As part of the “Lost Future”-series, which is one of the many facets of BFI Japan, there will be a screening of Shunji Iwai‘s “All About Lily Chou-Chou“, which hasn’t been screened since its UK debut in 2001.
The movie shows us a group of teenagers who meet online after becoming obsessed with a J-Pop starlet (Lily Chou-Chou) and it explores the onset of online communities in the early internet era of the millennium. It is a very dark and emotional story as well as visually interesting, as a quite dazzling early foray into digital cinematography.
Shunji Iwai’s All About Lily Chou-Chou Coming Back To UK cinemas for its 20th Anniversary
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Rouven Linnarz
Ever since I watched Takeshi Kitano's "Hana-Bi" for the first time (and many times after that) I have been a cinephile. While much can be said about the technical aspects of film, coming from a small town in Germany, I cherish the notion of art showing its audience something which one does normally avoid, neglect or is unable to see for many different reasons. Often the stories told in films have helped me understand, discover and connect to something new which is a concept I would like to convey in the way I talk and write about films. Thus, I try to include some info on the background of each film as well as a short analysis (without spoilers, of course), an approach which should reflect the context of a work of art no matter what genre, director or cast. In the end, I hope to pass on my joy of watching film and talking about it.
