This year's lineup for the New York Asian Film Festival (July 1-14) has been unveiled, and quite a selection it is. The full press release should be up on the official site very soon (Edit: all you need to know is now at the preceding link) but until then Mubi.com has a rundown of all the titles with (internal) links to info on each film and director. If you want to know which guests will be making the trip to NYC and all the gory details you can read the full text-only press release here.
The list includes Japanese titles that are being co-presented with Japan Society's Japan Cuts festival (July 7-22), which will announce its own full lineup imminently. In short, NYC will be offering a tokumori portion of Japanese film content for more than three weeks this July. Even living in Tokyo, I feel left out. And there are overflowing platters of Korean, Hong Kong, Chinese, Taiwanese and Southeast Asian cinema, too.
I wanted to mention that Ohtake Makoto's short film Dark on Dark - which I translated almost a year ago - will have its international premiere. NYAFF programmer and friend Marc Walkow saw the film earlier this year and good-naturedly berated me for not telling him about it previously. So, I put the right people in touch and voilà. It's always gratifying when I can go beyond just translation and help get good films seen by overseas audiences. Dark on Dark is some of the most curious, fleshiest 17 minutes you'll ever experience. It screens before Tsugita Jun's Horny House of Horror (Fashion Hell, 『ファション・ヘル』).
2 comments:
Hello Jason
I read with interest your comments from a couple of years ago on Gekidan Shinkansen and E!oshibai.
I'm based in London and am writing a book on contemporary theatre. V interested in your account of the stage/screen and hybrid aspects of the work above. I may attend an international theatre conference in Osaka that runs from 7-12 August.
I see that Dokurojo no Shichinin by GS is on then. I've struggled to find info about anything else that looks exciting in Tokyo or Osaka during that period. Any advice welcome, appreciate you may not want/be able to comment further.
Andy - andrewlavender@btinternet.com
Hi - I haven't followed what Geki X Cine has been up to since that entry in 2009 (here) but it seems the concept is still going strong. Bara to Samurai is playing in Kanto/Kansai now but unfortunately won't be by the time you're over. ODS ("Other Digital Stuff") is becoming a growing source of revenue for exhibitors as movies alone often don't cut it anymore. Live sports and concerts, kabuki plays and other contents help fill the gap.
If you're talking about live theater, I don't have any good leads unfortunately.
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