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i am trying to remember the name of a japanese movie i think is about 5 years old. the premise was that when you die, you must choose one memory from your life to accompany you to the afterlife. there was a group of recently dead who were temporarily housed in what seemed to be an old hospital or some such institution where they were assigned a counselor to help choose the memory and then film it using old makeshift props and sets, like something from community theater at best. once the memory was filmed and viewed they were able to pass on to the afterlife. this movie has stuck with me for so long but i can't remember the name of it and i'd love to see it again. anyone?
Grizzly Man on Discovery Channel at 8:00.
I have low hopes for V for Vendetta, since Alan Moore comic adaptations to film haven't been good so far, and he's disowned this one. The Wachowsis have some balls, though--this is about a terrorist blowing up buildings in a near-futuristic but Thatcher-like England. It's a really unsettling comic.
Beastie Boys new concert film at Sundance: Awesome! I fuckin' shot that!:
But as the Beastie Boys set out to commemorate a concert at Madison Square Garden, the hip-hop group had a different idea. Why not smash the model?I saw the Beasties once at the Garden and I can safely say that no camera would have survived on the floor during Paul Revere. Maybe they didn't play that song this time.
They decided to lend hand-held video cameras to 50 fans, told them to shoot at will, and then presented the end result in movie theaters in all its primitive, kaleidoscopic glory.
The result of this brainstorm is "Awesome ... ," which will be shown Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, before being released by ThinkFilm in late March. The movie is more than a new twist on an old form. "Awesome" - its full title praising the fans' involvement in the final film cannot be printed in this newspaper - plugs into some of the currents surging through the media and entertainment worlds.