Eigei Worst Ten 2010

[Rob Smith]

does anyone happen to have the 2008 and 2009 best/worst lists handy?


On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Michael Kerpan <mekerpan at verizon.net>wrote:

> Reading these lists year after year, all I can think is "I REALLY don't
> think I like these guys".
>
> MEK
>
> --- On Wed, 1/26/11, Alex Zahlten <Alex.Zahlten at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > From: Alex Zahlten <Alex.Zahlten at gmx.de>
> > Subject: Eigei Worst Ten 2010
> > To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> > Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 1:07 AM
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > since the worst ten list is what sets the Eiga Geijutsu
> > poll apart from the other more or less major polls in Japan,
> > I think it's worth spreading it around as well.
> > There are, by the way, a lot of critics even from the Eiga
> > Geijutsu poll that don't vote in the worst ten list (usually
> > for fear of offending people), so the pool of voters is
> > smaller than for the best ten list.
> >
> >
> > 1. Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima)
> > 2. Caterpillar (Koji Wakamatsu)
> > 3. About Her Brother (Yoji Yamada)
> > 4. Incite Mill (Hideo Nakata)
> > 5. Tokyo Island (Makoto Shinozaki)
> > 6. Zatoichi, The Last (Junji Sakamoto)
> > 6. Surely Someday (Shun Oguri)
> > 8. Space Battleship Yamato (Takashi Yamazaki)
> > 9. Bayside Shakedown 3 (Katsuyuki Motohiro)
> > 9. Solanin (Takahiro Miki)
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
> > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > > Datum: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:50:10 -0500
> > > Von: Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
> > > An: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> > > Betreff: Eigei Best Ten 2010
> >
> > > The results of the Eiga geijutsu poll of the best (and
> > worst) films of
> > > 2010 was just announced:
> > >
> > > http://eigageijutsu.com/article/181634398.html
> > >
> > > Here they are in English:
> > >
> > > 1. Heaven's Story (Zeze Takahisa)
> > > 2. Doman Seman (Shibata Go)
> > > 3. Kore de ii no kashira (Okishima Isao)
> > > 4. Partners (Shimomura Masaru)
> > > 5. Yellow Kid (Mariko Tetsuya)
> > > 6. Sawako Decides (Ishii Yuya)
> > > 6. Sankaku (Yoshida Keisuke)
> > > 8. 13 Assassins (Miike Takashi)
> > > 9. Sketches of Kaitan City (Kumakiri Kazuyoshi)
> > > 9. Time Traveller (Masaaki Taniguchi)
> > > 9. Boys on the Run (Miura Daisuke)
> > >
> > > You can also see this on my blog:
> > > http://www.aarongerow.com/news/eiga-geijutsu-best-10-for-2.html
> > >
> > > The results are rather typical for Eigei: eccentric,
> > independent, very
> > > favorable to films made by friends of the magazine,
> > brutal on people
> > > they don't like. Confessions, which was number 2 in
> > the KineJun poll--
> > > and which just failed to get the Oscar nomination
> > nod--was number 1 on
> > > the Eigei worst poll (they hate Nakashima there, which
> > I think is
> > > unfair). I used to vote for the Eigei poll, but they
> > have the tendency
> > > to cull out selectors who are picking the wrong
> > films.
> > >
> > > Aaron Gerow
> > > Associate Professor
> > > Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and
> > Literatures
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> > > Fax: 1-203-432-6764
> > > e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu
> > > site: www.aarongerow.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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