Food and beverages will be provided.
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> SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21:
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> 12:00 P.M. -- Eureka (2000), 217 minutes
> Written and Directed by Shinji Aoyama
> Shinji Aoyama's Eureka is a serene and resonant meditation on the  
> psychological scars wrought upon the victims of terror and violence  
> and of the courage and inner strength they must find to survive.
> MAKE A RESERVATION
> 
> 4:00 P.M. -- Sad Vacation (2007), 136 minutes
> Written and Directed by Shinji Aoyama
> A damaged man experiences a series of odd coincidences that send his  
> life careening down a path he never anticipated in  
> director/screenwriter Shinji Aoyama's semi-sequel to his critically  
> acclaimed 2000 drama Eureka. Aoyama forces even the uncertain drifter  
> to try and make sense of his own fractured existence when the past and  
> the future come crashing together.
> MAKE A RESERVATION
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> 6:30 P.M. -- Panel Discussion featuring Shinji Aoyama, Keisuke Kitano  
> and Akira Mizuta Lippit.
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> ABOUT THE MODERATOR
> Akira Mizuta Lippit's teaching and research focus on four primary  
> areas: the history and theory of cinema; world literature and critical  
> theory; Japanese film and culture; and visual cultural studies. His  
> published work reflects these areas and includes two books, Atomic  
> Light (Shadow Optics) and Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of  
> Wildlife.
> He has published widely in international venues, and his work has been  
> translated in French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Korean and his  
> articles have appeared in scholarly journals of film, literature, and  
> culture, as well as in national and international exhibition and  
> museum catalogues and scholarly anthologies.
> Lippit serves regularly on juries at film festivals and for media  
> organizations, and has been active in the film community as an  
> interviewer of independent filmmakers and video artists. He remains  
> deeply involved in the intellectual community of Japan, where he  
> regularly teaches, lectures, and publishes.
> ABOUT CHECK-IN & RESERVATIONS
> All screenings are free of charge and open to all USC students,  
> faculty, staff and alumni. The theater will be OVERBOOKED to ensure  
> capacity and the RSVP list will be honored on a first-come,  
> first-serve basis, with no reserved seating. Please bring a photo ID  
> or print out of your reservation confirmation, which will  
> automatically be sent to your e-mail account upon successfully making  
> an RSVP through this website. Doors will open at 30 minutes prior to  
> showtime.
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> ABOUT PARKING
> The USC School of Cinematic Arts is located at 900 W. 34th St., Los  
> Angeles, CA 90007. Parking passes may be purchased for $8.00 at USC  
> Entrance Gate #5, located at the intersection of W. Jefferson Blvd. &  
> McClintock Avenue. We recommend parking in outdoor Lot M or V, or  
> Parking Structure D, at the far end of 34th Street. Please note that  
> Parking Structure D cannot accommodate tall vehicles such as SUVs.  
> Metered street parking is also available along Jefferson Blvd.
> ABOUT THE EAST ASIAN STUDIES CENTER (EASC)
> In 1975, the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences established the  
> East Asian Studies Center (EASC) in order to provide dedicated  
> leadership, coordination and support for the growing interdisciplinary  
> education, research activity, and community outreach concerning East  
> Asia. EASC has been recognized as one of the nation's leading centers  
> for the development of East Asian area studies and is among a small  
> group of elite colleges and universities to be designated a National  
> Resource Center for East Asian studies by the U.S. Department of  
> Education.
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> To learn more about the EASC, visit:  
> http://college.usc.edu/east_asian_studies/
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> This program is generously sponsored by
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> For more information about upcoming programming and events offered by  
> Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative, please visit  
> their website.
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> Contact: Alessandro Ago
> Email Address: aago at cinema.usc.edu

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