62nd Film Festival Locarno
I was the lucky one who was able to visit the Locarno Film Festival. This year they had a special on Anime. After a quick look on the program, I decided to go J the reason was simple ... anime movies on big screen in a theatre of the last 50 years and Yoshiyuki Tomino as a guest! I HAD to go! Just to meet Tomino! And guess what! I didn’t only meet Tomino, no Yoshiyuki Sadamoto was also there!!!!! Kyaa, and Ishiro Itano, Mamoru Hosoda and Sunao Katabuchi. They were all there to introduce one of their works ♥♥♥♥
I didn’t stay the whole festival, I arrived like 3 days after it started and missed Isao Takahata! I really regret that >.<. However, the Festival started on the 5th of August and ended on the 15th. I arrived on the 8th and I watched the following movies and events:
Saturday 8.8
TENGEN TOPPA GURREN LAGANN THE MOVIE: CHILDHOOD'S END (2008)
TENGEN TOPPA GURREN LAGANN THE MOVIE: THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS (2009)
(Gekijô ban Tengen toppa guren ragan: Guren hen and Ragan hen, I don’t know why the English titels here are different from the official English title)
Sunday 9.8
Manga Impact Round Table mit: Takami Akai (producer), Jonathan Clements (critic), Luca Della Casa (critic), Mitsue Eguchi (film critic), Hiroyuki Imaishi
(director), Katsuhito Ishii (creator and director), Ichiro Itano (director and animator), Kunio Kato (director), Kanji Kazahaya (producer), Fabrizio Modina (critic), Takemoto Mori (producer), Yoshinari Natsumeda (producer), Maurizio Nichetti (director), Masahiko Otsuka (episode director), Yoshiyuki Tomino (director), Kenji Uchida (producer), Kunihiko Yuyama (director).
CYBORG 009: THE LEGEND OF THE SUPER GALAXY
Tezuka’s Shorts
JIN-ROH: THE WOLF BRIGADE
SPACE RUNAWAY IDEON: BE INVOKED
Monday 10.8
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM I
POKÉMON DIAMOND & PEARL THE MOVIE: ARCEUS: TO THE CONQUERING OF SPACE-TIME
DAGGER OF KAMUI
5 CENTIMETERS PER SECOND: A CHAIN OF SHORT STORIES ABOUT THEIR DISTANCE
TEKKONKINKREET
Tuesday 11.8
MASTERCLASS WITH YOSHIYUKI TOMINO
SPACE PIRATE CAPTAIN HARLOCK: ARCADIA OF MY YOUTH
EVANGELION: 1.0 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM II: SOLDIERS OF SORROW
GANTZ
BLASSREITER
Wednesday 12.8
SUMMER WARS
Meeting a Production Company: Studio Gainax
BELLADONNA OF SADNESS
THE SKY CRAWLERS
CLEOPATRA : QUEEN OF SEX
Thursday 13.8
MUSASHI: THE DREAM OF THE LAST SAMURAI
SUMMER DAYS WITH COO
Art Impact
LITTLE NORSE PRINCE VALIANT
AKIRA
Friday 14.8
REDLINE
Dream Impact
SPACE PIRATE CAPTAIN HARLOCK: ARCADIA OF MY YOUTH
Kawamoto’s Shorts
ROYAL SPACE FORCE - THE WINGS OF HONNEAMISE
PERFECT BLUE
MIND GAME
Saturday 15.8
MAI MAI MIRACLE
After you watched a whole week movies almost none stop … that’s not very healthy, especially since you don’t really have the time to eat something normal. Friday was the heaviest day, I started to watch at 9 am in the morning until 2 am on the next day! I think I looked like that
It’s already one month ago, and I’ll start to write over notable movies I’ve watched J especially world premiere and international premiere ^^ I’ll start with Redline, which will be on theater in Japan next year :)