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1.

In-depth review of the Fantasia International Film Festival's first DVD release, a compilation of outstanding shorts shown at the festival over the past several years.

2.

A report on Fantasia Film Festival 2006, discussing issues related to form-content, style for style's sake, and short films featuring man eating cats.

3.

An interview with the director of Strange Circus and The Suicide Club, Sion Sono.

4.

A report on the 29th International Hong Kong Film festival.

5.

An interview with director Tomoko Matsunashi on her film The Way of the Director.

6.

As I said in my most recent Fantasia International Film festival report, the director of “Bottled Fool”, Hiroki Yamaguchi, is a good bet to become the next big thing out of Japan. After making a prize winning short in 1999 at the age of 21 (“Shinya Zoki”/“Midnight Viscera”) he soon completed his first feature film in the same year, “Hateshinai tameiki” (1999).

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On the occasion of Fuon (The Crying Wind, Japan, 2004, 106 mins.) showing in competition at the 2004 Festival des Films du Monde (World Film Festival), in Montreal, the director of the film, Higashi Yoichi, along with principal actor, Uema Muneo, and Yamagami Tetsujiro, the film’s producer were interviewed by Peter Rist for Offscreen.

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Fantasia is back after a one year hiatus, stonger than ever.

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Writer Rist concentrates on the Asian offerings at the 27th edition of the WFF.

10.

Randolph Jordan stretches his writer's arms in his two-part Fantasia 2003 report, using part one to reflect on cult cinema spectatorship.

11.

Jordan uses part two of his report as an extended mediation on Fantasia (and Jordan) favorite Takashi Miike.

12.

Low budget excels at FanTasia 2003.

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Director Teruo Ishii was a featured director at the 5th Udine Far East Film Festival. Curti analyzes Ishii's ero-guro (erotic-grotesque) cinema.

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A round-up of some of the best from one of the more interesting National cinemas of the past few years.

15.

An in-depth DVD review of Wakamatsu's seminal Roman Porno film.

16.

Sándor Lau treats us to coverage of New Zealand's wackiest and most challenging festival

17.

Although there is a fear among film purists where digital revolution is concerned, those of us who study film are more often inclined to acknowledge the benefits of digital technology. For such reasons as the recent DVD-Rom entitled Masterpieces of Silent Japanese Cinema.

18.

Part two of Randolph Jordan's coverage of Montreal's FCMM Festival International Nouveau Cinéma et Nouveaux Médias.

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An in-depth festival report on the fifth installment of the Fantasia Film Festival (2000).

20.

Another edition of the FCMM has come and gone, and I can not remember an edition which featured as many programmers and organizers brimming with perennial smiles.

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The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On is an impassioned cinema verite-styled account of the one-man wrecking crew/dissident Okuzaki Kenzo, an ex-Private of the 36th Engineering Corps who fought in the West Pacific during World War 2. Read review of recent book on the film.

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An in-depth interview with the director of the smash horror hit series Ring.

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The extreme levels of violence found in Hong Kong and Japanese films confounds many Western viewers because Western culture, unlike most Eastern cultures, tends to moralize violence. Read on for a cultural contextualisation of violence Asian style.

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In 1996 James Quandt, programmer for the Cinematheque Ontario in collaboration with the Audio-Visual Division of the Japan Foundation,Tokyo organized the film series, Mizoguchi The Master.


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