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New Shinkai short: North American premiere details

Published at August 6, 2008 in DAMN YOU CANADA, WANT, anime and movies. 0 Comments

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Regular readers will already know about my love for Voices of a Distant Star director Makoto Shinkai’s work, so will understand why I’m pissed with Canadian anime fans right now. Not that the lucky bastards have done anything wrong, it’s just that if they can get to Ottawa this September, then they’ve got a chance of catching the premiere of his latest short Neko no Shūkai (Cat’s Gathering) at the city’s annual International Animation Festival. Like I’ve said before, so far Shinkai has proved he works best in the short film medium, so hopefully it’ll be something special. Check out a trailer I found below.

And while we’re talking about short, here’s a TV ad he made for his hometown’s newspaper. 15 exquisite seconds of pure Shinkai.

Fantastic.

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Makoto Shinkai live at the BFI

Published at June 18, 2008 in WANT, Japan, anime and movies. 1 Comment

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A quick heads up for all you London based otaku - or even those of you with only a passing interest in anime - acclaimed auteur Makoto Shinkai will be presenting a screening of his latest film Five Centimeters a Second at 6.20pm this Friday (20/6/08) at the British Film Institute. He’s kicking off a whole weekend there of recent anime, and alongside his last movie (the beautiful but slightly dissapointing) The Place Promised in Our Early Days, it’ll be an excellent opportunity to catch some of the films I’ve been talking about here over the last few months including Vexille, Appleseed: Ex Machina, the brilliant Tekkonkinkreet and Satoshi Kon’s mindfuck epic Paprika.

If you do make it down, I’ll be very jealous. I’ve been a huge fan of Shinkai’s ever since I saw his amazing one man production Voices of a Distant Star way back in 2002. Even though I felt his first full length production The Place… didn’t show his full potential, I’m excited by 5cm. I’ve got a copy but haven’t got round to watching it yet - it’s actually a collection of short films, marking a return to the short form that he mastered so elegantly in the heart wrenching Voices, so looks more promising. Either way, seeing his glorious imagery on the big screen is not an experience to pass up lightly.

If any of you do make it down there, drop me a line and let me know how you got on.

You lucky bastards.

All details, including film times and bookings, right here.

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Speed Racer: Manga box set and website

Published at May 14, 2008 in WANT, manga, movies and comics. 3 Comments

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To cash in coincide with the release of the Speed Racer live action flick, publishers DMP have released a beautiful looking hardcover box set of the original 1960s manga. That I want. Badly. In the meantime, I’ll just have to make do with staring at the almost as lovely looking website they’ve put up to promote it.

And no, I haven’t seen the movie yet. Hopefully this week…will keep you posted.

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