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August 01, 2004
Weekend Reading
Here's some good related reading for your Sunday enjoyment (some of which was culled from GreenCine Daily):
- Time's Richard Corliss trying to answer the question: "What's Hollywood doing knocking off Japanese horror films?"
- In the New York Press, more on Japanese horror but first up on the page a review of Takashi Miike's new film Gozu.
- An interview with Miike from indieWIRE.
- Also in indieWIRE, a brief rundown of the films screening in this year's Venice International Film Festival. The Japanese films this year are Café Lumière (dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien), Shijie (a Chinese co-production, dir. Jia Zhangke), Howl's Moving Castle (dir. Hayao Miyazaki), Steamboy (out of competition, dir. Katsuhiro Otomo), Izo (Venezia Orizzonti Section, dir. Takashi Miike), and Vital (Venezia Orizzonti Section, dir. Shinya Tsukamoto).
- From the Village Voice, more on Miike's Gozu and Takashi Shimizu's Ju-on: The Grudge.
- Fangoria has an interesting roundtable discussion with Miike, Guillermo del Toro, and Eli Roth. While you're there you can check out this brief news blurb from Takashi Shimizu as well as news that original Ring director Hideo Nakata will be directing a remake of a 1983 film called The Entity.
And if you're tired of all the movie links, check out the article in Time by Alex Kerr (author of Lost Japan and Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Modern Japan) on his home in the Iya Valley of Shikoku.
Posted by brianruh at August 1, 2004 09:30 AM