Japanese movies at FNC

October 5, 2016 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

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The 45th Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC) will be held from 5 to 16 October and will offer 340 films (including 138 feature films and 170 short films) from 62 countries, document.write(“”); including 43 world premieres. That will include nine Japanese movies. For more information: nouveaucinema.ca.

Press coverage:

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October 1, 2016 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

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(iPhone 6s, document.write(“”); 2016-09-25)

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September 28, 2016 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Petites trompettes roses et mauves
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Annonçant la fraîcheur matinal
— Ô Gloire au jour qui se lève!

(Nikon D3300, document.write(“”); 2016-08-14)

Weekly notable news (W39)

September 27, 2016 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Another busy week spent brooding about the craziness at work (still 555 weeks before retirement), document.write(“”); going to the hospital for another CT enterography for my wife and backing-up my computers to install macOS 10.12 Sierra on both my iMac and Mac Mini. Didn’t have much else on my mind.
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To relax we finished watching Dancing on the edge (Brit period drama about a black jazz band, part mystery and part social commentary on racism), the first episode of Maigret (Brit adaptation of Georges Simenon‘s police drama set in the ’50s Paris with Rowan Atkinson in the title role!!! It’s quite good once you’ve passed seeing Mr. Bean face. Now I understand why he never speaks in his sketches: he has a really serious, deep voice!) as well as the first two episodes of the second season of Poldark (yes, another Brit period drama).

And, of course, I still found a little time to stay acquainted with the affairs of the world. I therefore share with you a few notable news & links that I came across this week (in no particular order):

macOS Sierra is now available to download (TechCrunch)
Grave of Disabled Young Woman Reveals Touching Tale of Care in Prehistoric Arizona (Western Digs)
Un horaire flexible pour augmenter la productivité (ICI.Radio-Canada)
New evidence suggests ancient jewelry at Grotte du Renne cave made by Neanderthals (Phys.org)
Canada’s Top 10 Best VPN Services (Link, Google)
Dropbox Isn’t Playing Nice With macOS Sierra (life hacker)
MacOS Sierra: Top five things you need to know about Apple’s new Mac software (The Guardian)
macOS Sierra: Save Disk Space With the New ‘Optimize Storage’ Option (Mac Rumors)
Activity trackers may not give you a weight-loss edge after all (CNET)
If you’ve ever created a Yahoo account, take these steps immediately to protect your data (Recode)
Top 300 Graphic Novels for August 2016 (ICv2)
James Cameron’s Alita: Battle Angel Film Casts Deadpool’s Ed Skrein (ANN)
Live-Action Ghost in the Shell Film Teased in 3 Videos With Scarlett Johansson (ANN, ICv2)
What the List of Most Banned Books Says About Our Society’s Fears (Time)
Crack the Code on Work-Life Balance (Inc.com)
New Evidence That Cats Sailed With Vikings (Popular Science, Scientific American)
Apple Patents Ingenious Way to Prevent ‘Butt Dialing’ (Digital Trends)
Apple Watch could soon track your sleep and fitness levels (Engadget)
Top 5 Ancient And Medieval Censored Books To Read During Banned Book Week (Forbes)
Walk Now To Stay On Your Feet As You Grow Older (NPR)
Clean Your Cluttered Hard Drive with macOS Sierra’s New Storage Manager (life hacker)
This is the oldest melody in existence – and it’s utterly enchanting (Classic FM)
Ancient DNA sheds new light on early Americans (Popular Archaeology)
Water spotted spurting from Jupiter’s moon (BBC, Mashable)
Doctor Who Spin-off Will Feature Peter Capaldi (ICv2)

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Pearl Before Swine: Friday, May 27, 2016

[Reminds me of someone…]
Ben: Wednesday, June 1st, 2016

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September 24, 2016 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Chaussette à la fenêtre
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(iPhone 6s, document.write(“”); 2016-09-17)

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September 21, 2016 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

L’automne est à nos porte —
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La douce fébrilité de l’été
Bientôt ne sera qu’un souvenir

Laborieuses abeilles sur un soleil

(Nikon D3300, document.write(“”); 2016-08-08)
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FFM videos

September 20, 2016February 9, 2026 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

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To complete our coverage of the festival, document.write(“”); here is the video for the Red carpet arrival of director Yoshinari Nishikori, actors Naoki Kobayashi and Sho Aoyagi for the Japanese movie Tatara Samurai screened at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 29th, 2016:

Tatara Samurai – Red Carpet from clodjee on Vimeo.

And here is the video of the introduction and Q&A for Tatara Samurai screened the same night:

Tatara Samurai from clodjee on Vimeo.

As a bonus I am throwing in the video of Isabelle Adjani’s red carpet arrival at the Montreal World Film Festival on September 4th, 2016:

Isabelle Adjani – Red carpet from clodjee on Vimeo.

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Weekly notable news (W37-38)

September 18, 2016February 9, 2026 / Clodjee / 1 Comment

The first two weeks of September proved to be rather challenging. First, document.write(“”); I was trying to see as many of the Japanese movies shown at the Montreal World Films Festival as I could despite the troubles that the festival was experiencing and the fact that the schedule was constantly changing. Then, my wife woke up in the middle of the night with excruciating abdominal pain and we ended up at the hospital’s emergency ward. They kept her for five days and performed several tests without being sure of the nature or cause of the problems. They found some sort of enteritis to the small intestine and a gastritis. She feels well now, but it is a worrying situation since we’re still waiting for the result of the biopsy and more tests are scheduled. She survived cancer once ten years ago, so we are waiting the results with apprehension.
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It was tiring for me during that time because I had to shuttle back and forth between work (a.k.a the madhouse), the hospital and (once) the film festival. But the beginning of September also brought a few good news: Apple announced some new products as well as released updates, and I got a well over-due pay raise! Unfortunately, there’s still five-hundred-and-fifty-seven weeks left before I can retire from work and dedicate my entire time to my personal projects (like writing).

Despite all this, I found time to watch a few dvds at home with my wife. First, we watch Belle et Sébastien 2: L’Aventure continue. It’s a cute adventure dog movie, full of improbabilities but it also reminded me of the TV series I was watching when I was a kid. Then I watched Gods of Egypt (by myself because my wife doesn’t like sci-fi stuff), which tells — super-heroes style — the founding myth of Egypt where Horus must fight his uncle Set who killed his father Osiris in order to reign over Earth. Horus is helped by the thief Bek, who just want to save his lover Zaya. If you would removed the specials effects from this movie, it would have nothing left of interest…

Finally, I watch Hail, Caesar. It’s a star-laden film by the Coen brothers which poke fun of the Hollywood film industry in the 1950s while managing to recreate several of its archetypes: the peblum movies, the synchronized swimming and tap dancing movies, stunt-filled westerns, etc. The film follow studio manager Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) trying to hold production together while unmarried actress DeeAnna Moran (Scarlett Johansson) becomes pregnant and big star Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) is abducted by a conspiration of communists! Hilarious, beautifully written and an interesting window on the era.

As always I did my best to keep myself acquainted with the affairs of the world. So, let me share with you a few notable news & links that I came across in the last few weeks (in no particular order):

The Osamu Tezuka Story Review: A Brilliant Biography Of One Of Manga’s Finest Minds (Forbes, ICv2)
50 Things That Happened Because of Star Trek (Vanity Fair)
This Maya document, long considered a fake, is Americas’ oldest manuscript (CNN)
Crunchyroll and Funimation, rival anime streaming services, announce partnership (Mashable, ICv2)
1001 Vies: Le 3e lieu, les bibliothèques publiques (Ici.Radio-Canada)
Facebook deletes Norwegian PM’s post as ‘napalm girl’ row escalates (The Guardian) [Note: has anyone thought of asking Kim Phúc Phan Thi, who is portrayed in the pictures and now lives in Ajax, Ont., what she think of this?]
Moving Fantasy Beyond Elves: The Fantasy Genres You Didn’t Know Existed (Geek and Sundry)
64 Movies That Need to Be on Your Radar This Fall (Popsugar)
R.I.P.: Marie-Claude Girard (Obituary at Centre funéraire Côte-Des-Neiges, La Presse+, Monde de Star)
Censure de la photo de la fillette brûlée au napalm: Facebook recule (ICI.Radio-Canada)
Why you feel busy all the time (when you’re actually not) (BBC)
The 40th World Film Fest disaster: In 10 Chapters (Cinetalk)
As LED Streetlights Spread, Some Critics Look for Dimmer Switch (WSJ)
Gaia space telescope plots a billion stars (BBC)
‘Super agers’ offer clue to keeping a sharp memory (BBC)
Want to age well: how about never retiring? (BBC)
Gravitational pull ‘has role in quakes’ (BBC)
Are cat cafes good for cats? (BBC)
Clapham Common Tube station taken over by cats (BBC)
This Is One Of The Best Views Of Our Entire Galaxy Ever Made (Popular Science)
Star Trek: Discovery Delayed (ICv2)
Books That Will Make You Happier: Bibliotherapy (House Beautiful)
10 Best Movies We Saw at Toronto Film Festival 2016 [TIFF] (Rollingstone)
19 Secrets Librarians Will Never Tell You (Buzz Feed)

Apple new products

Apple releases iOS 10, macOS Sierra, watchOS 3 and tvOS 10 GM seeds, Sierra to launch Sept. 20 (Apple Insider)
The 5 biggest takeaways from the Apple event (Mashable)
Apple Unveils iPhone 7 With Improved Camera, Wireless Audio (Inc)
9 things Apple didn’t tell you about iPhone 7, Apple Watch 2 and AirPods (Mashable)
How to unlock your Mac with the Apple Watch (CNET)
iOS 10 review: It’s the little things that matter (Cult of Mac)
Apple Watch: 11 new features in WatchOS 3 (CNET)
Apple just released tvOS 10 and here’s what’s new (TechCrunch)
Sleep better with iOS 10’s Bedtime alarm (CNET)
iOS 10: Release date, features and everything else you need to know (CNET)
Apple works to fit the smart home under a single roof (TechCrunch)
watchOS 3: Review (MacStories)
watchOS 3: Major Update Now Available (MacRumors)
All The Useful iOS10 Features Apple Won’t Tell You About (Uproxx)
Hands on: WatchOS 3 is the OS Apple always intended (Computerworld)

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Dilbert: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 / “Boss Figures Out A System”

[A-Ah! That’s what they are doing!]

Between Friends: Wednesday, May 18, 2016

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September 15, 2016 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

C’est bientôt l’automne et, document.write(“”); malgré tout,
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les cosmos et le tournesols fleurissent toujours à l’avant de la maison

Idem pour les gloires du matin dans la cour arrière

(Apple iPhone 6s, 2016-09-05 et 11)
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Strange things

September 11, 2016 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Some days you see the strangest things.
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Yesterday, document.write(“”); after coming out from the metro station on my way to work, I saw a guy riding a bicycle while carrying on his gloved hand an hawk (or a falcon). Usually, falconry is practiced on horseback, but I guess you have to go with the mean you have…

A few minutes later, I saw two F-18 fighter-jets crossing the sky from left to right. I wondered if it was a good omen or a bad one. I don’t really remember how it works; my old roman (or wasn’t it etruscan?) art of divination skill is rather rusty.

Critters-day pics

September 11, 2016September 16, 2018 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Créatures du jardin : araignées (Araneus diadematus)

(iPhone 6s, 2016-09-05)

FFM 2016 wrap-up

September 10, 2016February 9, 2026 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

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Here we are concluding our coverage of the Festival des Films du Monde (FFM)…

Unfortunately, document.write(“”); only two Japanese movies won an award this year: Tatara Samurai by Yoshinari Nishikori won “Best Artistic Contribution” and Ken-san by Yuichi Hibi won “Best Documentary” (ex-aequo with a Canadian film). Although, there’s almost always a Japanese film in the list of the winners, even if it’s often just a token price. That’s probably why Japanese producers keep presenting their films here and generally come with a big delegation. You can find on the festival website the complete list for the laureates of the 47th Student Film Festival and of the 40th Montreal World Film Festival competition.

If I look back I can say that this year’s festival really had a hard time. Almost everything was against it: stingy governmental agencies, ungrateful chain of theatres, sceptical employees, hostile media, and, to top it all, even a member of the jury dying in his hotel room just the day before the closing ceremony! It’s a miracle that it happened at all. However, despite all this and the chaos that ensued (which affected mostly the scheduling), they managed to keep showing movies (as long as there’s movies, there’s hope) and, all in all, it was a pretty good festival. The public was there. The movies were there . They met at the Cinéma Impérial (mostly, but also at a few other venues). A beautiful love story. The end? Beside this, why bother with all the media doomsday fuss?

After all, it was not that much more chaotic than the previous years (ok, I admit this time there was no press room, no film market with its screening booths, no “5 to 7” to bond & meet with people of the industry, no outdoor screenings, screenings were spread all over town and the schedule kept changing so I could see only FOUR of the twelve announced Japanese movies — but, I mean, beside that (which was an annoyance mostly for the press), it wasn’t that bad, isn’t it?). The good thing with this year situation is that, with only one screen, there wasn’t any schedule conflict anymore! Also, I might I’ve seen only four movies, but at least I saw something and I am happy with it.

However, I would reserved very harsh words (that I would rather not repeat here) for the various levels of government who let down the movie-loving public and, particularly, for the Cineplex Forum (hey! If you were to start showing movies in the end — presumably because you’ve reached an agreement with the festival or felt too ashamed that the Outremont and Park theatres were picking up screenings — why not have accepted from the start and save us all the trouble of the flip-flopping screening schedule! That behaviour is down-right insulting and you will not catch me anytime soon in a Cineplex theatre).

Through all this the press has been pretty harsh on Losique and his festival. All he wanted was to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his baby and they all pooped on his party. In the end, seeing it was rather a success, many rallied in the festival support but it might have been too little, too late. Nathalie Petrowski, of La Presse, was one of the few who covered the festival with a positive attitude from the start.

Amongst her comments, she offered an interesting speculation on the future of the festival: maybe the Chinese firm that donated the prize money for the awards would be interested in investing more in the festival or even buy it from Losique in order to keep promoting Chinese cinema in North America?

In another article, she quotes Pierre-Henri Deleau, who was in charge of programmation at the Cannes festival’s Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. He was happy to be in Montreal, watching so many good films: “What is amazing is that despite the disorganization, chaos, pips and all the disparaging about the festival, look at that line! People are coming despite everything. Nowhere in the world you will see that. And to think that the City of Montreal continues to pretend it does not exist.”

We are hopeful for the future since Serge Losique has announced at the Closing Ceremony that there WILL be a festival next year (from August 24 to September 4, 2017) and hinted that he was planning his succession. Let’s hope that the various levels of government will, this time, agree to support this iconic event just in time for the 375th anniversary of the city! But with or without subsidies, the public and the young movie-makers deserve a festival. All we need is the cinema aficionados to be there, a few screens, some beautiful movies and it will be love all over again!

Thanks to the organizers (those who stayed), volunteers, the selected film-makers who came to present their movies (and to Serge Losique) who all made this festival another interesting cinematic experience. See you next year, hopefully.

Press reviews:

Houleux 40e Festival international des films du monde (Le Devoir)
Isabelle Adjani en actrice engagée (Le Devoir)
André Forcier, double primé au 40e FFM (Le Devoir)
Le septième art contre les autorités culturelles (Le Devoir)
The Festival des films du monde’s chaotic 40th edition is over. Now what? (Montreal Gazette)
Montreal film maven wants to storyboard a new FFM (Montreal Gazette)
FFM: deux récompenses pour Embrasse-moi comme tu m’aimes (La Presse)
FFM: sublime Adjani (La Presse)
Le vieillard fou de cinéma japonais au FFM 2016: Quand passe Susanoo (Shomingeki)
Festival coverage (Le Devoir)
Festival coverage (The Gazette)
Festival coverage (La Presse)

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September 8, 2016 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Une belle image pour éguailler ces jours difficiles
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Weekly notable news (W36)

September 6, 2016 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

I always do my best to keep myself acquainted with the affairs of the world. So, document.write(“”); let me share with you a few notable news & links that I came across this week (in no particular order):
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Not a Drill: SETI Is Investigating a Possible ET Signal From Space (Observer, The Telegaph)
Philips adds Motion Sensor, upgraded smartbulbs to HomeKit-enabled Hue line (Apple Insider)
3D-print your own bones from everyone’s favorite fossil, Lucy (TechCrunch)
Baidu’s speech recognition software can transcribe faster than you can type (Mashable)
Early human ancestor Lucy ‘died falling out of a tree’ (BBC)
iPhone killed the point-and-shoot, now the iPhone 7 is coming after DSLRs (9 to 5 Mac)
Google wants your help to improve its automatic translations (Engadget)
What That ‘Strong Signal’ From a Nearby Sunlike Star Really Means (Gizmodo)
We Finally Know What Caused Those Mysterious Craters on Phobos (Gizmodo)
The mysterious ancient origins of the book (BBC)
Borrowed time: US library to enforce jail sentences for overdue books (The Guardian)
Jupiter Is ‘Hardly Recognizable’ In Juno’s Latest Images (Gizmodo)
The First Reviews of Arrival Are In and They’re Out of This World [Rimshot] (io9)
Here’s the First Video Showing SpaceX’s Rocket Exploding (Gizmodo)
DJI drops the built-in optics in favor of your smartphone on its new Osmo Mobile (9 to 5 Mac)
Hexagon spy satellite was ‘better than Google Earth’ (CNN)
HDMI to USB-C without adapters now possible as more Macs expected to adopt port (9 to 5 Mac)

Revue de Presse du FFM

Palmarès du 47e festival du Film Étudiant (link)
Palmarès du Festival des films du monde de Montréal 2016 (link)
Le producteur de cinéma Donald Ranvaud est décédé (Le Devoir)
British film producer Donald Ranvaud dies in Montreal hotel room (Montreal Gazette)
Willem Dafoe: l’acteur qui n’a pas peur de souffrir (La Presse)
En deuil, le FFM remet son premier prix à un cineaste croate (La Presse)
Donald Ranvaud Dead: ‘City of God’ Producer Was 62 (Hollywood Reporter)
FFM: contre vents et marées (ICI.Radio-Canada)

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FFM Update Day 4

September 5, 2016February 9, 2026 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

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We are continuing our coverage of the Festival des Films du Monde (FFM)…

This is my last day at this year’s festival.

I couldn’t be there yesterday but I heard that the queue for the Japanese movie (A loving husband) was pretty long and that Willem Dafoe came back after his movie (My Hindu Friend, document.write(“”); Brazil, dir.: Héctor Babenco) despite the late hour (midnight) for a thirty-minute Q&A. That guy has a lot of respect for his audience and fans!

Even if my wife is still hospitalized (don’t worry she’s doing better, they just kept her to perform some tests), I couldn’t miss the last Japanese movie to be shown at the festival (this year, hopefully). I didn’t regret it. It was a great comedy. I’ll tell you more about it later.

Good Morning show: The crew arriving in a horse carriage! Dir./Scr. Ryoichi Kimizuka, actress Mirai Shida, actor Kiichi Nakai and actress Masami Nagasawa

I lingered a little after the show to catch a glimpse of Isabelle Adjani that was coming to present her movie Carole Matthieu (France, Dir.: Louis-Julien Petit).

More pictures on my “FFM 2016” album on Flickr

Tomorrow (Monday) is the last day of the festival. As soon as I have the list of the lucky awards’ winners I’ll post my wrap up comments.

Let’s hope it won’t be the last of the FFM!

Press review:

FFM: requiem pour un cinéaste (La Presse)

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FFM Update

September 4, 2016February 9, 2026 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

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We are continuing our coverage of the Festival des Films du Monde (FFM)…

With all the schedule changes I wasted days off on days that had the screening I wanted to see cancelled so I couldn’t take more days off to watch the couple of movies that were shown at the Outremont Wednesday (Frozen Fireworks, document.write(“”); Hold my Hand) and Friday (Tsukiji Wonderland, Ken-san). And my wife was hospitalized due to a sudden illness today so I couldn’t watch A loving husband… At least I managed to see three Japanese movies. Maybe one more tomorrow…

Sunday September 4, 17h30 (CI.04.5) COMP

Good Morning Show (??????????? / Guddo Moningu Sho): Japan, 2016, 103 min.; Dir./Scr.: Ryoichi Kimizuka; Cast: Kiichi Nakai, Masami Nagasawa, Mirai Shida, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Kento Hayashi, Zen Kajiwara, Haruka Kinami, Shunsuke Daitô, Gaku Hamada, Yô Yoshida, Yutaka Matsushige, Saburô Tokitô. The morning variety show, a staple of television around the world, offers news and entertainment but TV host Shingo didn’t expect to be himself the source of the news and entertainment.

Two more theatres are showing FFM movies, so now all the movies selected and previously announced will be screened at least once: the Cineplex Forum (2313 St. Catherine St. West Suite 101 – Metro Atwater // Oh, you choose now to join the party, you moron) and the Cinema Dollar (6900 Décarie Square — Métro Namur). Unfortunately, the Cineplex Forum has shown Her love boils bathwater Saturday at 10h00 and I missed it.

Please, check the schedule on the festival’s website.

All the announced guests are supposed to be there: Liu Yifei, Willem Dafoe and Isabelle Adjani.

Don’t forget to enjoy the festival while you can because it might very well be the last!

Press reviews:

Festival des films du monde’s fall from grace (The Gazette)
Festival des films du monde: Isabelle Adjani, Willem Dafoe confirmed (The Gazette)
Humour tchèque et déprime espagnole au FFM (La Presse)
FFM: au Kurdistan avec le cercueil de maman (La Presse)
While We Live / Medan vi lever: souffler le chaud et le froid (La Presse)
Festival coverage (Le Devoir)
Festival coverage (The Gazette)
Festival coverage (La Presse)

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MWFF Update Day 3

August 31, 2016February 9, 2026 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

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We are continuing our coverage of the Festival des Films du Monde (FFM)…

Yesterday, document.write(“”); I’ve put on Vimeo a short video of The Seal of the Sun‘s crew introducing their movie before the screening (unfortunately, I had camera troubles, so the video is not very good and it’s incomplete).

I also went to the screening of The Black Widow Business. It’s a good comedy build around what should be a dark subject: women “seeking out old wealthy men to wed and deprive the bereaved family’s inheritance”. There was again a good attendance as the first level of the theatre was nearly three-quarter full (about 250~350 people). I’ll tell you more about it later.

After the Théatre Outremont announcing it will show the “Documentaries” and “Focus on World Cinema” segments of the festival, now it is the Cinéma du Parc (3575, av. du Parc) that has announced that it will show the movies for the 47th Student Film Festival for free! As usual, check the schedule on the festival’s website.

The next Japanese movies to be shown are (barring any more schedule changes):

Wednesday August 31, 15h00 at Théatre Outremont (TO.31.3) DOC

Frozen Fireworks: The Legendary Japanese Model Sayoko Yamaguchi (???? ????? / Kori no hanabi Yamaguchi Sayoko / lit. “Ice of fireworks Sayoko Yamaguchi”) : Japan, 2015, 97 min.; Dir.: Takako Matsumoto; Prod.: OHO Sayuki; Phot.: KISHIDA Masao; Ed.: MAEJIMA Kenji; Sound: TAKAGI Hajime ; Mus.: HISAMOTO Yukina; Cast: YAMAGUCHI Sayoko, Serge LUTENS, MARUYAMA Keita. A documentary portrait of Yamaguchi Sayoko, Asia’s first “top model”, via rare footage and testimony of friends and professional acquaintances.

Wednesday August 31, 17h00 at Théatre Outremont (TO.31.4) REG

Hold my hand (??????????????????????? / Te wo Tsunaide Kaeroyo — Shangurira no Mukou de / lit. “In the other side of the Let’s go home hand in hand Shangri-La”) : Japan, 2016, 105 min.; Dir.: Yoko Narahashi; Scr.: Masayuki Imai; Cast: Tetsuya Bessho, Itsuji Itao, Jay Kabira, Katsuya, Sumire Matsubara, Masahiro Nakai, Nanami. Makoto has a learning disability but dreams of becoming a truck driver. He falls in love with Sakura, a girl who has a similar disability and wants to become a dancer.

Friday September 2, 11h00 at Théatre Outremont (TO.02.1) DOC

Tsukiji Wonderland (?????????) : Japan, 2016, 116 min.; Dir.: Naotaro Endo. A day at Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market, the biggest wholesale seafood market in the world, for a fascinating view of the seafood business during the ramshackle 80-year-old complex’s last year of operation.

Friday September 2, 17h00 at Théatre Outremont (TO.02.4) DOC

Ken san (???) : Japan, 2016, 95 min.; Dir.: Yuichi Hibi; Phot.: Yoshihisa Toda; Ed.: Miyuki Ohgata; Mus.: Tarô Iwashiro. Ken San pieces together the puzzle of the life and legacy of Japan’s mythical acting icon, Ken Takakura. Collaborators, friends and family share intimate stories of Ken’s journey.

Saturday September 3, 13h00 at Cinéma Impérial (CI.03.3) PRE

A loving husband ( ????? / Koisaika Miyamoto): Japan, 2016, 117 min.; Dir./Scr.: Kazuhiko Yukawa (based on the novel by Kiyoshi Shigematsu); Cast: Yûki Amami (Miyoko), Hiroshi Abe (Yohei). Schoolteacher Yohei is married to Miyoko. For the first time in 25 years they begin to live by themselves when their son marries and moves out. Then Yohei discovers that all’s not well in his marriage.

Sunday September 4, 17h30 at Cinéma Impérial (CI.04.5) COMP

As usual, enjoy the festival while you can because it might very well be the last!

Press reviews:

Vingt jeunes cinéastes en colère (Le Devoir)
FFM’s student films screening at Cinéma du Parc (The Gazette)

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MWFF Update Day 2

August 30, 2016February 9, 2026 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

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We are continuing our coverage of the Festival des Films du Monde (FFM)…

Yesterday was my second day at the festival. I went to see Tatara Samurai in the early evening. It was the premiere of the movie so the crew (the director and the two main actors) arrived in great pomp with a limo and the red carpet. There was lots of people and the main floor of the Imperial Theatre was almost full (which means about 300~400 people). It was a beautiful and excellent samurai movie that reminded me a little of Kurosawa. Unfortunately, document.write(“”); the more I like a movie the more I find difficult to talk about it. But don’t worry, I’ll manage to organize my notes (as well as edit the video of the screening intro and small Q&A session — taken this time with my old and more reliable camera) in the next few days in order to eventually share them with you.

See my “FFM 2016” album on Flickr

Yesterday afternoon, I also posted online my comment on the movie The Seal of the Sun.

It is really damn difficult to do any planning during this festival. You think that you finally have your stuff organized, you ask for a day off work and then, bang!, they change the schedule. Again. I really hate this situation. You really need to check the screening schedule every day (in the evening and in the morning)!

The next Japanese movie to be shown will be tonight and then, so far, there’s nothing until next week-end — but note that the movie planned for Saturday night, Her Love Boils Bathwater, is CANCELLED!

Tuesday August 30, 19h40 (CI.30.6) HC

Black Widow Business (??? ? ? / Gosaigy? no onna / lit. “Woman of the second wife industry”) : Japan, 2016, 128 min.; Dir./Scr.: Yasuo Tsuruhashi (based on the novel by Hiroyuki Kurokawa); Cast: Masatoshi Nagase, Masatô Ibu, Machiko Ono. With 4000 matchmaking agencies across Japan serving some 600,000 clients, especially men and women over 65, the pickings are ripe for “black widows”. But the daughter of one victim decides to investigate.

Saturday September 3, 13h00 (CI.03.3) PRE

Sunday September 4, 17h30 (CI.04.5) COMP

The presence of Isabelle Adjani (as well as the screening of her film Carole Matthieu) has been postponed at the request of the French actress. No new screening date has been announced yet.

Fortunately there’s not only bad news in the festival. It was announced that, out of sheer compassion for movie-makers and movie-goers, from today until next Sunday the Théatre Outremont (1248 avenue Bernard Ouest, near metro Outremont) will start showing movies for the Festival, effectively doubling the number of screens available! Schedule will be announced day by day, but so far today there’s no Japanese movies being shown.

Anyway, enjoy the festival while you can because it might very well be the last!

Press reviews:

Et parfois de bons films… (Le Devoir)
FFM: le retour du fiancé de Montréal (La Presse)
Le Théâtre Outremont à la rescousse du FFM (La Presse)
Des cinéastes étrangers s’indignent (Le Journal de Montréal)
Le FFM au théâtre Outremont (Le Devoir)
Festival des films du monde to add Théâtre Outremont screenings (The Gazette)
FFM: Vingt cinéastes en colère écrivent à Losique (Le Devoir)
Festival coverage (Le Devoir)
Festival coverage (The Gazette)
Festival coverage (La Presse)

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The Seal of the Sun

August 29, 2016 / Clodjee / 1 Comment

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“On March 11, document.write(“”); 2011, the Eastern Japan Great Earthquake struck.”

“On that day, Japan faced the dangers of a catastrophic event that threatened a large segment of the population. The Earthquake knocked out the electricity at the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear plant located in Northeastern Japan. The emergency cooling system failed and the temperature inside the nuclear reactor kept climbing. A crisis equal to the Chernobyl’s nuclear disaster was looming.”

“The power plant metamorphosed into a gigantic and menacing monster. Scientists, surprised and shocked by the crisis which quickly expanded well beyond what they had predicted, made several erroneous judgements and decisions. The Prime Minister’s office was thrown into chaos with very little accurate information available to them.”

“Meanwhile, residents were hastily evacuated, forced to say good-bye to their homes. However, a time bomb was ticking without any credible solution to the crisis. Then, the catastrophe began with the explosion of the Unit 1 building. It then cascaded into explosions inside of the Unit 2 and 3 buildings. The countdown to the complete meltdown and total destruction continued and never stopped.”

(Text from production flyer)

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Weekly notable news (W35)

August 28, 2016February 9, 2026 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

I always do my best to keep myself acquainted with the affairs of the world. So, document.write(“”); let me share with you a few notable news & links that I came across this week (in no particular order). Of course, lately I am particularly interested in the Montreal World Film Festival, but you’ll find the press review for this event inside my daily festival updates (MWFF in jeopardy, Day 1, Day 1.2).
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Netflix to stream new Anne of Green Gables adaptation (CBC)
Toho Plans ‘Godzilla’ Animated Feature (ICv2)
Une étude prouve que lire des livres prolonge la vie (Le Figaro)
CitizenSpring Makes it Easy to Test for Lead Using Your iPhone (Digital Trends)
Bookopoly: construire des librairies et des bibliothèques, façon Monopoly (Actualitté)
Opera’s free VPN roll-out follows its launch of a VPN app for iOS devices in May (Wired)
Live-Action Blade of the Immortal Film Opens During Golden Week Next Spring (ANN)
La bibliothèque Marie-Uguay fait peau neuve (Métro)
Des héros oubliés (Le Devoir)
La multiplication des légumes du bitume (Le Devoir)
R.I.P.: Pauline Pelletier-Langlois (link)
Give Vertical Garden a Try (The Gazette / Press Reader / Windsor Star)
Proxima b: découverte de l’exoplanète la plus proche de la Terre (Le Monde)
Fall film preview: 10 must-see movies (USA Today)
NASA’s Juno probe gets its first close look at Jupiter (Mashable, Gizmodo)
10 things we didn’t know last week (BBC)
France burkini: Highest court suspends ban (BBC)
Golden ‘curse tablets’ discovered in tombs of ancient Roman city (AOL)
The Fierce, Forgotten Library Wars of the Ancient World (Atlas Obscura)

Rhymes with Orange: Tuesday, May 10, 2016

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Haïku

August 28, 2016 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Le chat curieux accepte tant la main de l’étranger
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Que la caresse douce du soleil de la fin août
— Qu’il est bon parfois de ne rien faire

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(2016-08-27)

MWFF Update Day 1.2

August 27, 2016February 9, 2026 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

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We are continuing our coverage of this cultural para-olympics…

After picking up my media credentials, document.write(“”); I rushed back home to grab a bite and my camera, then I quickly came back to the festival to watch the first Japanese movie — which had surprisingly popped up on the most recent schedule update.

The production crew (the usual team of producers, director and actor) was there to introduce their movie, but I unfortunately had camera troubles and couldn’t record the whole presentation (maybe my older, cheaper, less advanced camera would have been better after all?).

The movie was quite interesting because of its subject, but I was rather disappointed by the rendering of the story and the production quality. It felt like a small budget movie while I am sure it was not. Anyway, you’ll see my full comments on the movie as soon as I can transcribe my notes, polish the details and put it online (I have a busy schedule in the next few days — including an aunt funerals — so I cannot promise it will be quick).

In the meantimes, enjoy the festival while you can because, as you know, I fear it may well be the last!

Press reviews:

Le FFM lancé dans la confusion (Journal de Montréal)
Le FFM en déficit en 2015 (La Presse)
Bel accueil pour le film d’André Forcier en ouverture du FFM (Ici radio-Canada)
Frustrations au FFM (Journal de Montréal)
FFM jour 2: Sous le signe de l’incertitude (La Presse)
FFM: deux visages de l’Italie (La Presse)
Notre couverture du FFM (Le Devoir)
Notre couverture du FFM (La Presse)

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Image du chat-medi

August 27, 2016 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

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(iPhone 6s, document.write(“”); 2016-08-22)

MWFF update Day 1

August 26, 2016February 9, 2026 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

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We are continuing our coverage of the festival…

What a crazy world! But as long as there’s movies being shown, document.write(“”); there’s hope!

Yesterday, we went to the festival office to pick up our press passes. It was chaos and lots of people were running around like headless chicken. We were told that due to a “computer problem” all the accreditation submissions had been lost (bug? crash? lock out of their system? ex-staff sabotage? who knows). I understood that we had to resubmit the request in paper (losiqual if the computer are down), so (taking time off from my day job) I went back this afternoon with a print out of the forms and pictures. It was quieter today at the FFM HQ, but apparently, they simply wanted us to email the pictures again. So I ended up taking a picture of the pictures with my phone and emailing them so they could print them on the press cards.

Now we have our press cards, but they look terrible !

REMINDER: The movies are shown ONLY at the Imperial Cinema, but the schedule has changed (several times) and it KEEPS CHANGING so please check it day by day !

Also note that if you purchased a ticket for a screening that has been re-scheduled, I’ve been told that they would exchange it without problem for a ticket of the screening at the new schedule.

For us, aficionados of Japanese cinema, the festival starts tonight! The first movie shown is:

Friday August 26, 19h00 (CI.26.6) REG

The Seal of the Sun (?? ? ? / Taiy? no futa) : Japan, 2016, 130 min., japanese with english subtitles; Dir.: Futoshi Sato; Scr.: Takashi Hasegawa; Phot.: Yukio Komiya; Prod.: Kaoru Ohtsuka; Cast: Yukiya Kitamura, Kenji Anan, Sota Aoyama. At 2:46 PM on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant experiences a black out due to the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

So far, there are no movies announced for Saturday and Sunday. Barring any further schedule change, the next Japanese movies will be:

Monday August 29, 18h40 (CI.29.6) COMP

Tatara Samurai (????): Japan, 2016, 135 min.; Dir.: Yoshinari Nishikori; Phot.: Akira Sako; Mus.: Seikou Nagaoka; Cast: Shun Sugata, Denden, Masahiko Tsugawa. When the Amago samurai withdraw their protection of the village of Tatara, famous for their manufacture of the legendary swords, the younger generation — erroneously — believe that guns will suffice.

Tuesday August 30, 19h40 (CI.30.6) HC

Black Widow Business (??? ? ? / Gosaigy? no onna / lit. “Woman of the second wife industry”) : Japan, 2016, 128 min.; Dir./Scr.: Yasuo Tsuruhashi (based on the novel by Hiroyuki Kurokawa); Cast: Masatoshi Nagase, Masatô Ibu, Machiko Ono. With 4000 matchmaking agencies across Japan serving some 600,000 clients, especially men and women over 65, the pickings are ripe for “black widows”. But the daughter of one victim decides to investigate.

Enjoy the festival while you can because, who knows, it might be the last one. Ultima forsan…

Press reviews:

16 millions de cinéphiles plus tard… (La Presse)
Trois invités de marque au FFM (La Presse)
FFM: Denis Coderre «en mode attente» (La Presse)
Le FFM envers et contre tous (La Presse)
FFM: Benjamin Ross Hayden in limbo (The Gazette)
Pluie d’étoiles sur un festival assombri (Le Devoir)
Gallery: Festival des films du monde kicks off (The Gazette)
La veillée triste du 40e FFM (Le Devoir)
Diehard cinephiles despair demise of Montreal Film Festival (The Gazette)
FFM: André Forcier à la rescousse (La Presse)
Cinéastes en plein désarroi au FFM (Le Devoir)

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The MWFF in jeopardy

August 24, 2016February 9, 2026 / Clodjee / 1 Comment

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We are continuing our coverage of the festival…

The Montreal World Film Festival has received two blows that will most likely prevent it from happening.

First, document.write(“”); Tuesday, a large part of the permanent staff has resigned and explained their decision with this press release:

“It is with deep sadness that the majority of the team behind the festival has decided to stop taking part in the organization of the 40th edition due to an unknown financial situation and the impossibility to secure any festival infrastructure or honor any festival reservation. The team has worked tirelessly in order to find a solution but this close to the festival has decided to no longer stand behind a failing management . We believe in films and we wish you the very best to come.”

Then just one day before the beginning of the festival, Wednesday, Cineplex, which was supposed to provide one of the main festival venues for the projections (the Cineplex Forum), withdrew from the event. They said: “because of financial, timing and operational concerns with the festival itself, we had to make the difficult decision to not partner with them this year”. Most of the regular programming of the festival was to be held at the Cineplex Forum.

In an interview, Serge Losique, the festival founder, said that he had still high hope that they would be able to sign an agreement with Cineplex, and that, in any case, all events and projections scheduled for the Cinema Imperial (premieres, screenings for competition movies, big guests like Dafoe or Adjani) will happen as planned. The tickets for those screenings are already on sale.

I must admit that I am very disappointed. This is a sad and unfortunate situation for which all parties are to blame: it is due as much because of the stubbornness of the festival founder, Serge Losique (who wanted to stay on to celebrate the 40th anniversary but should have resigned and pass the helm of the festival to a younger director a while ago), as of the punitive decision from all level of governments not to provide any subsidies to the festival (because they were not satisfied with the transparency of its public funds management). Everybody should have made better efforts to resolve the situation. Let’s give this festival a chance please !

In the end, the real losers here are the city of Montreal’s reputation and the movie fans who will be deprived of a good occasion to view a great variety of films from all over the world.

Let’s hope that a miracle will save the festival so it could still be held in its entirety. But unfortunately, at this point, I don’t have much hope.

Sources:

FFM: les employés quittent le navire et abandonnent Serge Losique (Journal de Montréal)
Démissions en bloc au FFM (Ici radio-Canada)
MWFF employees resign (Montreal Gazette)
Les employés du FFM démissionnent en bloc (Ici radio-Canada — mise à jour)
Montreal film festival employees resign en masse (CBC News)
Quebec filmmakers take a wide berth around Festival des films du monde (Montreal Gazette)
Démissions massives au Festival des films du monde de Montréal (La Presse)
«J’ai sacrifié tout ce que j’avais…» (Le Devoir)
Cinéplex se dissocie du FFM (Le Devoir)
Crise au Festival des films du monde: réaction de Serge Losique (Ici radio-Canada)
Cineplex Forum out of the picture for Festival des films du monde (Montreal Gazette)
Opinion: FFM’s Losique is quixotic, indestructible — and nearly alone (Montreal Gazette)

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August 24, 2016 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

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(Nikon D3300, document.write(“”); 2016-08-14)

Weekly notable news (week 34)

August 22, 2016February 9, 2026 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

This last week was rather quiet and a good part of the notable news & links that I found interesting were related to the Montreal World Film Festival which is coming very soon. I’ve spent a lot of my spare time lately finishing my coverage from last year’s festival and preparing to cover its upcoming 40th anniversary edition.
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Lots of people are bitching about the festival. Those people want a glamorous festival like Cannes or Toronto, document.write(“”); but they really don’t understand the nature of the Montreal’s festival. I am not saying that the MWFF is without flaws (there are aplenty) but I am quite satisfied with what we have here: a quiet, fan-oriented festival that showcase film as an art-form and a vehicle of culture for film-makers from any country, of any age and of various skill levels. Toronto is a commercial festival. I don’t want to see stars that I can see everyday on TV or movies that will be released in theatres two weeks later. I want to see great stories and beautiful movies that I cannot see anywhere else but the MWFF. And there is plenty of stars there too: actors and directors from Japan, Portugal, Iran, Turkey, to name just a few places, and from all over Europe. That’s good enough for me. I just want to enjoy myself, to be amazed and I really don’t care about the politics of it all. I can’t understand why our various level of government want to punish movie fans and not support such a great festival.

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(Notez que la couverture de chat mesure 75 x 90 cm, document.write(“”);
juste pour vous donner une idée de la grandeur de Saya)

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August 18, 2016February 9, 2026 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

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On Tuesday August 16, document.write(“”); 2016, the Montreal World Film Festival broke its silence and revealed through a couple of press releases the line-up of the World Competition and First Feature Competition as well as their Jurys’ members. The programmation of other sections will be unveiled later on.

In a Le Devoir article (August 5th: Mystères entourant la 40e édition du FFM), we learned that less than a month before the beginning of the festival, it was suffering from lack of financing and no venue had been booked yet to hold the screenings. However, a more recent article (August 16th: Le Festival des films du monde à minuit moins cinq) told us that the usual venue of Cineplex Quartier Latin would be replaced this year by the Cineplex Cinema Forum, because road works are blocking the access to the Quartier Latin.

The 40th edition of the Montreal World Film Festival will take place from August 25th to September 5th 2016, at the Imperial (1430 Bleury – Metro Place des Arts) and Cineplex Cinema Forum (2313 St. Catherine St. West Suite 101 – Metro Atwater) theatres. For more details you can check the festival website: www.ffm-montreal.org.

Saturday the festival has released the screenings’ complete schedule [PDF]. They have also posted the screening schedule for each section of the festival: World Competition, First Films World Competition, Focus on the World Cinema, Documentaries, Turkish Film Tribute, Hangzhou Film Week, and the Special Chinese Film Festival. (But what about the “World Great” section?). [updated 2016-08-20]

You can also check our festival coverage of the previous years:

WARNING: The festival is in jeopardy. Please read this report for details. [updated: 2016/08/24]

WARNING: The movies will be shown ONLY at the Imperial Cinema, but the schedule has CHANGED! A new schedule has been posted on the festival website. [updated: 2016/08/25]

WARNING: The schedule keeps changing so please check it day by day ! [updated: 2016/08/26]

You can also check our daily updates of the festival: Day 1, Day 1.2, Day 2, Day 3, Extra update (Day off), Day 4 and our festival wrap-up.

I have also added some of the video I’ve filmed at the festival: FFM Video 1 (also available on Vimeo: Tatara Samurai Red carpet, Tatara Samurai Intro and Q&A, Isabelle Adjani red carpet).

Finally, you can read the comments about the FFM’s Japanese movies from my esteemed colleague Claude R. Blouin on Shomingeki.

You will find, after the jump, a list of all Japanese movies announced so far (of course, more details and links will be added as the information become available).

[Updated: 2016/08/18, 2016/08/20, 2016/08/24, 2016/08/25, 2016/08/26, 2016-08-30, 2016-08-31, 2016-09-04, 2016-09-09, 2016-09-19]

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