current selection | bach – jesu, joy of mans desire
feelin’ | super
monday. who in the past determined that there would only be 2 days of rest in a week? anyhoo…weekend was coo. this weekend was the new york/tokyo film festival…which i had tix for 2 of the sessions. saturdays session of nakano and ishii movies was sweet. samurai fiction rocked! i thought at first the whole thing about stereo future being a “sequel” to samurai fiction was just a novelty…but now id suggest to anyone to watch the 2 movies back to back. its still not a sequel in the traditional sense, but the segue into stereo future is coo. the third episode of the sf series…sonic four…was however snuffed due to technical difficulties. argh. they instead started to play stereo future instead. huzzah! but then they cut it off after 7 minutes! bizatch! they said that that was all that they were allowed to show (sonic four wouldve been 7 minutes). they then showed master of shiatsu (um…weird) and then electric dragon 80,000v….which i watched with my ears covered. ishii’s on crack.
sundays film fest outing was more for relaxation. they started off with voices of a distant star, which at first looked cheesy, but it was actually coo…pretty provocative. at first it seems like ur avg teenage romance blah, but then a star destroyer flies overhead into space (?!) and then the girl enlists in the space navy and heads off to fight invading aliens(!?) but she keeps sending the guy text msgs to let him know whats going on. this seems like an odd premise at first (m-life its not), but its pretty effective…as she and her battle group fly farther and farther away from earth, her msgs take longer and longer to reach him…eventually taking 8 years for him to just receive 1 msg. evidently, voices was also made by one dude, makoto shinkai, on his desktop. shinkais a nutter.
junkers come here was the next anime up…about a girl, her distant parents who are on the verge of divorce, and her talking schnauzer junkers. yea…ok. well…junkers was definitely coo, in the same vein as hayao miyazaki classics like kiki and porco rosso. even fish enjoyed it! didnt think he would. and the last movie lined up was hideaki anno’s first live action movie…love and pop. based on ryu murakami’s novel topaz 2, love and pop’s about japanese high school girls in short skirts. wooha.
anyhoo…this was the first annual new york/tokyo fim festival. im hoping next years will have an even bigger line-up, more enthusiastic host (i think he drank too much ny-quil), mebbe even a celebrity or two (akiko! akiko!). but keep the venue. damn were the seats cushy.
