Michael Sporn Animation – Splog

– Coming to Lincoln Center Film Society, a complete retrospective of the works of Satoshi Kon. All of his films will be screened, from the first film Perfect Blue to his last, Paprika. Included will be the 13-part tv series, Paranoia Agent, which has not been previously screened here.

The highlight of the retrospective will be a chat with the director on the opening night following the 6:15 screening of Paprika.

The films of this director are extraordinary works that hue closely to live action but remainly, distinctly, animated films. My introduction to his work was Tokyo Godfathers which was another variant on 3 Godfathers, the John Ford film. (As was Three Men and A Baby and Ice Age.)

The complete schedule is as follows:

Satoshi Kon: Beyond Imagination
June 27 – July 1, 2008

June 27
2:30PM Perfect Blue
4:15PM Millennium Actress
6:15PM Paprika followed by A Conversation with Satoshi Kon

June 28
2:30PM Tokyo Godfathers
4:30PM Perfect Blue
6:15PM Millennium Actress / Sennen joyû
8:15PM Paranoia Agent (Part One: Chapters 1-7)

June 29
1:00PM Paranoia Agent (Part One: Chapters 1-7)
4:15PM Paranoia Agent (Part Two: Chapters 8-13)
7:15PM Tokyo Godfathers
9:15PM Perfect Blue

June 30
2:00PM Tokyo Godfathers
4:00PM Paprika

July 1
2:30PM Paprika
4:20PM Millennium Actress / Sennen joyû
6:15PM Paranoia Agent (Part Two: Chapters 8-13)
9:10PM Paprika

Michael Barrier posted a good review of Paprika back in Aug 2007 when it opened in the US. He also had an extensive feedback page on Kon’s other films.

- Speaking of Tokyo Godfathers , it is part of an all animation programming week at Ovation TV. The shows featured this week include Tokyo Godfathers, The Triplettes of Belleville, Spirited Away, The Ub Iwerks Story, Dante’s Inferno (a puppet film), and Wallace and Gromit Go To Hollywood (a making-of documentary).
Check their schedule here.

Tokyo Godfathers is featured tonight and replays several other times this week. This is the schedule:
Today -June 17/2008 8PM 11PM
Wed – June 18/2008 2AM
Sat – June 21/2008 8PM 11PM
Sun – June 22/2008 5PM

- The Annecy animation festival sounds as if it were a good one.

I’m pleased as punch that Nina Paley‘s feature, Sita Sings the Blues, received the prize for best feature. I hope it leads to distribution; the film’s a gem and deserves all the attention it can get.
Congratulations, also, to Bill Plympton for the Special Prize he received for Idiots and Angels

Oswald Iten‘s fine, new blog gives a good account of the festival and celebrates a number of events and films.
This site looks to be one to save; I linked to it last week when I first came across it: Colorful Animation Expressions.

- I tend to get excited when a new, young filmmaker gets some attention with the fruits of their labor – a crisp, new short film. Elizabeth Hupcey‘s short, The Unopened Door, was one of only two animated films selected for presentation in the WMHT (PBS – Albany, NY) film festival. The film will air Thursday June 19th at 10 pm. I saw the film a while back, and it deserves all the attention it gets. Congratulations to Elizabeth.

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