Zoe Roellin’s VR animation “Perennials” – presented at Venice Immersive and produced by Meta – will hit the VR Animation Player next.
“It makes me very happy, because it will be available to practically everyone with a VR headset,” says the Swiss artist, based in Italy, opening up about her collaboration with Ryan Genji Thomas and Goro Fujita.
“They approached me because they liked my work with [painting and animation software] Quill and asked if I wanted to pitch a project to Meta. They thought ‘Perennials’ would be a great addition to their catalog, with it being this grounded piece directed at an older audience. I just didn’t expect it to happen so early in my career.”
Sarah Malkin and Yelena Rachitsky executive produce, while Dren McDonald is responsible for the soundtrack. Joe Zieja, Natalie Miller and David Olano round up the voice cast.
“I was looking for people who could be really genuine...
“It makes me very happy, because it will be available to practically everyone with a VR headset,” says the Swiss artist, based in Italy, opening up about her collaboration with Ryan Genji Thomas and Goro Fujita.
“They approached me because they liked my work with [painting and animation software] Quill and asked if I wanted to pitch a project to Meta. They thought ‘Perennials’ would be a great addition to their catalog, with it being this grounded piece directed at an older audience. I just didn’t expect it to happen so early in my career.”
Sarah Malkin and Yelena Rachitsky executive produce, while Dren McDonald is responsible for the soundtrack. Joe Zieja, Natalie Miller and David Olano round up the voice cast.
“I was looking for people who could be really genuine...
- 9/5/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Emerging from the rubble of two war-ending weapons of mass destruction as well as its own barbarism, Japan was reduced to its knees. With a cascade of constitutional changes at the hands of their occupiers, as well as the liberation of so-called “Sangokujin” whom Japan had spent the century systematically oppressing and obliterating, the people looked on in punishment as their country underwent rapid reformation once again. It is against this backdrop Rikio Ishikawa (a soul-destroyingly evil performance from Tetsuya Watari), the son of a country humiliated beyond defeat, the product of the pillaging of a national identity, violently defies salvation as a modern-day Ryunosuke Tsukue in Kinji Fukasaku’s most abyssal picture of his ferociously graphic career; enter the “Graveyard of Honour”.
Following Ishikawa’s tumultuous descent into oblivion over the span of the Japanese Occupation, “Graveyard of Honour “endeavours to plunder the lowest depths of immorality, deliberately finding...
Following Ishikawa’s tumultuous descent into oblivion over the span of the Japanese Occupation, “Graveyard of Honour “endeavours to plunder the lowest depths of immorality, deliberately finding...
- 2/19/2023
- by JC Cansdale-Cook
- AsianMoviePulse
For the second week of September, we don’t have a ton of horror and sci-fi headed home on Blu-ray and DVD, but there are a few releases genre fans are definitely going to want to pick up. This Tuesday’s biggest release is the new Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection in 4K from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, which includes the uncut version of Psycho, and Psycho is also getting its own stand alone release for its 60th anniversary as well.
Arrow Video has put together a Limited Edition set for Graveyards of Honor which features both filmic versions, and both Saw and Candyman are getting a re-release too. Other titles arriving on September 8th include A Deadly Legend and Evil Boy.
The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection
Universally recognized as the Master of Suspense, the legendary Alfred Hitchcock directed some of cinema's most thrilling and unforgettable classics. The Alfred Hitchcock Classics...
Arrow Video has put together a Limited Edition set for Graveyards of Honor which features both filmic versions, and both Saw and Candyman are getting a re-release too. Other titles arriving on September 8th include A Deadly Legend and Evil Boy.
The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection
Universally recognized as the Master of Suspense, the legendary Alfred Hitchcock directed some of cinema's most thrilling and unforgettable classics. The Alfred Hitchcock Classics...
- 9/7/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Kinji Fukasaku’s Graveyard Of Honor (1975) and Takashi Miike’s 2002 Remake will be available together on Blu-ray September 8th from Arrow Video
Two peerless masters of Japanese cinema Kinji Fukasaku and Takashi Miike present their own distinctive adaptations of yakuza expert Goro Fujita s gangster novel Graveyard of Honor, each tapping into the zeitgeist of a distinct period of Japanese history.
Set during the turbulent post-war years, Fukasaku s original 1975 film charts the rise and fall of real-life gangster Rikio Ishikawa. Shot through with the same stark realism and quasi-documentarian approach as Fukasaku s earlier Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Fukasaku nonetheless breaks new ground through his portrayal of a gangster utterly without honor or ethics, surviving by any means necessary in a world of brutal criminality.
Meanwhile, Miike s 2002 retelling transplants the story to Tokyo at the turn of the millennium. Less a direct remake of Fukasku s film...
Two peerless masters of Japanese cinema Kinji Fukasaku and Takashi Miike present their own distinctive adaptations of yakuza expert Goro Fujita s gangster novel Graveyard of Honor, each tapping into the zeitgeist of a distinct period of Japanese history.
Set during the turbulent post-war years, Fukasaku s original 1975 film charts the rise and fall of real-life gangster Rikio Ishikawa. Shot through with the same stark realism and quasi-documentarian approach as Fukasaku s earlier Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Fukasaku nonetheless breaks new ground through his portrayal of a gangster utterly without honor or ethics, surviving by any means necessary in a world of brutal criminality.
Meanwhile, Miike s 2002 retelling transplants the story to Tokyo at the turn of the millennium. Less a direct remake of Fukasku s film...
- 9/7/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Summer will be bidding us farewell but Arrow Video and Arrow Academy keep things sizzling in September, with the release of the greatest work and autobiography of a French cinema pioneer, a glorious 4K Ultra HD debut of a beloved Oscar-winning masterpiece about the beauty of cinema, and a pair of blood-splattered Yakuza classics. This outstanding selection of films include pristine restorations, hours of rare bonus features, brand new commentaries, unseen cuts of the films, as well as collector’s booklets with incisive writing on the filmmakers, and limited edition deluxe packaging and striking new artwork.
In September, Arrow Academy proudly presents an exclusive, limited edition Blu-ray package, George Méliès’ “A Trip to the Moon & Autobiography.” Méliès, a pioneer of early cinema, as well as an illustrator, magician, filmmaker, and inventor, paved the way for animation and multi-media filmmaking. The release includes his boldest and best known film, A Trip To The Moon,...
In September, Arrow Academy proudly presents an exclusive, limited edition Blu-ray package, George Méliès’ “A Trip to the Moon & Autobiography.” Méliès, a pioneer of early cinema, as well as an illustrator, magician, filmmaker, and inventor, paved the way for animation and multi-media filmmaking. The release includes his boldest and best known film, A Trip To The Moon,...
- 7/8/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
The third and final entry in the Nikkatsu Action retrospective at this year’s Fantasia Festival, Gangster VIP reunites director Toshio Masuda, star Tetsuya Watari and production designer Takeo Kimura from Velvet Hustler but the two films could scarcely be more different. Where Hustler was a light, playful film Gangster VIP is a much darker piece, one revolving around a man consumed by his circumstances, fully aware that his lifestyle will consume everyone around him and forced by his conscience to therefore shun any sort of “decent” relationships so that only those who somehow deserve it will be in the line of fire. Based loosely on the story of real life gangster Goro Fujita, Gangster VIP casts Watari as a sort of noble outcast, someone forced by poverty into a life of crime but also someone who has managed to retain a sense of honor and who recognizes fully that...
- 7/15/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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