Movie: Lost in Translation (FG - the movie!

[gkanai]

Bill Murray is in a Sofia Coppola movie about gaijins in Japan. Should be funny for us FGers to watch here in Tokyo

http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/lostintranslation.html

[Taro Toporific]

Bill Murray is in a Sofia Coppola movie about gaijins in Japan. Should be funny for us FGers to watch here in Tokyo ]http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/lostintranslation.html[/url]

The film's premise is that BILL IS DOING A SUNTORY CM !

As I said before in the FG thread, "Lost in Translation - Trailer," the OFFICIAL Site has the trailer in Quicktime for Mac users and more info.
http://www.lost-in-translation.com/

[gkanai]

Sorry 'bout the double post Taro

[Taro Toporific]

Bill Murray is in a Sofia Coppola movie about gaijins in Japan. Should be funny for us FGers to watch here in Tokyo ]http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/lostintranslation.html[/url]

Word Is Terrific for Coppola's 'Translation'
Boston.com, MA Aug 18
Murray plays Bob Harris, an American movie star in Tokyo...[[and Scarlett Johansson's]] character, Charlotte, who's married to a workaholic photographer ... interesting and surprising friendship between these two very different people, both of whom are actually a bit at sea in this very strange environment. They're really two fish out of water.

It's an intriguing world that Coppola constructs in "Translation" and one that looks so different and foreign and unique compared to what we're accustomed to seeing in the U.S.

"I love that about Tokyo," she observed. "There are so many places you go to and there's still something you can recognize that's familiar. There's elements of Western culture, but it's odd. It's a different version, something very foreign and weird."

[Alcazar]

I visited the site and saw the movie. It looked good, but I admit that initially the scene of Bill Murray landing in Japan at night and traveling through Tokyo scared the shit out of me-It really made me think 'Could I survive in that on my own when I go next year'.

All the other times I have been to Japan have been with my parents, so the thought of jumping in the deep end into Japan totally by myself really scares me.....I guess everyone else here has experienced that feeling at some point or another while in Japan.

Alcazar

[Taro Toporific]

I visited the site and saw the movie. It looked good, but I admit that initially the scene of Bill Murray landing in Japan at night and traveling through Tokyo scared the shit out of me...

After 20 years, it still scares the bejesus out of me in Blade Runner kind of way.



The Coppola Smart Mob
NYTimes.com > Magazine

....Sofia Coppola avoided the movie business. ''I became a dilettante,'' she admitted. ''I wanted to do something creative, but I didn't know what it would be.'' ... In 1995, she created a clothing company called Milk Fed with Stephanie Hayman, her oldest friend from grade school in Napa Valley. (The Coppolas have always kept the house there as their home base, where they also have a vineyard. Between Francis's movies, they would usually return there.) ''Sofia was always fashionable,'' Hayman recalled. ''I think she had things from Chanel in seventh grade. When I moved to L.A. from Napa, we talked about making some clothes. We're both very petite and have trouble finding things in our size. So we started Milk Fed. The company just took off. Now, we do four collections a year, and we make everything from underwear to overcoats. ''

Although Coppola has less and less to do with Milk Fed, it is lucrative. ''The clothing company does well enough that I don't have to make money from movies,'' she says.

Milk Fed is now sold almost exclusively in Japan, where the clothes are produced and where the company has a store called Heaven 27. When they are in Tokyo, Sofia and Stephanie always stay at the Park Hyatt hotel, where ''Lost in Translation'' is set. ''They let us film there because I've stayed at the hotel,'' Sofia explained. Yet another connection made.

.......''Lost in Translation'' cost less than $4 million and was filmed in just 27 days. Coppola worked the cast and crew hard...

Sofia Coppola



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Note: This is the only JPEG from the movie Blade Runner. All the other JPEGs are just plain old concrete Tokyo.

[Big Booger]

looks good. I'll download, I mean go see it as soon as it is released.

[kotatsuneko]

"lick my stockings!"

damn, ill pay the fee just to see that scene ^^

[cstaylor]

"lick"? I thought she said "lift my stockings".

[GridReaper]

I thought she said "Rip my stockings!"

[gkanai]

Sofia Coppola, Bill Murray Steal Show in Venice

VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - The small-budget romantic comedy "Lost in Translation," directed by Sofia Coppola (news) and starring Bill Murray (news), became the most talked about movie so far at the Venice Film Festival when it made its debut Sunday.

Critics and the public alike were won over by the film, which is about two people who stumble across each other in Japan and has slightly melancholic touches.

[Taro Toporific]

Sofia Coppola, Bill Murray Steal Show in Venice

VENICE, Italy (Reuters) ...

Bill Murray cannot help being funny at Venice Film Festival
MSNBC - 1 Sept

... He finds himself in a bafflingly different world, with an incomprehensible language, puzzling manners and the constant flash of Tokyo advertisements and video games.
''It's very foreign,'' Murray said. ''Have you been there? You can't understand them -- they speak a completely different language.
''In Japan, you have no idea what they're saying, and they can't help you, either,'' he said. ''They're very polite but you feel like they're playing a joke on you. You just have to hope that they're not going to take you out and cover you in feathers.''

[Taro Toporific]

....people who stumble across each other in Japan and has slightly melancholic touches.

See also
http://wwwi.reuters.com/images/2003-08-31T143627Z_01_VEN302D_RTRIDSP_2_ARTS-VENICE.jpg
http://wwwi.reuters.com/images/2003-08-31T144838Z_01_VEN298D_RTRIDSP_2_ARTS-VENICE.jpg

[vudeja]

there is an excellent review by the nytimes here

Here he (Bill Murray) supplies the kind of performance that seems so fully realized and effortless that it can easily be mistaken for not acting at all.

btw does anyone know the Japan release date?

[Taro Toporific]

there is an excellent review by the nytimes here

Here he (Bill Murray) supplies the kind of performance that seems so fully realized and effortless that it can easily be mistaken for not acting at all.

btw does anyone know the Japan release date?

Wild guess: after New Years.

Most "art" films take 6 months. This is a semi-art flick and semi-comedy so the lull period after New Years sounds about right. Sony films get released in Japan quickly, but this is sort of an independent film so it's gonna be LOST IN TRANSLATION for months.

[Taro Toporific]

there is an excellent review by the nytimes here

btw does anyone know the Japan release date?

Today's NPR reviewed it very highly. My fav review quote was the film, " makes Tokyo oddly haunting as it is not."

The US Release Date: September 12th, 2003 (LA/NY).

[vudeja]

Sofia Coppola works on a seemingly small surface, and yet the emotional landscapes she surveys are as expansive as the ocean. She's not just the progeny of a great filmmaker, but the heir to a tradition. She's our own mini '70s revolution.

here's another good review from salon.com

[Taro Toporific]

here's another good review from salon.com

... highlights, including an eye-bulging encounter with a TV host, Mathew Minami, misrepresented as the Johnny Carson of Japan. On the contrary, he's closer to some comic nightmare in a Japanese animated film. Couldn't Bill Murray have been encouraged to ad-lib some comic commentary? You need to hear something reassuring when trying to account for Japanese facetiousness at its most stupefying.

'Translation' lifts its sagsTHE WASHINGTON TIMES / Aug 11