Tag: Japan
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Melbourne International Film Festival: 28 July 2011
FILM FESTIVAL: The first week draws to a close at the 60th Melbourne International Film Festival, with a stack of goodies yet to come. We take a look at Lena Dunham’s mumblecore film Tiny Furniture, Sion Sono’s brutal masterpiece Cold Fish and Richard Ayoade’s sublime Submarine.
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Curious announces ‘Norwegian Wood’ & ‘Red State’ dates, 2011 schedule
NEWS: Curious Film have announced their 2011 schedule for Australia and there are some major coups. In addition to the previously announced Norwegian Wood, Curious has scored Kevin Smith’s horror film Red State, Australia’s Toomelah and Jiro Dreams of Sushi.
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Review: The Borrower Arrietty (aka Arrietty aka The Secret World of Arrietty)
REVIEW: Studio Ghibli has already created a number of classic modern tales enjoyed the world over, and debut feature director Hiromasa Yonebayashi borrows from Mary Norton’s series of beloved children’s novels for the seventeenth film under the Ghibli banner.
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First Look: 15th Japanese Film Festival
NEWS: Following the massive success of the 14th Japanese Film Festival in 2010, the Japan Foundation has announced that the 15th Japanese Film Festival will be even bigger than the previous one with Australian premieres of GANTZ, The Last Ronin and more!
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Sydney Film Festival 2011: Day 8
Rolling into home stretch of the 58th Sydney Film Festival, filmgoers showed no signs of becoming weary with the excellent selection, and we take a look at Tabloid, Cairo 678, Tyrannosaur and Norwegian Wood on the eighth day of the 12-day festival.
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Sydney Film Festival 2011: Day 4
The fourth full day of the 2011 Sydney Film Festival saw repeat screenings and new features, ranging from A Letter To Elia to 13 Assassins, and an eclectic selection of other comedic and dramatic offerings.
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Message Movie for Japan
For everyone that is at a loss as to what you can do about the tragedies in Japan, wherever you are in the world, we have a message for all of you to read. Please read this plea, and find out what you can do to send a Message Movie to Japan!
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The Water Magician
One of Kenji Mizoguchi’s earliest works is not only a great example of the art of benshi, but a strong voice for the strength of women in Meiji era Japan. Screened as part of the Bigpond Adelaide Film Festival and Screen Live, we present it here for International Women’s Day.
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Japanese Film Festival 2010: Wrap Up
It has been half a week since the end of the Sydney leg of 14th Japanese Film Festival, and we’re slowly coming down off the dizzying heights of the best that Japanese cinema has to offer us. Is Post Festival Displacement (PFD) a treatable disorder, and if so, can we claim it on Medicare? With…
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A Lone Scalpel (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
The Closing Night of the 14th Japanese Film Festival in Sydney is an adaptation of Doctor Toshihiko Oogane’s bestselling novel. Drawing on the controversial topic of human organ transplant from brain-dead patients in Japan, where brain-death was not legally recognised for a number of years, it is the second film in the festival (after Dear Doctor)…
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