August Cinema／８月シネマ

La Marche de L'Empereur (March of the Penguins)／皇帝ペンギン

(Documentary) (France) (2004) 80 min dir. Luc Jacquet

A beautiful and poetic documentary realized by French ornithologist Luc Jacquet. Following a flock of penguins in the most remote part of the world, the documentary captures their departure from Antartica’s frozen waters for the frozen continent’s slightly more hospitable ice fields, so as to carry on the survival of their species. Penguin love, penguin tragedy, and penguin adventure in the deepest south. Exceptional.

CENTURY CINEMA (YABA-CHO) (Through August)



Palindromes／おわらない物語 アビバの場合

(Movie) (USA) (2004) 100 min dir. Todd Solondz, with Ellen Barkin, Shayna Levine, Richard Masur, Jennifer Jason Leigh

A palindrome is a word which carries the same meaning when read from either direction. Kind of like AVIVA, the name of the main character which is performed by 8 different actors and actresses! To make thing more unusual and perplexing, Aviva is 12, and she badly wants a baby. Her parents are unsurprisingly deaf to her wants, so she decides to run away. She finds a world outside that is somehow more hostile, but also richer in opportunities.

NAGOYA CINEMATHEQUE (IMAIKE) until 8/5 14:20 16:20 18:30



1.0

(Movie) (USA) (2004) 92 min dir. Jeff Renfroe and Marteinn Thorsson with Jeremy Sisto, Deborah Anger, Udo Kier

Are you paranoid? Do THEY plot against you? Are you infected? Or are these just hallucinations of your deranged mind? 1.0 invites you to share the nightmare of a young computer programmer who becomes a guinea pig in a sinister experiment that would make Kafka smirk in his grave. Thrilling.

NAGOYA CINEMATHEQUE (IMAIKE) 7/30〜8/5 12:30




Suite Habana / 永遠のハバナ

(Movie) (Spain) (2003) 84 min dir. Fernando Pérez with Francisco Cardet, Amanda Gautier
A drag queen hospital launderer, a railroad mechanic who plays saxophone, a young man who does carpentry work before dancing ballet. Touching on great human themes such as devotion, loss, and the pursuit of dreams, confident in the music of its subjects' modest lives, "Suite Habana" is a purely organic picture a lyrical document, and an ode to everyday moments, joys, lulls, and tasks.

NAGOYA CINEMATHEQUE (IMAIKE) 7/30〜8/5 20:25



Blue Requiem

(Movie) (France) (2003) 115 min dir. Nicolas Boukhrief with Albert Dupontel, Jean Dujardin, François Berléand

After 3 murderous armored car convey attacks, a society nears bankruptcy and a young man named Alexandre starts a new job as a conveyor for a funds transport company. Blue Requiem is driven by by an excellent storyline, directed by an accomplished filmmaker, stars Dupontel (one of the great contemporary French actors) and is carried out in the tradition of French film-noir.

NAGOYA CINEMATHEQUE (IMAIKE) 8/6〜8/19 20:35




My Beautiful Girl, Mari／マリといた夏

(Animation) (Korea) (2002) 80 min dir. Lee Sung-Gang
Korean animation’s first major internationally acclaimed production is the story of the young Nam -Woo who, in a rut of misfortune, discovers a magical marble which transports him to an enchanted land. Floating on clouds, riding on the back of fantastic creatures, he meets the ethereal girl called Mari, who is changes his life forever. A beautiful fairy tale about the dream-worlds of children and the importance of fantasy to the formation of our adult minds.

NAGOYA CINEMATHEQUE (IMAIKE) 8/13~8/26 10:35


Shakippuri-ten／シャキっぷり展

Short movies and an exhibition by a group of students of the Aichi Prefectural University of fine arts and music, defining themselves as being under the influence of lettuce and shrimp…

8/17~8/28



PTU (The Mission)

(Action movie) (Hong Kong) (2001) 111 min dir. Johnny To with Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Francis Ng Chun-Yu, Jackie Lui Chung-Yin

The Mission is the story of 5 retired professionals hired to protect a local godfather. A Hong Kong movie masterpiece alternating intense action scenes and long moments of idleness with the same tension. Johnny To, as Melville and Sergio Leone before him, succeeds here in recycling old action movies gimmicks with talent, to offer us an elegant, stylish, deep, cold but beautiful object, miles away from the out-of-breath productions of Hollywood action movies.

CINEMA SKHOLE (NAGOYA STATION) 8/20〜26 12:30/16:10/19:50 8/27〜9/2 20:50


Der Untergang (Downfall)／ヒトラー

(Movie) (Germany) (2003) 150 min dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel, with Bruno Ganz, Juliane Kohler, Alexandra Maria Lara

Haunted by the ghost of the Beast, no European movie has yet succeeded in realistically showing Adolf Hitler as a man. Until now. The scene is Berlin, April 1945. The Third Reich is collapsing. Hitler, his generals and his soldiers take shelter in the Fuhrer’s bunker. The story of the Reich’s last hours is told by Traudi Junge, Hitler’s very loyal private secretary, who refuses to leave him behind. Bruno Ganz is a stunning Hitler, carrying on his conscious and delirious incoherences all through the 2h30m of this chilling movie. There’s matter here to meditate on the disasters of the hubris, and man’s propensity towards crime and craziness.

MEIEN CINESALON (SAKAE) 8/6〜9/2 10:00/12:55/15:50/18:45