Bong Joon-Ho + Michel Gondry + Some Other Guy = Tokyo Tales!

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1. tluper 03/02/2007 @ 7:47pm

   Do you even know who Leos Carax is? He’s far more of a “heavy hitter” than flavour of the month Bong Joon-Ho.

2. Todd Brown 03/02/2007 @ 8:50pm

   I do indeed - we actually just posted stills from Harmony Korine’s Mister Lonely, which he acts in - but in a list of directors that puts Carax with Bong and Gondry it’s a pretty clear case of ‘one of these things is not like the others’.  Bong and Gondry make a pretty good degree of sense together, Carax seems like an odd man out.

3. andrew 03/02/2007 @ 11:06pm

   bong is coming to my school tomorrow… anyone got questions they want answered?

4. Applecart 03/03/2007 @ 11:01pm

   Oh my God.  Pola X and Lovers On The Bridge!  The only two movies I’ve seen by Leos Carax and they are absolutely amazing.  Very top movies on my favorites list.  I’m extremely happy to see that he is going to sit in the director’s chair again soon.  I also like these other two directors a lot based on a single film by each director, so this short film triptych is going to be hot on my list of movies to check out in the future.

5. edward 04/02/2007 @ 10:06am

   Why do you think it was necessary for a Japanese director to do this, Todd? is it really unthinkable that foreigners can direct a film set outwith their home countries? does it really ‘beg the obvious question’, as you say. i’m sure it’s happened thousands of times! what did you mean… you’re just being silly. i’m sure they know plenty about Tokyo too, at least Bong certainly will, being from just across the water. In any case, you don’t need a Japanese director to do films set in Tokyo, like Ang Lee didn’t need Americans or British to direct with him on his films, for example.

6. Todd 04/02/2007 @ 12:17pm

   It’s not entirely essential, no, but it’s very odd to do an anthology film about a particular location with nobody from that location involved.  How would people have reacted if Paris, Je T’Aime had no french people involved?

7. Edward 04/15/2007 @ 6:17am

   I think a Japanese woman is producing this though. Although she is French-Japanese i think! she’s called Anne Pernod-Sawada.

8. Hugo 04/17/2007 @ 12:55pm

   Shame on you for not being more familiar with Carax. Nonetheless this is great news, and in my opinion I’d be more worried about Gondry and Joon-Ho coming up with something that would rival our man Leos’ work.

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