[KineJapan] Fw: The FAR EAST FILM FESTIVAL 18 hosts BEYOND GODZILLA, a retrospective of 10 films dedicated to Japanese Sci-Fi. Special guest the cult director Obayash

Tue Apr 19 18:40:13 EDT 2016

Dear KineJapaners,The line-up for Udine FEFF is announced. I see that Mark Schilling has another of his Japanese retrospectives of popular cinema, this time on science fiction, 'Beyond Godzilla', to be accompanied with the customary book to add to his series.  Unfortunately I can't make it this year due to family commitments. Pity.  Presumably the work of TSUBURAYA Eiji will figure strongly in the ten films.Roger

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BEYOND GODZILLA
THE MIND-BLOWING ALTERNATIVE FUTURES
OF JAPANESE CINEMAFEFF 18 hosts a retrospective of 10 films, a book and a guest of honour: Obayashi Nobuhiko, grandmaster of Japanese Sci-Fi who, on the 25th of April, will be receiving the Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement.  Press release of the 18th of April, 2016
For immediate release UDINE – Though 'Japanese Science Fiction' usually makes us Westerners think of Godzilla, the eighteenth edition of the Far East Film Festival is ready to expand our horizons with a retrospective called - not coincidentally - Beyond Godzilla - The Mind-Blowing Alternative Futures of Japanese cinema! Curated by expert Mark Schilling, who also edited the book of the same name created for the occasion and beautifully illustrated by Francesca Ghermandi, Beyond Godzilla consists of 10 films and will bring to Udine a grandmaster of Japanese Sci-Fi: Obayashi Nobuhiko (born 1938), the visionary director who on the 25th of April will receive the Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement in the company of his cult film House."Fans,” writes Mark Schilling, “have long considered Japan a science fiction cinematic superpower, especially as regards one specific sub-genre – monster movies – and one character: Godzilla. In fact, the Japanese science fiction films of the Fifties and Sixties, which were packed full of space rockets, UFOs and all kinds of exotic weapons and gadgets, may have been inspired by Hollywood's alien invasion films, but their unique style, their energy and their imagination have influenced not only Japanese animators and directors, but also their counterparts in the West."So get ready for the fantastic (because they really are!) 10: The Mysterians (1957), Matango (1963), Invasion of the Astro Monster (1965) and Latitude Zero (1969) by Honda Ishiro, House (1977), School in the Crosshairs (1981), Exchange Students (1982) and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983) by Obayashi Nobuhiko, Blue Christmas (1978) by Okamoto Kihachi and, as the icing on the cake, Gamera 3 (1999) by Kaneko Shusuke. A wide-ranging exploration of the Japanese imagination which doesn't just stop at that “big scaly beast”' (as Schilling calls Godzilla!) or at our laziness as viewers.But why don't we let our guest of honour, Mr. Obayashi (who thanks to FEFF 18 finally returns to Italy - he directed several TV commercials here in the seventies) speak for himself, in a few short phrases which summarise an entire cinematic philosophy: "Imagining the moon is better than walking on its surface. Films are a way of remembering, not of recording. I like documentaries because they seek to reveal the truth about a subject without fully succeeding and I think the irony of this is very interesting. There's a sort of unrequited love about documentaries, while films are a pure falling in love that asks for nothing in return. It is a one-sided love."The same love that, since the 10th of April, 1999, has been motivating Fareasters from all over the world to return to the little outpost of Asia called Udine! So make a date at the Teatro Nuovo, the historic home of the FEFF, and wait for the 2016 festival trailer directed by Johnnie To officially get the party started. Press Office/Far East Film Festival 18
Gianmatteo Pellizzari & Ippolita Nigris Cosattini
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