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pachy_boy
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 Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 6:10 am
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Can't attend any of the screenings, so still waiting for its blu-ray announcement...
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Cutiebunny
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:55 am
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As much as I'd consider spending $15 to travel to SF to see the film to show my support for the industry, I hate the fact that they always show the movie at New People in Japantown. Japantown is one of those places that's so off the beaten path. I either hike, uphill, a couple miles from the nearest subway station located in the middle of the crime infested area of the Tenderloin, or I take a bus (not a pleasant experience in SF) and get dropped off about a mile away from Japantown.
If they're hoping that people are going to come out to watch a specialty film like this, they need to show it in areas that are more accessible (read: Not going to get mugged getting to theatre) for the paying public. But I don't like the fact that there are executives that are using these attendance numbers and drawing the conclusion that no one cares to watch anime movies in the US. Show your movie in a safer, and more accessible area, and I guarantee you that I will show up.
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Pangea
Joined: 10 Dec 2011
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:00 am
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| Cutiebunny wrote: | | As much as I'd consider spending $15 to travel to SF to see the film to show my support for the industry, I hate the fact that they always show the movie at New People in Japantown. Japantown is one of those places that's so off the beaten path. I either hike, uphill, a couple miles from the nearest subway station located in the middle of the crime infested area of the Tenderloin, or I take a bus (not a pleasant experience in SF) and get dropped off about a mile away from Japantown.
If they're hoping that people are going to come out to watch a specialty film like this, they need to show it in areas that are more accessible (read: Not going to get mugged getting to theatre) for the paying public. But I don't like the fact that there are executives that are using these attendance numbers and drawing the conclusion that no one cares to watch anime movies in the US. Show your movie in a safer, and more accessible area, and I guarantee you that I will show up. |
Hmm that doesn't sound very good nor pleasant. Well atleast you can watch it in your country. I'll show my support by buying it when it becomes available on amazon or something.
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walw6pK4Alo
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:07 am
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| Pangea wrote: | | Hmm that doesn't sound very good nor pleasant. Well atleast you can watch it in your local region/state. I'll show my support by buying it when it becomes available on amazon or something. |
Fixed, because the closest showing to me is over 1,200 miles away.
In Japan terms, that's like traveling from Fukuoka to see something playing in Sapporo. What works about Japan is that anything culturally important going on will happen in Tokyo, which is pretty equally distanced between the two extremities.
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Gilles Poitras
Joined: 05 Apr 2008
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Location: Oakland California
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 1:26 pm
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| Cutiebunny wrote: | | As much as I'd consider spending $15 to travel to SF to see the film to show my support for the industry, I hate the fact that they always show the movie at New People in Japantown... |
First runs of Ghibli films are not at New People. They are usually at the Embarcadero Cinema, where this title will be shown starting on the 29th.
To get to Japantown from downtown I recommend taking the 38 bus. I don't know which bus you have been taking but the 38, while very busy, is a good line.
I'll be seeing Poppy Hill in Berkeley, I just have to find out when they will be having the subtitled showings as Ghibli films are usually distributed in both subbed and re-dubbed formats. The problem is to find this out you need to physically go to the theater and ask staff as ads and phone recordings don't usually provide that info.
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yuna49
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 3:02 pm
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Tony Scott's review at the New York Times: http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/movies/from-up-on-poppy-hill-written-by-hayao-miyazaki.html
He doesn't give it a "Critics Pick" but seems to like it well enough.
| Quote: | | Shun and Umi are young people in a country looking forward to hosting the Olympics, but the shadow of war hangs over their lives, much as it did in “My Neighbor Totoro,” Hayao Miyazaki’s magnificent fable set in the 1950s. The specific tragedy that lies in the background may not register with children, which means they will be touched by the film’s sadness without being too upset by it. Adults, meanwhile, are likely to be charmed by the love story and enchanted by the delicate rendering of a bygone but not entirely forgotten era. |
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enurtsol
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 3:12 pm
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Maybe we'll let ya guys know. A group of us are going, including some kids.
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walw6pK4Alo
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 7:09 pm
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TYT's whattheflick just reviewed it, and I find their short reviews to be pretty reliable and favorable. I don't remember them covering Arrietty, so this might be their first anime. I hope the film goes wide, but I'm not counting on much.
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abman136
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 7:32 pm
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| Cutiebunny wrote: | | As much as I'd consider spending $15 to travel to SF to see the film to show my support for the industry, I hate the fact that they always show the movie at New People in Japantown. Japantown is one of those places that's so off the beaten path. I either hike, uphill, a couple miles from the nearest subway station located in the middle of the crime infested area of the Tenderloin, or I take a bus (not a pleasant experience in SF) and get dropped off about a mile away from Japantown.
If they're hoping that people are going to come out to watch a specialty film like this, they need to show it in areas that are more accessible (read: Not going to get mugged getting to theatre) for the paying public. But I don't like the fact that there are executives that are using these attendance numbers and drawing the conclusion that no one cares to watch anime movies in the US. Show your movie in a safer, and more accessible area, and I guarantee you that I will show up. |
The San Francisco location is actually at the Embarcadero Center Cinema, far from Japantown and seemingly close to BART; the one in Berkeley is definitely close to BART. Anyway, there is a bus that takes you right by Japantown (like 1 minute away from New People) from Powell.
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enurtsol
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Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 9:45 am
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"Miyazaki father and son team up for 'From Up on Poppy Hill' film"
- Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki and his Studio Ghibli have, under their belt, some of Japan’s biggest global anime movie successes, including “Princess Mononoke” and “Spirited Away,” which won an Academy Award in 2003.
Far less known, until now, was Miyazaki’s son Goro, who worked as a landscaper for years so as not to compete with his famous father, but later designed the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo and debuted as a director in 2006 with “Tales from Earthsea.”
Now, for the first time, the pair has teamed up on a film, with Hayao, 72, as co-writer and 46-year-old Goro as director, overcoming a contentious relationship stretching back years.
“From Up on Poppy Hill,” which opened in U.S. movie theaters on Friday, is set in Japan in 1963 and focuses on a high school romance threatened by a secret.
Goro Miyazaki talked to Reuters recently about working with his father, a man he was once estranged from.
Q: Umi, the female protagonist in “Poppy Hill,” has been raising flags for a decade for her deceased father. While yours is very much alive and well, did Umi’s longing for her dad stir up anything for you when it comes to your own famous father?
A: The common thread between myself and the character is that the dad was always out working and was never really around. I’d be lying to you if I didn’t say that there were times when I thought that maybe my dad should have died a little earlier, just as the character did. I feel like I can really empathize with a child’s longing for an absent father.
Q: Now that you’re working together, how closely was your father involved in the making of “Poppy Hill?”
A: He said, “I will take care of the planning and the screenplay and everything else is your responsibility.” That was the agreement on the roles. But once we began work, he would come around, wander into the room and instead of talking to me directly, he would start looking at the artwork on the walls and mutter suggestions on how to do things a little bit this way, a little bit that way. He never came and talked to me directly.
Q: Did you have to accept his suggestions?
A: More often than not, his advice really hit the mark. So begrudgingly, I often had to take it.
Q: You seem like reluctant working partners. How long does this date back to?
A: Shortly after I started making my first film, I had a huge fight with my father. For a long time we didn’t talk. He was opposed to the idea of me directing a film. He felt that it would be ridiculous for somebody with no experience to, all of a sudden, go into directing. He would tell me about how much he had to struggle in his days to get to that place where he could have the opportunity.
Q: What helped you reconcile?
A: Having my (now four-year old) son - his grandson - allowed us to start talking again.
Q: Has your last name been a help or hindrance in your career?
A: Both. The opportunity I received to make this film obviously had something to do with the family name. But once you make the film and it goes out into the world, that name becomes a heavy burden.
Q: Because you’re judged by the standards set by your father’s work?
A: I think that is true. But it all comes down to how I deal with it. Until recently, I was very jaded about that whole thing, but now (I’ve turned the corner) and the reason for that actually ties in to my next project, which unfortunately I can’t disclose at the moment.
Q: How similar are you and your father?
A: We’re both short-tempered and also a little bit dark when it comes down to it, way down deep.
Q: How are you not alike?
A: This may be partly due to the different worlds that we were born into and the different generations, but Hayao Miyazaki is an idealist. He thinks in terms of how people should be, how the world should be.
Q: Where does that stem from?
A: That comes from the fact that he grew up in this post-war period where things were changing and people had this strong ideal about how society should behave. Those of us who were born during a time when that society was much more structured already, we can’t share that same sentiment.
Q: This post-war period is exactly the time period “Poppy Hill” is set in. Why do you think he wrote it for you to direct?
A: It was a time that most Japanese look fondly upon as the one time things were just right. It’s after the war and the ravages. It’s that point in history where Japan was able to enjoy a brief moment of peace.
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