Jasper Sharp : events
27
Apr
Nippon Connection, Frankfurt, Wed 27 April – Sun 1 May 2011

Event: Nippon Connection Japanisches Filmfestival

Where: Frankfurt Am Main, Germany

When: Wed 27 April – Sun 1 May 2011

From April 27 to May 1, 2011, Nippon Connection in Frankfurt am Main will show exciting and creative cinema from Japan for the eleventh time. The preparations for the festival are already in full swing. Once more, Nippon Connection will present a broad range of avantgarde, anime, blockbusters and documentaries with more than 100 of the latest Japanese short and feature films, many of them screened as German, European or international premieres and accompanied by the presence of film-makers and actors.

Aside from the film program Nippon Connection will also give you the chance to experience various aspects of Japanese culture – from “pop art” to high culture. Prepare to be amazed!

Highlights this year include a comprehensive Sion Sono retrospective.

Posted at 15:02 on 27 April 2011 Filed under events.
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07
Apr
Zipangu Fest @ The Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle, 7-17 April 2011

Event: Zipangu Fest @ The Star and Shadow Cinema

Where: The Star and Shadow Cinema, Stepney Bank, Newcastle Upon Tyne  NE1 2NP
Tel: 0191 261 0066

When: Thurs 7 – Sun 17 April 2011

The Star and Shadow Cinema is very excited to be screening some excellent programmes from Zipangu Fest, the first UK-wide Japanese Film Festival, with programmes very rarely seen in the UK, from mesmerising new animation to beautiful live action feature films.

Newcastle's Star and Shadow Cinema

Thursday 7th April

7:30 p.m. – Beyond Anime: CALF Animation + TALK

A very rare screening of no less than 13 short animation programmes from the new CALF label, which distributes work from some of the most innovative independent Japanese filmmakers + Jasper Sharp, director of London Japanese Film Festival and specialist of Japanese cinema, will introduce the night!

Sunday 10th April

7:30 p.m. – NN-891102 + shorts

Unforgettable indie classic about a man struggling to overcome the trauma of the A-bomb through sound.

Thursday 14th April

7:30 p.m. -  Ero Guro Anime Night

This is a selection of 4 nightmarish short animation films, from underground filmmakers Hiroshi Harada and Naoyuki Niiya. The films sit within a hybridised East-West freakshow tradition, and promise a night you won’t soon forget!

Sunday 17th April

7:30 p.m. – Footed Tadpoles + shorts

A quirky coming-of-age comedy about first love in junior high school.

Season curated by Jasper Sharp, Director of Zipangu Fest, and who will come over to introduce the night on 7 April!


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Posted at 15:25 on 07 April 2011 Filed under events.
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25
Mar
Widescreen Weekend, Bradford, Fri 25–Mon 28 March 2011

Event: Widescreen Weekend 2011

Where: Pictureville Cinema, National Media Museum, Bradford BD1 1NQ

When: Fri 25–Mon 28 March 2011

“Come and see Cinerama and 70mm in all its splendour. We will include new 4k DCP prints of classic widescreen and large format films, as well as a mix of new and old 70mm prints, from the vaults and collectors alike, in its 70mm curved screen splendour.

Join Sir David and Col. Nicholson, the Prescotts and Dersu to see the whole wide world in breathtaking letterbox format. Feel the Russian cold, Jarre’s classic tunes, Varykino’s real estate and a hot day on the job for an English map maker in Arabia, while not minding of course. Dance craze to the ska beats of the 1980s and push the button on the curve with Max. Get a black and white Wise scare-o-rama, while you enjoy a Goodwin orchestrated German rocket science blow-up and a DDR large format interpretation of a Spanish painter in ORVO color.”

How the West Was Won, playing in Bradford in 3-strip Cinerama on the curve with 7-track magnetic stereo with introduction by Sir Christopher Frayling

The Pictureville Cinema in Bradford is the only cinema left in the world outside of the United States capable of showing original 3-strip Cinerama.

Films showing at this year’s Widescreen Weekend include: Operation Crossbow, How the West Was Won, The Dark Crystal, Bridge on the River Kwai, The Lion in Winter, The Great Race and Goya.

I’ll be introducing the screening of Akira Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala , in Sovscope 70, on the Friday.

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Posted at 14:04 on 25 March 2011 Filed under events.
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