Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Blog on Hiatus / Open Call for Hideo Nakata Interview Publisher

The blog will be on hiatus for a while. Why? Because this month entails:

- Translating a treatment for the latest feature project from the director of The Ants, Ikeya Kaoru (池谷薫監督)

- Subtitling Sanpei The Fisher Boy (Tsurikichi Sanpei, 『釣りキチ三平』). This is the latest film from Departures director Takita Yôjirô (滝田洋二郎).

- Finishing off a script for a segment in an omnibus feature. It's about a very...odd woman.

- Profiles on the four Japanese projects participating in the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum.

- Another project, something big, involving very talented people.

- An interview with director Nakata Hideo about his latest, Foreign Filmmakers' Guide to Hollywood (Hollywood Kantoku Gakunyûmon, 『ハリウッド監督学入門』). I saw the film last week and it's a great little documentary! I interviewed Nakata-san a couple of times in 2007 (here, there) and I'm looking for a good publication to run a piece/interview on this film. Contact me via the form in the sidebar -- serious inquiries only, por favor.

So until probably the end of this month, the sign on the door reads 準備中

2 comments:

Keith said...

がんばって!

artaud said...

oh! Ari no heitai! great movie! wachted it (again) at Wakamatsu`s Cinemaskhole.
Answering one of your past comment: yes, I`m living near Nagoya and Cinemaskhole is like Wakamatsu himself (I had the chance to interview him about 4 years ago...) angy and raging against Japanese people and Japanese Society....
last week they screened 山谷やられたら、やりかえせ!YAMA-ATTACK TO ATTACK....interesting....

best and ganbatte!

Matteo