Tokyo film festival featuring special screening for wall-E

noreply@blogger.com (onlyme) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:54:00 +0000

recently heard news about this:

TOKYO -- The Vincent Cassel starrer "Public Enemy Number One," U.S. entry "Half-Life" and the world premiere of Ivy Ho's "Claustrophobia" will be among the 15 titles vying for the top prize at next month's Tokyo International Film Festival.

Organizers took the wraps off the full lineup for what they promise will be an environmentally themed 21st edition Thursday, revealing Disney/Pixar's "WALL-E" as their closing-night film.

The animated hit, scheduled to open in Japan in December, will bookend the fest with John Woo's third century war epic "Red Cliff," previously scheduled to raise the TIFF curtain Oct. 18.

Oscar winner Jon Voight has been tapped to lead a competition jury rounded out by Chinese director Huo Jianqi ("Nuan"), U.S. producer Michael Gruskoff ("Young Frankenstein"), Brazilian cinematographer Cesar Charlone ("City of God"), Japanese actress Fumi Dan and screenwriter Koji Takada.

Other titles in the competition section, chosen from 690 entries, include Jerzy Skolimowski's Cannes entry "4 Nights With Anna," Ebrahim Forouzesh's "Hamoon and Darya" and the world premieres of Japanese titles "Echo of Silence" from Atsuro Watabe and "School Days With a Pig" by Tetsu Maeda, who appeared as a guest at Thursday's press event.

The TIFFCOM market, set for Oct. 22-24, will see 172 exhibitors, evenly split between overseas and domestic companies, giving the event its most international character yet.

"TIFF is still in its early stages compared with more established festivals such as Berlin, Cannes and Venice, so we have a lot of growing to do," said Hideyuki Takai, president of organizer UniJapan, the country's film industry lobby.

A list of Tokyo film festival titles follows:

Competition
"4 Nights With Anna," Jerzy Skolimowski
"Claustrophobia," Ivy Ho (world premiere)
"Echo of Silence," Atsuro Watabe (world premiere)
"Half-Life," Jennifer Phang (international premiere)
"Hamoon and Darya," Ebrahim Forouzesh (international premiere)
"Mid-August Lunch," Gianni Di Gregorio
"Ocean," Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov (international premiere)
"Planet Carlos," Andreas Kannengiefer (international premiere)
"Public Enemy Number One," Jean-Francois Richet
"School Days with a Pig," Tetsu Maeda (world premiere)
"Sing for Darfur," Johan Kramer (international premiere)
"Super Typhoon," Feng Xiaoning (world premiere)
"Tulpan," Sergey Dvortsevoy
"Under the Tree," Garin Nugroho
"With a Little Help From Myself," Francois Dupeyron

Special screenings
"Red Cliff," John Woo
"The Shonen Merikensack," Kankuro Kudo
"The Other Boleyn Girl," Justin Chadwick
"Blindness," Fernando Meirelles
"Penguins in the Sky-Asahiyama Zoo," Masahiko Makino (world premiere)
"D-War," Shim Hyung-rae
"Journey to the Center of the Earth," Eric Brevig
"The Cherry Orchard -- Blossoming," Shun Nakahara (world premiere)
"1408," Mikael Hafstrom
"Love Fight," Izuru Narushima
"Stranded," Gonzalo Arijon
"The Homeless Student," Tomoyuki Furumaya
"Elegy," Isabel Coixet
"Assembly," Feng Xiaogang
"Mr. Tadano's Secret Mission -- From Japan with Love," Hisashi Ueda (world premiere)
"In the Shadow of the Moon," David Sington
"Filth and Wisdom," Madonna
"Diary of the Dead," George A. Romero
"WALL-E," Andrew Stanton

Another block-buster from pixar! review of Wall-E

noreply@blogger.com (onlyme) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:38:00 +0000

New from Pixar animation Studios, the makers of kid's classics such as Toy Story and Monsters Inc, is a tale of our not-too-distant future:

starring:Benjamin Burtt, Jeff Garlin, Elissa Knight, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger director: Andrew Stanton ( previously Oscar winner for Finding Nemo) .

The movie follows WALL-E's existence on earth to the day where EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) blasts her way into his life before they take off into an outer space adventure.Within the first half of WALL-E the dialog consists of nothing more than a language of beeps and chirrups created by Ben Burtt, who is known for creating the voice of R2-D2 from Star Wars...

The film grossed $23.1 million on its opening day, and $63 million during its opening weekend in 3,992 theaters, ranking #1 at the box office.

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The story goes like this:

Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class ( Wall - E) has been doing just that for the last seven hundred years.Left behind on a desolate earth by humans who were forced out of this planet for their own safety, Wall - E has been collecting all sorts of knick-knacks.The human race decides to send out a search robot named Eve to check their chances of returning to earth.

Now even a robot who has been denied any kind of contact with anyone else, human or robot, for 700 years is bound to go zippity zee when he sees another robot.Eve realises taht Wall - E has found the path to the planet's future and she returns back to the humans to let them know the good news.Not wanting to let her slip out of his hands,Wall - E follows her to the ends of the galaxy if need be, setting off an exciting comedy adventure

WALL-E falls in love with the new robot on first sight, though EVE could hardly think the same of him. Eventually, EVE warms up to WALL-E and takes to his unique personality. When WALL-E shows her the plant he found, EVE's automatic programming initiates, causing her to seize the plant and store it inside her, activate a homing beacon for her ship, and shut down. WALL-E is unable to awaken EVE, but goes to great lengths to protect her from the elements, as well as take her motionless body out on a date. EVE's spaceship later returns to collect her; WALL-E, unwilling to leave EVE, hitches onto the ship's hull to follow EVE to her destination, the Axiom, the flagship of the human starliners. Aboard, EVE is taken to the bridge of the ship while WALL-E follows her; along the way he runs into several humans and robots, inadvertently giving them a refreshing new lease on life different from their dull routines.

On the bridge, EVE reactivates and prepares to present the plant to the ship's Captain so that he may place it in the ship's holo-detector, which will activate the ship's hyperjump and return to Earth so that humanity may recolonize the planet. However, the plant is discovered missing, and the Captain believes EVE to be malfunctioning. Both EVE and WALL-E are sent to the robot repair ward, but before EVE's diagnosis can be completed, WALL-E rescues her, mistakenly thinking that the repair ward robots are trying to harm EVE. In the process of freeing her, he accidentally releases all the other malfunctioning robots in the room as well, labeling both EVE and himself security targets. EVE tries to send WALL-E back to Earth via an escape pod to prevent him from causing trouble, but WALL-E simply refuses to leave without her. While the two argue, the Captain's robotic first mate enters the room with the missing plant which, as it turns out, he had stolen, and launches it into space in a pod set to self-destruct. WALL-E and EVE recover the plant before the pod explodes, and they celebrate with a dance around the ship before returning the plant back to the Captain.

EVE presents the plant to the Captain. Out of curiosity, the Captain reviews her camera logs and sees the devastated planet, belying the images of greenery he had seen from historical records; in the process, EVE views security footage showing WALL-E protecting her while she was shut down and realizes that she loves him. The Captain vows that humanity must return to make up for their mistakes but the ship's autopilot, aptly referred to as "Auto", reveals that Forthright had instilled a directive to prevent any attempt to return to Earth. Auto stages amutiny, locking the Captain in his chambers and sending both WALL-E and EVE down a garbage chute with the plant, significantly damaging WALL-E along the way. As the robots recover, they realize the only way to repair the failing WALL-E is to return to Earth to his stash of spare parts, and the fastest way to do so would be to insert the plant in the holo-detector. With the help of some of the malfunctioning robots from the repair ward and the Captain, WALL-E and EVE surmount the efforts of Auto and the security systems to prevent them from activating the holo-detector, though WALL-E suffers further damage to the extent that he is crushed. The Captain, standing on his own two feet for the first time, is able to deactivate Auto, allowing the humans and robots to help insert the plant into holo-detector, and the ship makes the hyperjump to Earth.

As soon as the Axiom lands on Earth, EVE attempts to repair WALL-E. Though she is able to restore his body, his memories and personality seem to have been erased, his waste-disposal programming taking over. EVE is heartbroken and mournfully gives WALL-E a farewell "kiss", actually a power spark, which reboots WALL-E's memory. The two robots embrace happily as the humans from the Axiom take their first steps on Earth, carefully replanting the seedling that brought them back, and begin working alongside the robots to restore their home.

This is story about their adventure...

the story has also secret message about glogal warming and dangers about industrialism behind it.

a must watch movie....

Wall-E from Pixar

Tokyo film festival featuring special screening for wall-E

Another block-buster from pixar! review of Wall-E