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Article: Computer love
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- The Village Voice
- Article date:
- February 26, 2002
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FILM COMMENT SELECTS:
FOCUS ON NEW JAPANESE CINEMA
Walter Reade February 21 through 28
Since the late 1990s, an insatiable home video market has egged on a generation of Japanese genre-smearers -some of whom began via film criticism or in the prodigious sex film industry-to delirious heights, inevitably resulting in stutters about a "new new wave." The Walter Reade's Japanese showcase includes two graceful, classical sifts through WWII's ashes: Makoto Shinozaki's exemplary veterans' elegy, Not Forgotten, and Nobuhiro Suwa's Hiroshima Man Amour remix, H-- Story. But the two most aesthetically arresting movies in the series are technological-terror flicks: Hideo Nakata's mega-popular Ring ...