Eureka

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If you liked Eureka an even (much) better film with something of a similar style is Carlos Reygadas's JapĆ³n. If it ever finds a distributor, see it!

Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Can I get that (Japon) on DVD in the UK?

Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 13 January 2003 23:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, it's been playing festivals for about a year but per the IMDB (if it is to be trusted) will open in the UK this February:

Netherlands 27 January 2002 (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
France 17 May 2002 (Cannes Film Festival)
Russia 26 June 2002 (Moscow Film Festival)
Belgium 4 July 2002 (Cinedecouvertes Age D'or Film Festival Brussels)
Czech Republic 8 July 2002 (Karlovy Vary Film Festival)
Canada 6 September 2002 (Toronto Film Festival)
Belgium 2 October 2002
Ireland 12 October 2002 (Cork International Film Festival)
Poland 10 January 2003
France 15 January 2003
UK 21 February 2003

Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 23:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

two months pass...
Run, do not walk, run and see Japon.

Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 20:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

three months pass...
Or rather, don't.

Sommermute (Wintermute), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 12:18 (twenty years ago) link

You didn't like?

amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 14:11 (twenty years ago) link

Oh no, it was OK. The story was slow and pointless, acting and camera work were beyond shittyness most of the time, but the film had its moments. All I'm saying is that I would have liked it more if I hadn't run to the cinema.

Sommermute (Wintermute), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 17:48 (twenty years ago) link

I thought the camerawork was often quite amazing. The Solaris-inspired sequence with the Arvo Part and the dying horse etc. was a bit much.

amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 17:56 (twenty years ago) link

six years pass...

I am searching to source some incredible 2nd line footage featuring the Eureka Brass Band. None of the major libraries seem to recognize it...so I'm throwing it out to fans to help with the hunt...

klthorson, Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link

didn't understand a gd minute of this. theresa russell was p hot tho

free the charmless but occasionally brilliant Dom Passantino (history mayne), Friday, 29 January 2010 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link

me neither but still, it's a fun ride.

jed_, Friday, 29 January 2010 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link

three months pass...

you can look around kyushu on streetview. i wanted to go there after seeing this anyhow.

has anyone seen anything else of aoyama's?

two years pass...

some weeks i can't get this film out of my head. even its potential corniness/melodrama is transformed into something else. it speaks to me, maaaan.

Sarushima baby jive (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link

yeah i was thinking about it the other day, it's a beautiful film

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link

i've seen Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani? (2005) his film about some apocalyptically inclined noise dudes which i don't remember well but it was rather good without approaching eureka

the rest of his recent work seems quite mainstream going by the synopses, i am mindful of watching some of them eventually but i retain the hope he returns to the long take 4 hour sepiatone elegies

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago) link

yeah i don't know why i haven't tracked down anything else he's done. i guess Eureka feels like a spectacular one-off in many ways, and as i say you can easily imagine it slipping into excess if it wasn't for the fantastic pacing and the spooked-out tone

Sarushima baby jive (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link

my favourite film of the 2000s probably

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link


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