-
August 12, 2003 •
Film, Reviews •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on Blood: The Last Vampire (2001)
director Hiroyuki Kitakubo The people in Mamoru Oshii’s production training project put together this film. It’s the first computer-animated feature from Japan. Essentially, it looks and feels like a hand-drawn project, only with sophisticated
-
July 19, 2003 •
Film, Reviews •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on Cowboy Bebop TV series (2000)
director Shinichiro Watanabe The advance ads promised, “The new work which will become a genre unto itself will be called Cowboy Bebop.” Shoji Kawamori, who almost everyone thought was a protege after he helmed Macross Plus (a miniseries I
-
July 15, 2003 •
Film, Reviews •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on Branded to Kill (1967)
director Seijun Suzuki Seijun Suzuki didn’t aim very small on this one. He wasn’t dealing with acute little issues. No, Seijun went straight for the big ones here. This is a movie about life and death, and all the tension and competition in
-
June 29, 2003 •
Film, Reviews •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on Zigeunerweizen (1980)
After being black-balled in the film industry, Seijun Suzuki’s dramatic comeback film was first projected in a tent next to the Tokyo Dome. It promptly became recognized as an important movie and it soon garnered Best Picture and Best Director awards at
-
June 29, 2003 •
Film, Reviews •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on Battle Angel (1992)
director Hiroshi Fukutomi Color, Animated A little two-part miniseries about a young female cyborg, whose heart and soul, while expansive, are constantly challenged by her ability and her willingness to create hideous violence. Galli, the diminuitive
-
June 29, 2003 •
Film, Reviews •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on Audition (1999)
director Takashi Miike If you want to get scared by this one, you will be. If you want to be terrified, you will be. And if you’re somehow desensitized to the gruesome things happening in this production, check yourself into a hospital now and get
-
June 13, 2003 •
Events, Film •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on Midnight@Sunset 2003
Intrigued? Afflicted? Repulsed? Join us at Midnight@Sunset just to be sure! LAEMMLE’S SUNSET 5 8000 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood 3 hrs free parking with validation Click here to get your official m@s t-shirt! Last summer we brought you Sharkskin Man
-
June 12, 2003 •
Film, Reviews •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on Akira (1988)
The Gone-With-The-Wind-sized epic of anime. Director Katsuhiro Otomo, basing the story on his own gigantic, decade-spanning manga series (which he was creating at the same time as he was directing this picture!), destroys Tokyo at the beginning of his movie
SmashingMagazine.com
