Title: Toho Screening: MOTHRA & BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE
Description: Double Feature in San Francisco on 03/20
Description: Double Feature in San Francisco on 03/20
August Ragone - February 27, 2008 08:16 PM (GMT)
Click on the banner below (in my signature) to check out the information on the upcoming screening at the Clay Theater in San Francisco, featuring 35mm prints of the original MOTHRA (1961, in Japanese w/English subtitles) and BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE (1959, English dubbed version). Local Japanese Toy Culture entrepreneurs, Super 7, will be on hand to sell related merchandise and I will be signing copies of my book, "Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters" in the lobby.
Brian Camp - February 28, 2008 12:19 AM (GMT)
I saw BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE on the big screen at the Film Forum a few years ago and it was quite a revelation. I remember a sequence involving a moon ground transport vehicle taking the astronauts from one part of the moon to another and they had these fantastic P-O-V shots from inside the vehicle showing the passing moonscape that made me feel like it was actually filmed on the moon. The actual moon landing shots from nine years later pale in comparison.
MOTHRA, of course, is a great movie anyway and needs no further words from me. However, coincidentally, I only recently discovered some music videos of the Peanuts (the twin sister act that plays the diminutive island fairies whose song summons Mothra) while researching songs performed by two girls from Morning Musume who formed a duo called W and covered a lot of songs done by earlier J-pop duos including the Peanuts. I posted comparison links on my J-pop-themed blog to the different versions.
Here's the link to the Peanuts music video compilation (3 in one):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CzFppQFcKs
MOTHRA, of course, is a great movie anyway and needs no further words from me. However, coincidentally, I only recently discovered some music videos of the Peanuts (the twin sister act that plays the diminutive island fairies whose song summons Mothra) while researching songs performed by two girls from Morning Musume who formed a duo called W and covered a lot of songs done by earlier J-pop duos including the Peanuts. I posted comparison links on my J-pop-themed blog to the different versions.
Here's the link to the Peanuts music video compilation (3 in one):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CzFppQFcKs
August Ragone - March 17, 2008 08:25 AM (GMT)
I love both of these films, and I am really happy that we got to play them together -- these are great examples of Tsuburaya's work during the Golden Age at Toho Studios. I hope that those in the San Francisco Bay Area will be able to check out this double feature!
Additionally, I also added stories on each film to my blog THE GOOD, THE BAD AND GODZILLA — check them out!
August Ragone - March 19, 2008 12:32 AM (GMT)
Chronicle Books Blog published an interview with me about the two films screening on Thursday:
Chronicle Books Blog!
The show was also featured in the San Francisco Examiner:
Chronicle Books Blog!
The show was also featured in the San Francisco Examiner:
August Ragone - March 21, 2008 08:11 AM (GMT)
Just got back... Two gorgeous prints... good turn out... signed a lot of books... ILM visual effects wizard Dennis Muren was there (and stayed for both films)! I'm beat! :)