and the final entry in film festival season is upon us: the international film festival. where mostly what i want to see is asian films so it’s much like the asian film festival. good times. if you’re interested in seeing any of the following or anything else that strikes your fancy in their line-up, let me know. i am always looking for film festival friends. especially since i’ve edited this list down from the 37 movies i first chose. there are definitely a lot more movies i’d love to see. i mean, there’s a documentary on al franken’s book tour, pornography from japan and taiwan, a doc on jonestown, a japanese movie about an old gay rest home, a movie with shu qi, carthusian monks, giant buddhas, heart transplants, a film by zwigoff with the other writer from ghost world, and cockbyte.
Wednesday April 26, 9:30pm, Castro
starring zhang ziyi as a tanuki (uh…it’s a raccoon in japanese myth who can turn into a woman to lure travellers) there’s singing and dancing and a love story.
Friday 28, 10:30pm, Kabuki
a japanese businessman with the head of a koala working for the rubbles pickles factory. i mean, HELLO, this has the most brilliant premise ever. KOALA-HEAD. plus, it’s compared in the description to the happiness of the katakuris. the best japanese musical about murdering mayhem ever.
Sunday 30, 8:45pm, Kabuki
diego luna. DIEGO LUNA, PEOPLE.
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Thursday 4, 7pm, Castro
robert altman’s latest picture. need more be said?
I am so excited about Executive Koala, I stopped reading the synopsis on the main site after two sentences.
holy crap, prairie home companion is already sold out. unless you want to go to the party afterwards and those tickets are like $70.
sean: to prevent a repeat of ‘colma: the musical’, i have already ordered tickets for executive koala for 2 so far.
Mario turns into a Tanuki and can change into a statue in Mario 3.
Also, from Wikipedia:
The wild tanuki has unusually large testicles, a feature often comically exaggerated in artistic depictions of the creature. Tanuki may be shown with their testicles flung over their backs like a traveller’s pack, or using them as drums. Tanuki are also typically depicted as having large bellies. They may be shown drumming on their bellies instead of their testicles, especially in children’s art.
once i saw a tanuki use his testicle skin as a parachute.
Claudine and I are both down for Princess Tanuki and Executive Koala. When you’re offering giant animal scrota and murderous Koala-heads, how could we resist?
Every film I’ve ever seen with you at one of these festivals has been really enjoyable. So I’ll see whatever I can with you. I still have tickets for the ballet for around that time, but I can try to switch them to a night you don’t have a movie planned if you still want to go.
ooh, i forgot about the ballet. well, when is it again?
BD, you should buy tickets to executive koala if you want to come since i already got them for sean and i. and christine, are you saying you want to come to all 3?
Also, if you are still debating your other choices, I have heard only extremely negative things about that Zwigoff film.
bah, i spit on the zwigoff. it’s the same night as the princess tanuki which i’d much rather see anyway.
Holy crap. Have any of you watched the music video?
well…the part where he’s peeing on the lamp post i *think* says “ganbatte” which would mean, “work hard” or “stay in there”. that’s all i’ve got. beautiful, beautiful visuals of koala kacho flying around though. thank you, BD.
In the shot after the frog’s doing his laundry, what’s the white thing that Koala Kacho is holding?
dunno. looks like a piece of paper with a kanji symbol on it.