Eigei Worst Ten 2010

[Michael Kerpan]

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
> > Director of Undergraduate Studies, Film Studies
> > Yale University
> > 53 Wall Street, Room 316
> > PO Box 208363
> > New Haven, CT 06520-8363
> > USA
> > Phone: 1-203-432-7082
> > Fax: 1-203-432-6764
> > e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu
> > site: www.aarongerow.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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