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jm · #1 Post by jm » Thu Jul 01, 2004 6:23 pm

I don't know how the movie is doing in Japan, but you can get tours based on the movie there.

jeffyen · #2 Post by **jeffyen** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:10 am

LOL This is so cutee!

http://www.japantravelinfo.com/tours/lost.html

adl618 · #3 Post by **adl618** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 5:12 pm

Its doing well in Japan, and got an extended release (second release) in the movie theatres. I was at a dinner with some Japanese friends in Kyoto recently and one of them had seen it twice and all had good comments on it.

jm · #4 Post by jm » Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:12 pm

"[quote:c0772871ec="adl618"]Its doing well in Japan, and got an extended release (second release) in the movie theatres. I was at a dinner with some Japanese friends in Kyoto recently and one of them had seen it twice and all had good comments on it.[/quote:c0772871ec]

What is "doing well" and who said so?
What "good comments" did you hear?"

jm · #5 Post by jm » Tue Jul 20, 2004 7:08 pm

"http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/ ... click=true

In the linked story, "Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle" mentions "how much he hated Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation." Looking at the article will give you no more information about this hatred."

jm · #6 Post by jm » Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:09 pm

"PACIFIC WHIM: Shopping-mall America makes fads of Asian things. "This commoditization of Asian culture," Gil Asakawa laments, ranges from Pokémon to "Asian women...objectified in Western sexual fantasies" to all-you-can-eat sushi buffets where "the sushi often isn't very good, and it just doesn't feel right to snarf down sushi by the handful with no regard to the delicate presentation of a Japanese meal."

New from Berkeley's Stone Bridge Press, Asakawa's [i:9b6af46466]Being Japanese American[/i:9b6af46466] ($14.95) blends pop culture, history, and anecdotes to create a sourcebook that the author hopes will entice "the general JA population to connect with our heritage and start thinking about our identities. (Among myriad other tidbits, he reveals that a founding member of the Black Panthers was an Oakland-bred third-generation JA.) Identity is no cinch. Asakawa, a former country-rock DJ, remembers being dubbed a banana: yellow outside, white inside.

"One of the saddest fallacies that many JAs have lived by since the internment years is that race doesn't matter, and that if we keep our heads low, don't make waves, and just be good Americans, we'll be accepted just like white folks, and that we'll never be rounded up and imprisoned because of our heritage again." All the more reason, then, for Asakawa to have hated [b:9b6af46466]Lost in Translation[/b:9b6af46466]:

"It was so clumsy and stupid about its use of Japan as a cultural foil...such an easy shot; it's like making fun of Deadheads. ...I thought the industry's fawning over Sofia Coppola was ridiculous -- the filmmaking wasn't special at all, and if you watch the extra stuff on the DVD, it's clear she got lucky with the film, because it looks like she doesn't have a clue what's going on and what she wants."

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/20 ... shere.html"

johnmonkey_notloggedin · #7 Post by **johnmonkey_notloggedin** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 10:06 am

Here are a number of articles and interviews which you Frech-literates may enjoy.

jm · #8 Post by jm » Sun Aug 29, 2004 7:31 am

"Scarlett Johansson to star in 'The Island'
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-film ... 10.00.film
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3605904.stm
http://www.backstage.com/backstage/news ... 1000620433

She's in a new Woody Allen film
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/page.cfm?ob ... ethod=full

Scarlett backing Kerry-Edwards
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory.as ... &OID=58281
http://entertainment.iafrica.com/news/343919.htm

Scarlett hot for older men
http://entertainment.news.com.au/common ... bv,00.html"

jeffyen · #9 Post by **jeffyen** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 7:50 am

I don't really care about the gossip, but this

johnmonkey wrote: Scarlett backing Kerry-Edwards
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory.as ... &OID=58281
http://entertainment.iafrica.com/news/343919.htm

is just so important. I wonder when she'll be appearing in the ads...

http://www.moveonpac.org/10weeks/

Chicken · #10 Post by **Chicken** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 2:51 am

Scarlett sure is busy...I'm especially curious to see how Woody Allen will use her. I'm a bit skeptical on the Island, the premise is just screaming Matrix.

Big thumbs up to her for supporting Kerry-Edwards.

hull_street · #11 Post by **hull_street** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:00 pm

Big thumbs up to her for supporting Kerry-Edwards.

I'll second that. I signed up on the list, I'll post on here when/if the spot becomes available.

Did anyone catch the last line of the SciFi article ? Scarlett's going to co-star with Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 3 ! I might actually buy a ticket to see that one.

jeffyen · #12 Post by **jeffyen** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:50 pm

"Today we're launching our third "10 Weeks" ad, "Who Profits," featuring animation by Wild Brain studios and the voices of Kevin Bacon, Scarlett Johansson, and Ed Asner. Check it out now.

http://www.moveonpac.org/10weeks/?id=36 ... FlWL94Dj9A

lost in translation · #13 Post by **lost in translation** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:12 pm

Backing Kerry shows her young age.

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