The NBC television network will extend its live coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony to IMAX locations nationwide on Friday, July 26. This is the first time the global event will be presented live in IMAX.
This will be the first-ever Summer Olympics opening ceremony not held in a stadium. The organizers are turning one of the world’s most famous waterways, the River Seine, into the world’s biggest theatrical stage.
Instead of walking into a stadium, a four-mile-long flotilla of nearly 100 boats will carry thousands of athletes from more than 200 countries past hundreds of thousands of spectators seated on the banks of the Seine.
The river parade will follow the course of the Seine past the iconic sites of Paris, from Austerlitz Bridge, beside the Jardin des Plantes, crossing through central Paris and finishing in front of the Trocadéro, where the final elements of the show and ceremony will take place.
This will be the first-ever Summer Olympics opening ceremony not held in a stadium. The organizers are turning one of the world’s most famous waterways, the River Seine, into the world’s biggest theatrical stage.
Instead of walking into a stadium, a four-mile-long flotilla of nearly 100 boats will carry thousands of athletes from more than 200 countries past hundreds of thousands of spectators seated on the banks of the Seine.
The river parade will follow the course of the Seine past the iconic sites of Paris, from Austerlitz Bridge, beside the Jardin des Plantes, crossing through central Paris and finishing in front of the Trocadéro, where the final elements of the show and ceremony will take place.
- 3/22/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
Shinya Tsukamoto's Vital and A Snake of June are playing on Mubi in the United States in the double bill The Human Extremes of Shinya Tsukamoto.Top: A Snake of June. Above: Vital. Shinya Tsukamoto has explored the full spectrum of human darkness over his four decades of filmmaking, including the raw nihilism of 1989’s Tetsuo: Iron Man, the desperate grief of 1998’s Bullet Ballet, and the paralyzing pacifism of 2018’s Killing, just to name a few select examples. And yet the director is usually only associated with the violence and surrealism of the earlier films, particularly edgelord employee pick Tetsuo. What’s often overlooked by fans is that these earlier films stem from the same fascinations foregrounded in his later, more restrained works like Killing (2018) and Fires on the Plain (2014): abject corporeality amid environments molding us as much as we exist in them, and ontological explorations of breaking through those constraints.
- 11/19/2020
- MUBI
Arrow Video is excited to announce the July slate of titles on their subscription-based Arrow Video Channel, including acclaimed undead comedy Zombie for Sale and Gamera: The Complete Collection, all twelve films starring mankind’s greatest defender: a fire-breathing mutant turtle.
An infectiously funny slice of modern Korean cinema where Train to Busan, The Quiet Family and Warm Bodies collide to create Zombie for Sale, a memorable rom-zom-com from debut director Lee Min-jae. For the first time ever, fans can trace the decades-long evolution of Gamera, from the “friend of all children” in his more light-hearted earlier films, to the Guardian of the Universe in the groundbreaking 1990s reboot series, often hailed as three of the best kaiju films ever made.
Zombie for Sale and Gamera: The Complete Collection will be available July 1st on the Arrow Video Channel in the Us and the UK. Additional new titles available July 1st include Creepshow 2,...
An infectiously funny slice of modern Korean cinema where Train to Busan, The Quiet Family and Warm Bodies collide to create Zombie for Sale, a memorable rom-zom-com from debut director Lee Min-jae. For the first time ever, fans can trace the decades-long evolution of Gamera, from the “friend of all children” in his more light-hearted earlier films, to the Guardian of the Universe in the groundbreaking 1990s reboot series, often hailed as three of the best kaiju films ever made.
Zombie for Sale and Gamera: The Complete Collection will be available July 1st on the Arrow Video Channel in the Us and the UK. Additional new titles available July 1st include Creepshow 2,...
- 6/26/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto. Review: Adam Wing. Mental instability takes a deadly turn in Shinya Tsukamoto’s Kotoko, the only Japanese film to win the Best Film Award in the Orrizonti of the Venice Film Festival. Tsukamoto is best known around the world for his first two entries in the Tetsuo series, with Tokyo Fist, Bullet Ballet and A Snake of June cementing his name in cult legend. His latest surreal nightmare is available in the UK this month courtesy of Third Window Films. Cocco – a well-known Japanese folk singer – performed the closing theme tune for his 2004 film, Vital. She takes centre stage in Kotoko, playing a young single mother with unrestrained reality issues. Cocco also provides the soundtrack for Kotoko, a move that might be considered self-indulgent by some, especially when you consider the amount of time she spends singing and dancing on screen. Tsukamoto’s latest comes with a fascinating concept,...
- 10/8/2012
- 24framespersecond.net
Japanese auteur and cult favourite Shinya Tsukamoto returns with “Kotoko”, combining the apocalyptic style of his classic “Tetsuo” films with the monstrous and terrifyingly intimate tale of a young single mother losing her mind in hallucinogenic and violent fashion. Taking on the difficult lead role is singer and songwriter Cocco, who previously worked with Tsukamoto back in 2004, providing the lead song for his morbidly beautiful “Vital”, and who here also co-scripted with the director as well as providing Art Direction and music. In addition to writing and directing, Tsukamoto also served as producer and editor, as well as playing one of the lead roles himself, adding a fascinatingly personal and artistic dimension to the film. Coco plays the titular Kotoko, a single mother who struggles to take care of herself and her new born child. Tormented by frightening visions and often seeing hostile doubles of the people she meets, she...
- 10/1/2012
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
Kotoko
Directed by Shin’ya Tsukamoto
Written by Shin’ya Tsukamoto
2011, Japan
Festival veteran, Japanese Diy master, Shinya Tsukamoto has earned a devoted cult following for his unnerving explorations of the junction between body and technology, most notably as seen in his Tetsuo films. Kotoko serves as both a union of themes explored in his previous movies, while investing his lead with some psychological depth. Now the genre master delves beyond the flesh and into the mind, in this case that of a single mother suffering from Postpartum depression- a serious form of clinical depression which can affect women, typically after childbirth. Symptoms include fatigue, insomnia, reduced libido, bodily harm, anxiety, and irritability. It’s unclear when Kotoko’s illness began, but it appears to be getting increasingly worse as our protagonists explains in a voice over that, “she cuts herself not because she wants to die but to see...
Directed by Shin’ya Tsukamoto
Written by Shin’ya Tsukamoto
2011, Japan
Festival veteran, Japanese Diy master, Shinya Tsukamoto has earned a devoted cult following for his unnerving explorations of the junction between body and technology, most notably as seen in his Tetsuo films. Kotoko serves as both a union of themes explored in his previous movies, while investing his lead with some psychological depth. Now the genre master delves beyond the flesh and into the mind, in this case that of a single mother suffering from Postpartum depression- a serious form of clinical depression which can affect women, typically after childbirth. Symptoms include fatigue, insomnia, reduced libido, bodily harm, anxiety, and irritability. It’s unclear when Kotoko’s illness began, but it appears to be getting increasingly worse as our protagonists explains in a voice over that, “she cuts herself not because she wants to die but to see...
- 10/14/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
After a trip back to his roots with Tetsuo: The Bullet Man it would appear that Japan's Shinya Tsukamoto is returning to the sort of dark drama that has marked more recent works like Vital.The story of a single mother who suffers from double vision; caring for her baby is a nerve-wrecking task that eventually leads her to a nervous breakdown. She is suspected of being a child abuser when things get out of control and her baby is taken away.Anyone worried that a suspected child abuse drama would turn into a two-hankie weepie melodrama in Tsukamoto's hands need only look at the still above to allay those fears. I don't know about child abuse but someone has clearly been abusing Tsukamoto's face. Two...
- 8/16/2011
- Screen Anarchy
If the nineties were the years which marked the return of Japanese cinema on the international film circuit, introducing and establishing numerous directors working in various genres who, in most cases, connected with a larger foreign than domestic audience, then the following decade could be described as an about face. Japanese films began dominating box office scores for the first time in over thirty years, with films by confirmed directors as well as emerging talents; in both cases, many of these films, and their directors, would remain within the country. Some would on occasion be screened in festivals, but fewer still were distributed abroad theatrically.
Between 2000 and 2009, some of Japan’s auteurs saw their fortunes change, either through the inability to continue making films building on, or making a relevant break with, their previous output, as with Takeshi Kitano, whose Zatoichi stands out among of a series of daring and flawed experiments,...
Between 2000 and 2009, some of Japan’s auteurs saw their fortunes change, either through the inability to continue making films building on, or making a relevant break with, their previous output, as with Takeshi Kitano, whose Zatoichi stands out among of a series of daring and flawed experiments,...
- 1/18/2010
- MUBI
Excuse me while I jab a magnificent fist into the air and strike this breathtaking pose. Indulge me, because being away for the past two weeks covering Sfiff had prevented me from noticing awesome news a-happenin'. And yes, this is awesome news indeed.
On Wednesday, Screen Daily broke the news that a third installment of Tetsuo: The Iron Man is in the works, currently called Tetsuo Project. Not only that, but apparently it's already finished shooting, and a cut is being rushed to Cannes for buyers. Yeah, like the festival wasn't already mindblowing enough. Dammit.
The pic above is a promotional image for the film, which shows its star Eric Bossick in his half-machine make-up.
I began my love affair with Shinya Tsukamoto in high school, when I first discovered the original Tetsuo on video. It was a mesmerizing work of art for the younger and more reckless me: there it was,...
On Wednesday, Screen Daily broke the news that a third installment of Tetsuo: The Iron Man is in the works, currently called Tetsuo Project. Not only that, but apparently it's already finished shooting, and a cut is being rushed to Cannes for buyers. Yeah, like the festival wasn't already mindblowing enough. Dammit.
The pic above is a promotional image for the film, which shows its star Eric Bossick in his half-machine make-up.
I began my love affair with Shinya Tsukamoto in high school, when I first discovered the original Tetsuo on video. It was a mesmerizing work of art for the younger and more reckless me: there it was,...
- 5/8/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
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