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  • Image Forum Festival 2006

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    Time for this year’s edition of the Image Forum Festival. This year’s Image Forum Festival, an event that always convinces with unique programs, promises to become another highlight for film fans. Shown this time among many other highly attractive titles are the Quay Brothers’ newest effort, “The Phantom Museum”, as well as Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Worldly…

  • New Tales from Earthsea Trailer

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    The Studio Ghibli site is hosting a new longer trailer for their upcoming film, TALES FROM EARTHSEA (out in July).

  • Last Week on Gridskipper

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    Cinemart Roppongi The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts Chess Boxing in Cologne Milano Salone 2006 Otome Road You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • Fast Food Bandits Review

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    There seemed to be a lot of interest in the latest film from Mamoru Ishii, TACHIGUISHI RETSUDEN (FAST FOOD BANDITS), when I first mentioned it, so here’s a review of it in English by Matt Alt. Link via Patrick Macias.

  • Near Equal Tenmyouya Hisashi

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    Just the other day I was posting about the illustrative work of Hisashi Tenmyouya, and now I get word that a documentary on the artist, NEAR EQUAL TENMYOUYA HISASHI, will screen at the Rise X theater in Shibuya from June. It’s part of the “Near Equal Series” that has already covered artists such as Daido…

  • International Portable Film Festival

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    Continuing with the video theme, here’s the International Portable Film Festival, which looks like a fairly ambitious project. Already showing is their “Six Cities” program. The Six Cities project features the work of filmmakers from around the world including Tokyo, New York, Montreal, London, Melbourne and Vancouver. Each filmmaker was asked to create a film…

  • Mirrorball Nippon 2

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    Time to get ready for another music video festival in town, this time courtesy of Mirrorball Nippon, and taking place at everyone’s favorite creative venue, SuperDeluxe. The music video showcase Mirrorball, screened annually at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, celebrated its 10th anniversary last year. To mark the occasion, the acclaimed event will be presented…

  • A Swarm of Angels

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    I’ve been meaning to write something about A Swarm of Angels for a while now. In short, “A Swarm of Angels is a project to create a £1 million film and give it away to one million people in one year.” It’s the brainchild of Matt Hanson, the original founder of the onedotzero digital film…

  • Make Mine Madhouse

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    Everyone, we must all get on our knees and bow to the fine folks at Madhouse. First this: AniPaged Daily reports that Masaaki Yuasa, director of the brilliant anime film Mind Game will be producing a TV series for Madhouse (Ninja Scroll, the various CLAMP adaptations). Kemonozume (Claw of the Beast or Canned Beast), is…

  • GITS Turns into a Movie Again

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    Last week I posted about Production I.G.’s plans to follow-up their GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX series, and it turns out that instead of a new series, we’re getting a movie. Production I.G has revealed in a stock disclosure that the upcoming Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society will…