787 Jellyfish Eyes

[greekboy]

[sir_luke]

"Must be 21 years of age or older to attend"

Judging by the trailer, that's missing the core demo by about a decade, isn't it?

[domino harvey]

There could be an open bar. Would probably not want to expose others to this when sober either

[knives]

Given some of the artist's work 21 or older makes a lot of sense.

[gorgeousnothings]

Now available for pre-order on iTunes with an expected release date of July 15th.

I'm curious enough to rent it, but I can't get these damn itunes rentals to work on my computer for the life of me.

[hollis]

Not that further confirmation is necessary but this opens Gawker's interview with Murakami:

...my 30-minute discussion with Japanese visual artist Takashi Murakami and his translator Yuko Sakata earlier this week at the Criterion offices in New York. Close Criterion associate Janus Film is distributing Murakami’s first movie, Jellyfish Eyes, which Murakami was in town to promote.

[ianungstad]

The reviews are starting to pour in and they are quite negative. The film is currently at 33% on RT and 34% on MC and dropping. I have no idea why Criterion went out of the way to acquire the rights to this. This is going to go down in most people's eyes as the worst title in the collection.

[knives]

They're probably a fan of his work. Also, a bit like Tiny Furniture, I bet it will wind up being a money maker for them.

[danieltiger]

Worth noting that Tiny Furniture is currently at 79% on RT.

[sir_luke]

I'm just hoping it's ridiculous enough to sustain a satisfying hate-watch.

[FakeBonanza]

Criterion finally revisits contemporary Asian cinema, and this is what we get?

[giovannii84]

The reviews are starting to pour in and they are quite negative. The film is currently at 33% on RT and 34% on MC and dropping. I have no idea why Criterion went out of the way to acquire the rights to this. This is going to go down in most people's eyes as the worst title in the collection.

Worse than Armageddon?

[Newsnayr]

Or Border Radio?

[The Narrator Returns]

At least this looks memorably bad. Border Radio is like spending a five-hour car ride through nowhere sitting next to a chronic mumbler.

[cdnchris]

Sounds like my last drive through the mid section of California with my daughter, who was 2 at the time. That was still more entertaining than Border Radio.

[ianungstad]

Jellyfish Eyes is now sitting at 25% on RT.

[domino harvey]

Maybe Criterion will release this sans branding, like the Red Balloon

[Gregory]

Possibly, but at iTunes it already bears the C that is wacky.

Haven't seen it and probably won't, but having read Murkami's statements about what he was going for, it seems preachy and trite. As he told Blouin Art Info, "after the great earthquake and tsunami disasters in 2011, I realized that people need narrative — a story is something that is necessary for people."
So what is this message that people need to be told so urgently because of disasters? In a different interview (Paper magazine), he said "Masashi's uncle ... doesn't do anything throughout the movie, he just tells children to do stuff and then leaves it to them. ... That's an example, but all the adults in the film are like that. The school teacher can't stop the bullying, the parents are actually hitting their own children, and so I was trying to emphasize that the adults are useless and that they don't have any power. Even so, the message is that the children need to find their own way and they need to go forward."
So that's it? Don't trust anyone over 30, or something like that? There's also the whole narrative about exploiting negative emotions as an energy source? The idea seems to be that negative emotions are bad and that children need things that foster positive emotions? Brilliant.

[lefeufollet]

Possibly, but at iTunes it already bears the C that is wacky.

The iTunes edition of The Red Balloon is likewise graced with a C.

[djproject]

Haven't seen it and probably won't, but having read Murkami's statements about what he was going for, it seems preachy and trite. As he told Blouin Art Info, "after the great earthquake and tsunami disasters in 2011, I realized that people need narrative — a story is something that is necessary for people."
So what is this message that people need to be told so urgently because of disasters? In a different interview (Paper magazine), he said "Masashi's uncle ... doesn't do anything throughout the movie, he just tells children to do stuff and then leaves it to them. ... That's an example, but all the adults in the film are like that. The school teacher can't stop the bullying, the parents are actually hitting their own children, and so I was trying to emphasize that the adults are useless and that they don't have any power. Even so, the message is that the children need to find their own way and they need to go forward."
So that's it? Don't trust anyone over 30, or something like that? There's also the whole narrative about exploiting negative emotions as an energy source? The idea seems to be that negative emotions are bad and that children need things that foster positive emotions? Brilliant.

This just makes me want to see Kaze no tani no Naushika or Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi again.

(You all are resourceful enough to figure this out. At least I didn't use kanji or hiragana renderings =D )

[danieltiger]

If Criterion ever got their hands on the Miyazaki movies, I think I'd lose my shit a little bit.

[Michael Kerpan]

If only Criterion would rescue Takahata's Omohide poro poro (Only Yesterday) from Disney -- which clearly never plans to release it itself in the US.

[Polaroid]

This film is pretty bad, managed to see it and I would say its worse than Armageddon. No idea why Criterion would touch this, I am struggling to see any skill in the film making.

[domino harvey]

Trailer for Jellyfish Eyes 2

My God, why hast thou forsaken us?

[Self]

Consolation- its priced at $29.95