Open Cinema @ Ebisu Garden Place

summer_0810.jpgEBISU Garden Place Open Cinema Summer 2003, Jul 19 to Aug 31, 2003 – 4th Edition

Venue: Yebisu Garden Place Central Plaza between Mitsukoshi & YGB Tower
Time: From 19:00 (event will be cancelled on stormy rainy nights)
Charges: Free
Access: JR Yamanote Line or Subway Hibiya Line to Ebisu followed by 10mins walk on the sky walk escalator

Links:
Gardenplace.co.jp: Schedule, Tel: 03-5423-7111.

Date, Movie Title and details:

7/19 Fri – Life of Wine Colour/ Lautrec – 128 mins, 1998, France, Spain
7/20 Sat – I shot Andy Warhol – 105 mins, 1995, USA
7/21 Sun – Jazz Seen/Jazz through the camera – 80 mins, 2001, Germany
7/25 Fri – Gattaca – 106mins, 1997, USA
7/26 Sat – Austin Powers – 95mins, 1997, USA
7/27 Sun – Swallow Tail – 149 mins, 1997, Japan
8/1 Fri – Age of Innocence – 138 mins, 1993, USA
8/2Sat – Bridget Jone’s Diary – 97 mins, 2001, UK
8/3 Sun – Red Dragon – 125 mins, 2002, USA
8/8Fri – The Wings of the Dove – 101 mins, 1997, UK
8/9 Sat – Taylor of Panama – 110 mins, 2001, USA
8/10 Sun – Malena – 92 mins, 2000, USA/Italy
8/11 Mon – Gladiator – 155 mins, 2000, USA
8/12 Tues – Oh! Thou Brothers – 108 mins, 2000, USA
8/13 Wed – Sweet and Low Down – 95 min, 2000, USA
8/14Thur – In between Calmness & Passion – 124 mins, 2001, Japan
8/15Fri – The Road Home – 89 mins, 2000, China/USA
8/16Sat – Castaway – 144 mins, 2000, USA
8/17Sun – Snow that falls on the Cider Tree – 128 mins, 1999, USA
8/22 Fri – Nuovo Cinema Paradiso – 175mins, 1989, Italy/France, Complete original version
8/24 Sat – Easy Rider – 95mins, 1969, USA
8/25 Sun – Pianist on the Sea – 125 mins, 1999, USA/Italy
8/29 Fri – Notting Hill – 123 mins, 1999, USA
8/30 Sat – Lilo & Stitch – 86 mins, 2002, USA
8/31 Sun – Charlie’s Angels – 98 mins, 2000, USA, Collector’s Edition

2 + 2 = 5

radiohead-6.jpg2 + 2 = 5: The first song of Radiohead’s Hail To the Thief. Is Thom Yorke a living genius? How a song can reach so deep in emotions? Thanks for those few minutes of pure sensations….

Sit down, close your eyes, listen and think….

Tokyo Fist

Tokyo Fist – Tsukamoto Shinya – japan, 1995.
One japanese movie which left a strong print in my head. While watching it, I’ve been often chocked by the violence of the images, but it deserves a message.

The ambition of Tsukamoto is to present an extremist alternative to the current japanese society. By taking Tokyo as a symbol of this power that crushes men and souls, making them ravel like zombies between gigantic, secular buildings, He’s attacking, his own way, this violent liberal society by proposing a counter-current ever more violent, but definitively more human: the pain. Thanks to pain, one takes again conscience of his body, body which has tendency to become not more than a support for the brain without another interest than to be used to move it from one place to another. But it goes further in its expose: not only one takes again conscience of his body by the pain (brought here by boxing), but also of his soul which was no longer reflecting the deep identity of the individual. (via Cinemasie.com, part translated in english).

The movie is not entertainement, and is a highly personal view on the interaction of human beings and the city of Tokyo. I like this in a movie where the director is not compromizing to express what he wants.