The Cove

[Alex Zahlten]

Hi,

I was recently invited to an informal screening of the film, organized by one of the employees of the distributor in Japan. She talked about the barrage of threatening phone calls they have received - her boss told her not to stand too close to the tracks when she is on a platform at the train station.

One other reason that several theaters have backed out may be that the film itself is not one most people will want to defend- it has obvious problems in its approach both to documentary and to Japan. While most people will agree that everyone should be allowed to make up their own mind about the film, there will probably be a lot less people wanting to define themselves as "pro-The Cove".

Which means that it more or less boils down to a business decision; I agree that probably the film will eventually be shown somewhere, and probably make that theater quite a bit of money.

Alex







-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 18:48:14 +0900
> Von: Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
> An: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Betreff: Re: The Cove

> The Asahi has been following the story of The Cove rather closely and  
> has a somewhat long article in today's yukan (in Japanese):
> 
> http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0605/TKY201006050158.html
> 
> It includes comments from Koreeda Hirokazu and Mori Tatsuya. Koreeda  
> strongly criticizes the film, but like Mori, strongly supports the  
> screening of the movie.
> 
> 
> Aaron Gerow
> Associate Professor
> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
> Yale University
> 53 Wall Street, Room 316
> PO Box 208363
> New Haven, CT 06520-8363
> USA
> Phone: 1-203-432-7082
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> e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu
> site: www.aarongerow.com
> 
> 

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