Third Window Films will be promoting their 4 latest films at the Raindance Film Festival, with all 4 titles having directors over for Q&A sessions and interviews. Fuku-chan of Fukufuku Flats by Yosuke Fujita, The Lust of Angels by Nagisa Isogai, And the Mud Ship Sails Away by Hirobumi Watanabe and Buy Bling, Get One Free by Kosuke Takaya will all play. We'll be bringing you more on these releases over the coming months. Promoting the New Directors from Japan release, all 3 directors will attend the Raindance Film Festival introducing their films and participating in post-screening Q&A events, as well as being available for interviews during their stay. Third Window Films’ New Directors from Japan project was an innovative idea started through a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign with the goal of creating a limited edition DVD & Blu-ray release to highlight young & upcoming directors from Japan. The Kickstarter campaign managed to reach...
- 9/3/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
Following last week’s first wave of programming announcements, the Fantasia International Film Festival has revealed its second wave of programming, which includes a screening of Ju-On: The Beginning of the End and a 40th anniversary screening of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, where Tobe Hooper will be presented with a lifetime achievement award:
“Official Closing Film – Abel Ferrara’s Welcome To New York
Fantasia will close its 2014 edition with the North American Premiere of Abel Ferrara’s Welcome To New York, the controversial latest from the legendary filmmaker behind such landmarks as Bad Lieutenant, King Of New York, New Rose Hotel and the recently re-released Ms 45.
Welcome To New York is loosely based on the Dsk scandal and stars the iconic Gérard Depardieu in one of the bravest performances of his career. Co-starring is the equally sensational Jacqueline Bisset.
Abel Ferrara will be on hand to host this special evening,...
“Official Closing Film – Abel Ferrara’s Welcome To New York
Fantasia will close its 2014 edition with the North American Premiere of Abel Ferrara’s Welcome To New York, the controversial latest from the legendary filmmaker behind such landmarks as Bad Lieutenant, King Of New York, New Rose Hotel and the recently re-released Ms 45.
Welcome To New York is loosely based on the Dsk scandal and stars the iconic Gérard Depardieu in one of the bravest performances of his career. Co-starring is the equally sensational Jacqueline Bisset.
Abel Ferrara will be on hand to host this special evening,...
- 6/27/2014
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
We're back with more titles heading to the 2014 Fantasia Film Festival as well as a few new images and word on a Lifetime Achievement Award for Tobe Hooper. Read on for all the details!
From the Press Release:
Following last week’s first wave of programming announcements, the Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to unveil additional highlights to rev you up for our July 10th Press Conference, where our full 2014 film lineup will be revealed.
Official Closing Film - Abel Ferrara’s Welcome To New York
Fantasia will close its 2014 edition with the North American Premiere of Abel Ferrara’s Welcome To New York, the controversial latest from the legendary filmmaker behind such landmarks as Bad Lieutenant, King Of New York, New Rose Hotel and the recently re-released Ms 45.
Welcome To New York is loosely based on the Dsk scandal and stars the iconic Gérard Depardieu in one of...
From the Press Release:
Following last week’s first wave of programming announcements, the Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to unveil additional highlights to rev you up for our July 10th Press Conference, where our full 2014 film lineup will be revealed.
Official Closing Film - Abel Ferrara’s Welcome To New York
Fantasia will close its 2014 edition with the North American Premiere of Abel Ferrara’s Welcome To New York, the controversial latest from the legendary filmmaker behind such landmarks as Bad Lieutenant, King Of New York, New Rose Hotel and the recently re-released Ms 45.
Welcome To New York is loosely based on the Dsk scandal and stars the iconic Gérard Depardieu in one of...
- 6/26/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
The 18th Fantasia International Film Festival’s second lineup of films was unveiled Thursday, and it features the closing night film on August 5, Welcome to New York directed by Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant, Ms. 45).
Ferrara will be present to talk about his latest film, starring Gérard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bisset. The film was received with warm reviews after appearing out of competition at Cannes and at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
The Fantasia Film Fest runs July 17 to August 5 in Montreal, and the full lineup of films, in addition to the ones already announced, will be released July 10.
View the whole press release of second wave lineup announcements below.
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Fantasia Announces Second Wave
Of 2014 Programming Montreal, Thursday June 26, 2014 – Following last week’s first wave of programming announcements, the Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to unveil additional highlights to rev you up for our July 10th Press Conference, where...
Ferrara will be present to talk about his latest film, starring Gérard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bisset. The film was received with warm reviews after appearing out of competition at Cannes and at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
The Fantasia Film Fest runs July 17 to August 5 in Montreal, and the full lineup of films, in addition to the ones already announced, will be released July 10.
View the whole press release of second wave lineup announcements below.
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Fantasia Announces Second Wave
Of 2014 Programming Montreal, Thursday June 26, 2014 – Following last week’s first wave of programming announcements, the Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to unveil additional highlights to rev you up for our July 10th Press Conference, where...
- 6/26/2014
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Abel Ferrara’s controversial Dsk feature to receive North American premiere at the genre festival, which has announced its second wave of programming.
Welcome to New York will receive its North American premiere as the closing film of this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival.
Abel Ferrara’s controversial feature, loosely based on the Dsk scandal, is part of the second wave of programming for the Montreal-based genre festival, along with the international premiere of Masayuki Ochiai’s reboot Ju-on: The Beginning of the End.
The second wave includes three additional world premieres – Tim Grabham & Jasper Sharp’s The Creeping Garden, Joseph O’Brien’s The Devil’s Mile and Chad Archibald’s The Drownsman – while the likes of Brian O’Malley’s Let Us Prey and Maximilian Erlenwein’s Stereo receive their North American premieres at this year’s edition.
Nicholas McCarthy’s At the Devil’s Door (formerly Home), Wong Jin’s From Vegas to Macau...
Welcome to New York will receive its North American premiere as the closing film of this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival.
Abel Ferrara’s controversial feature, loosely based on the Dsk scandal, is part of the second wave of programming for the Montreal-based genre festival, along with the international premiere of Masayuki Ochiai’s reboot Ju-on: The Beginning of the End.
The second wave includes three additional world premieres – Tim Grabham & Jasper Sharp’s The Creeping Garden, Joseph O’Brien’s The Devil’s Mile and Chad Archibald’s The Drownsman – while the likes of Brian O’Malley’s Let Us Prey and Maximilian Erlenwein’s Stereo receive their North American premieres at this year’s edition.
Nicholas McCarthy’s At the Devil’s Door (formerly Home), Wong Jin’s From Vegas to Macau...
- 6/26/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
The Japanese Film Festival Nippon Connection will take place for the 14th time from May 27 to June 1, 2014 in Frankfurt am Main / Germany. The biggest festival for Japanese film worldwide will present more than 130 new productions in six days, with many German and European premieres. Many filmmakers from Japan are again expected as guests. We can already allow a first peek at some of the highlights of the program: director and script writer Yosuke Fujita, winner of the Nippon Cinema Award in 2008 (for Fine, Totally Fine), will personally present his new comedy Fuku-chan Of Fukufuku Flats, which was co-produced – among others – by German distribution label Rapid Eye Movies and Third Window Films from London. This year's Nippon Retro is dedicated to director Ko Nakahira (1926-1978), whose films can still excite cinema fans with their modern imagery. After taking his first steps as an assistant of such legends as Akira Kurosawa and Kaneto Shindo,...
- 2/3/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
The Japanese Film Festival Nippon Connection will take place for the 14th time from May 27 to June 1, 2014 in Frankfurt am Main / Germany. The biggest festival for Japanese film worldwide will present more than 130 new productions in six days, with many German and European premieres. Many filmmakers from Japan are again expected as guests. We can already allow a first peek at some of the highlights of the program: director and script writer Yosuke Fujita, winner of the Nippon Cinema Award in 2008 (for Fine, Totally Fine), will personally present his new comedy Fuku-chan Of Fukufuku Flats, which was co-produced – among others – by German distribution label Rapid Eye Movies and Third Window Films from London. This year's Nippon Retro is dedicated to director Ko Nakahira (1926-1978), whose films can still excite cinema fans with their modern imagery. After taking his first steps as an assistant of such legends as Akira Kurosawa and Kaneto Shindo,...
- 2/3/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
Exclusive: Japan-uk-Italy-Taiwan-Germany co-production of Yosuke Fujita’s Fuku-chan Of FukuFuku Flats
UK-based Third Window Films has announced an unprecedented Japan-uk-Italy-Taiwan-Germany co-production of Fine, Totally Fine director Yosuke Fujita’s upcoming comedy, Fuku-chan Of FukuFuku Flats, with distribution deals in place.
Naoko Arai is credited as planner and producer, and the film is being produced by Keiko Fujimura of Japan’s TV Man Union and Adam Torel of Third Window Films.
It has attached co-producers Sabrina Baracetti and Thomas Bertecche from Italy’s Tucker Films (they are also known as the heads of the Udine Far East Film Festival), James Liu of Taiwan’s Joint Entertainment and Stephan Holl of Germany’s Rapid Eye Movies.
They are all making equity investments and taking their respective territory’s rights.
The film stars popular Yoshimoto comedian Miyuki Oshima (GuGu The Cat, The Handsome Suit) as the main character Fuku-chan in what Torel describes as “a Tootsie-type of situation where a woman...
UK-based Third Window Films has announced an unprecedented Japan-uk-Italy-Taiwan-Germany co-production of Fine, Totally Fine director Yosuke Fujita’s upcoming comedy, Fuku-chan Of FukuFuku Flats, with distribution deals in place.
Naoko Arai is credited as planner and producer, and the film is being produced by Keiko Fujimura of Japan’s TV Man Union and Adam Torel of Third Window Films.
It has attached co-producers Sabrina Baracetti and Thomas Bertecche from Italy’s Tucker Films (they are also known as the heads of the Udine Far East Film Festival), James Liu of Taiwan’s Joint Entertainment and Stephan Holl of Germany’s Rapid Eye Movies.
They are all making equity investments and taking their respective territory’s rights.
The film stars popular Yoshimoto comedian Miyuki Oshima (GuGu The Cat, The Handsome Suit) as the main character Fuku-chan in what Torel describes as “a Tootsie-type of situation where a woman...
- 10/22/2013
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
As its title suggests, “Quirky Guys and Gals” is another slice of idiosyncratic comedy from Japan, a colourful anthology piece which follows a variety of eccentric individuals about their oddball lives. The film pulls together four of the most talented directors working in the genre, Yosuke Fujita (“Fine, Totally Fine”), Tomoko Matsunashi (“Happy Darts”), Mipo Oh (“Okan No Yomeiri”) and Gen Sekiguchi (“Survive Style 5+”) as well as a series of recognisable faces, making for a fun ensemble outing. The film is available now on region 2 DVD via Third Window, coming with interviews with and special messages from the directors. The film kicks off with “Cheer Girls” from director Yosuke Fujita (whose “Fine, Totally Fine” is still one of the finest examples of the form), which follows Chiharu (Sakuraba Nanami, also in “A Yell from Heaven” and who provided one of the voices for hit anime “Summer Wars”), a girl who...
- 2/18/2012
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
The lovely folks over at Third Window Films, one of the UK's finest purveyors of Asian entertainment, have grabbed a couple of cool little titles from the Cannes film market. The first of which is Twitch favorite, Shinji Imaoka's (Bottled Vulva: Bank Teller Noriko) Underwater Love, and the second is comedy omnibus film Sabi Otoko Sabi Onna from directors Gen Sekiguchi (Survive Style 5+), Masaya Kakehi, Mipo Oh, Tomoko Matsunashi, and Yosuke Fujita (Fine, Totally Fine).Underwater Love has gotten a lot of love here. The film is probably best known for having been shot by legendary cinematographer Christopher Doyle (Chungking Express, Last Life in the Universe, The Limits of Control, etc), it seems to have a lot more going for it than that. The script,...
- 5/21/2011
- Screen Anarchy
It has been a long wait for fans of Gen Sekiguchi's Survive Style 5+. A hugely in-demand commercial and music video director, Sekiguchi stepped away from the commercial world in 2004 to create his manic cult hit, spawning a global fan base waiting to see what he would do next. Answer: More commercials and music videos. Sekiguchi apparently has no particular urge to be a feature film director and quite enjoys his shorter form work and so he has been entirely absent from the big screen for the six years following the release of Survive Style. But he'll be back soon.
Sekiguchi is one of four directors involved in anthology project Sabi Otoko Sabi Onna - Fine, Totally Fine's Yosuke Fujita directs another segment - which apparently revolves around unusual men and women thrown into unusual relationships. Sekiguchi's entry revolves around a housewife who collects and brings home out of work salarymen during the day.
Sekiguchi is one of four directors involved in anthology project Sabi Otoko Sabi Onna - Fine, Totally Fine's Yosuke Fujita directs another segment - which apparently revolves around unusual men and women thrown into unusual relationships. Sekiguchi's entry revolves around a housewife who collects and brings home out of work salarymen during the day.
- 10/27/2010
- Screen Anarchy
The official website for the upcoming omnibus comedy film Sabi Otoko Sabi Onna has been updated with a low-res trailer. “Sabi” is a Japanese word for the refrain of a song, so the title refers to a theme of stories about unique men and women thrown into unconventional situations without any of the usual build up.
“Fine, Totally Fine” director Yosuke Fujita’s segment is called Hagemashi Girls and stars Nanami Sakuraba as Chiharu, a college student who lives to support others. She forms a group called “Hagemashi Girls” with classmates Mamiko (Kumiko Shiratori) and Sanae (Emiko Kawamura), and together they spend all of their time singing and dancing to encourage people. However, when they’re tapped to cheer on a slumping baseball player, their well-meaning hobby begins to backfire in unexpected ways.
From “Happy Darts” director Tomoko Matsunashi comes Boy? meets girl. Aoi Nakamura (Beck) stars as a shy...
“Fine, Totally Fine” director Yosuke Fujita’s segment is called Hagemashi Girls and stars Nanami Sakuraba as Chiharu, a college student who lives to support others. She forms a group called “Hagemashi Girls” with classmates Mamiko (Kumiko Shiratori) and Sanae (Emiko Kawamura), and together they spend all of their time singing and dancing to encourage people. However, when they’re tapped to cheer on a slumping baseball player, their well-meaning hobby begins to backfire in unexpected ways.
From “Happy Darts” director Tomoko Matsunashi comes Boy? meets girl. Aoi Nakamura (Beck) stars as a shy...
- 10/26/2010
- Nippon Cinema
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