FFM 2016 annonce les « Chelems d’or »

Le Festival des Films du Monde de Montréal, qui se tiendra du 25 août au 5 septembre 2016, commence déjà à faire parler de lui.

Dans un premier communiqué de presse, daté du 13 mai, le FFM annonce que pour son 40e anniversaire il accompagnera ses principaux prix de bourses importantes avec la présentation des premiers « Chelems d’or » du cinéma. Grâce à un généreux mécène, un montant de 1 M $ US sera remis aux producteurs et réalisateurs (sur une base de 50% chacun) afin de contribuer de façon unique à la création cinématographique. La somme total sera divisé en treize bourses de tailles variées: Grand prix des Amériques, Grand prix du jury, Prix FFM du court métrage, compétition mondiale des premiers longs métrages de fiction (or, argent, bronze), prix du documentaire, du meilleurs film canadien (or, argent), compétition spéciale des films chinois (or, argent), et prix du festival du film étudiant (national, international).

Avec une telle innovation qui vise à encourager la relève cinématographique, le festival espère se repositionner comme un centre important du cinéma mondial.

(Voir le communiqué de presse original en français et en anglais)

(Revue de presse: CTVM, La Presse, Le Devoir)

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Weekly notable news [week 31]

Here are a few notable news & links that I came across this week:

• Review of Yowamushi Pedal Vol. 1 (ICv2)
• MWFF announces “Golden Chelem” with 13 cash prizes (link)
• How to stop being annoyed by life (CNN)
• The Geological Features That Inspired Hell In Dante's Divine Comedy (Forbes)
• The New CBS Star Trek Series Is Called Star Trek: Discovery (Popular Science)
• André Forcier’s Kiss Me Like a Lover to open 40th Montreal World Film Festival (link)
• New Images from Valerian (ICv2)
• Master Saga Sourcebook for Robotech RPG in August (ICv2)
• Billy Bat Manga to End in 3 More Chapters (ANN, AnimeLand)
• Live-Action Ghost in the Shell Film's Cyborg Designs Unveiled (ANN, AnimeLand)
• Mobile Police Patlabor Reboot Short Anime Announced for October (ANN)
• Super Dimension Fortress Macross Begins English-Subtitled Streaming on Amazon (ANN)
• Jupiter's Great Red Spot 'roars with heat' (BBC)
• Latest app update lets you control your Nest thermostat from your Apple Watch (9to5Mac)
• Prisma will soon offer video editing (Android Authority)
• Babylon 5 actor Jerry Doyle dies aged 60 (BBC)
• Lettuce towers and office block farms: is this the future? (BBC)
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Book Comes Out Tonight (io9, BBC)
• Game of Thrones to end after season eight in 2018 (BBC, io9)
• Gibraltar caves reveal Neanderthals' secrets (BBC)

Funnies

Non Sequitur: Monday, March 21, 2016 (The two-party detour)

Dilbert: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 (The Elbonian Religion)

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Ice Age chronicle of the earth, vol. 1 & 2

Vol. 1: “Dans le futur, tandis que l’humanité tente tant bien que mal de survivre aux conséquences d’un nouvel âge glaciaire, Takéru va devoir se lancer dans une odyssée afin de sauver ses compagnons. À son bras, un bracelet sacré en argent, seul souvenir qui lui reste de sa mère…”

“Saura-t-il faire face à son destin ?”

Vol. 2: “Dans le futur, alors que la fin de l’âge glaciaire se fait sentir, tous les êtres vivants se lancent dans une nouvelle course à l’évolution. Guidé par un Medishin, un Dieu bleu, Takéru devra affronter la Grande Mère pour résoudre le mystère A-D-O-L-F… Le destin de l’humanité pourrait en dépendre…”

Découvrez ce diptyque mythique et visionnaire signé Jirô Taniguchi !

(Texte du site de l'éditeur: Vol. 1 & Vol. 2; voir les couvertures arrières: Vol. 1 & Vol. 2)

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(Nikkon D3300, 2016-06-26)

Le chat du Rabbin 06: Tu n'auras pas d'autre dieu que moi

“Le grand retour du Chat du rabbin !”

“Le Chat est désespéré : sa maîtresse, Zlabya, est enceinte... Que va-t-il se passer ? S'intéressera-t-elle encore à lui ? Pourra-t-il encore être caressé, pourra-t-il la voir quand il le voudra ? Quelle sera sa place ? Ne devrait-il pas partir et chercher une autre maison ?”

“Joann Sfar retrouve avec un bonheur évident l'univers du Chat du rabbin et livre une éblouissante histoire pleine de tendresse et d'amour.”

[ Texte du site de l'éditeur; voir aussi la couverture arrière ]



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Animeland #209

“AnimeLand est le 1er magazine français sur l'animation japonaise et internationale, les mangas et tout l'univers otaku en France. News, chroniques, interviews, articles et dossiers vous attendent dans les magazines AnimeLand et AnimeLand X-tra et sur le site AnimeLand.com !”

Comme je l'ai déjà mentionné dans un article précédent (sur l'acquisition du magazine par Anime News Network), j'ai toujours grandement admiré ce magazine fondé par Yvan West Laurence et Cédrik Littardi en avril 1991 (que j'avais d'ailleurs rencontré à San Jose, Californie, lors de la toute première convention nord-américaine entièrement consacrée à l'anime, AnimeCon, à la fin de l'été 1991). AnimeLand est rapidement devenu le meilleurs magazine sur l'anime et le manga hors-Japon et pas seulement en langue française. À tout les deux mois le magazine offre une centaines de pages, toutes en couleurs, pleine à craquer d'information essentielle sur l'anime et le manga. Un must pour le fan averti.

AnimeLand #209 est un numéro un peu spécial car, en plus d'être un peu plus volumineux, il célèbre le vingt-cinquième anniversaire du magazine.

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Haikus par Soseki

“Si Sôseki le romancier est de longue date traduit et commenté chez nous, une part plus secrète et à la fois plus familière de son œuvre nous est encore inconnue. Sôseki a écrit plus de 2500 haikus, de sa jeunesse aux dernières années de sa vie : moments de grâce, libérés de l’étouffante pression de la vie réelle, où l’esprit fait halte au seuil d’un poème, dans une intense plénitude.”

“Affranchis de la question de leur qualité littéraire, ils ont à mes yeux une valeur inestimable, puisqu’ils sont pour moi le souvenir de la paix dans cœur… Simplement, je serais heureux si les sentiments qui m’habitaient alors et me faisaient vivre résonnaient, avec le moins de décalage possible, dans le cœur du lecteur.“

“Ce livre propose un choix de 135 haïkus, illustrés de peintures et calligraphies de l’auteur, précédés d’une préface par l’éditeur de ses Œuvres complètes au Japon.”

(Texte du site de l'éditeur; voir aussi la couverture arrière)

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Il serait peut-être temps de montrer un peu les fleurs de notre jardin…

Asteraceae: Zinnia

(iPhone 6s, 2016-07-23)

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♪ Trois P'tits Chats… ♬

(iPhone 6s, 2016-06-27)

A few more notable news

Here are a few notable news & links (mostly anime & manga related) that I came across recently:

• A world without books is a fearful place to imagine (PressReader / The Gazette)
• Japanese Films at the Fantasia International Film Festival (Coco Montreal / Issuu July 2016)
• Drawing on the past of Osamu Tezuka (The Japan Times)
• Ancient Stupa Holding Bone of Buddha Discovered (Live Science)
• Five Manga, One Light Novel, and an OGN from Yen revealed at AX (ICv2)
• VIZ Announces New Manga Licenses (ICv2)
• GKIDS Picks Up North American Rights to 'Miss Hokusai' (The Wrap / ANN)
• Montreal's Fantasia Int'l Film Festival to Screen Anime and Manga-related Live-Action Films (ANN)
• Anime Expo Manga Announcement Round-Up (ICv2)
• New Cast Members for 'Blade Runner' Sequel (ICv2)
• Nest Cam Outdoor upgrades original Nest Cam with more rugged design (Apple Insider)
• Fashionable 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Found in a Saalburg's Well, Germany (Open Culture, Inquirer, Direct Matin). There was a similar discovery in Uttoxeter, UK, in 2010 (Archaeology News Network)
• The Chronicles of Amber TV Series Could Be the Next Game of Thrones (IO9)
• Drawn & Quarterly to Publish Guy Delisle's 'Hostage' in 2017 (ICv2). The original french version, S'enfuir, récit d'un otage, will be publish by Dargaud in September 2016 (link)
• TOHO's 'Godzilla Resurgence' Gets U.S. Release (ICv2)
• 'The Walking Dead' Season 7 Comic-Con Trailer (ICv2)
• Kodansha Comics to Release Deluxe Edition of Ghost in the Shell Manga (ANN)
• Shigeru Mizuki's Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan Wins Eisner Award (ANN)

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Tulipe : “Princess Irene”

(Nikon D3300, Ottawa's Canadian Tulip Festival, 2016-05-12)
[Taken with Tamron 70-300mm lens: ƒ/5.6, FL= 300mm, 1/2000, ISO 400]

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Tulipe : “Red Impression”

(Nikon D3300, Ottawa's Canadian Tulip Festival, 2016-05-12)
[Taken with Tamron 70-300mm lens: ƒ/5.6, FL= 300mm, 1/2000, ISO 360]

Cat-urday's picture

A drone-view of the whole family

(iPhone 6s, 2016-06-27)

Japanese movies at Fantasia 2016

This week the programmation for the 20th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival was announced. Twenty years, that’s worth celebrating! It will be held in Montreal from July 14 to August 3 and screenings will take place mostly at Concordia's Theatre Hall and Salle J.A. de Sève. For more programming details you can check the festival's web page at www.fantasiafestival.com, this year’s program [PDF] and screening schedule [PDF].

This year the festival offers 60 movies from Asia: 5 from China, 26 from Japan, 20 from Korea, 6 from Hong Kong, 1 from Taiwan, and 2 from Thailand.

As usual, we will concentrate our interest on the Japanese program that includes 4 anime (in total you can also find 33 other animated features — 29 shorts and 8 movies — from various countries). Besides Momotaro, Sacred Sailors, which is probably one of the first anime ever produced in Japan, there’s nothing out of the ordinary among those titles — although we’ve noticed that there’s lots of manga adaptations. Here's a list of all the Japanese titles (with links to full description):

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Tulipe : “Yellow Pomponette + Sun lover + Purple Jacket”

(Nikon D3300, Ottawa's Canadian Tulip Festival, 2016-05-12)
[Taken with Tamron 70-300mm lens: ƒ/5.6, FL= 135mm, 1/500, ISO 250]

Funnies forever

Here (after the break) are a few notably funny comic strips that I found in the last few months…

Starting with Unshelved, the web comics about the staff (and patrons) of a rather dysfunctional library. I caught up on several months of strips to realize that artist Bill Barnes decided to take a break and was replaced by occasional contributor Chris Hallbeck. It doesn't change anything. Here are a few of my favourites (believe it or not I've experienced many of those situations):

A few notable news

Here are a few notable news & links (mostly anime & manga related) that I came across recently:

• Find your local library on the social networks [link]
• A Jirô Taniguchi's one shot published in issue #8 & #9 of Big Comic (april 2016). Titled Izuko ni ka, it is set in Tokyo during the Meiji era [Animeland, in french]
• Viz announced that it will released Tomie, horror master Junjo Ito’s first manga series, into a single omnibus hardcover [ICv2]
• Kadokawa announced in april that it has Purchased 51% Stake in Yen Press, therefore entering into a joint venture with New York-based publishing company Hachette Book Group to publish manga and light novels in English. [ANN]
• More than half of N.L. libraries closing in wake of budget cuts. Therefore, Let's not take Montreal's public libraries for granted [CBC, The Gazette]
• Crackle has announced that it has acquired streaming rights to Harmony Gold's Robotech 85-episode television series and the Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles feature film. It will be available from May 15. Crackle has launched an anime channel that play like linear television, but content is also available on demand. Sony, Crackle parent company, also announced last year that it was planning a live-action Robotech film. [ANN]
• FUNimation announced in May that it has licensed the restored edition of the 1944 anime film Momotaro, Sacred Sailors (Momotaro: Umi no Shinpei)— probably one of the earliest animation produced in Japan — for home video distribution in the United States and Canada. [ANN]
• Director Luc Besson has been steadily sharing new images from his new stylish sci-fi epic movie, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, on his Facebook and Instagram accounts [ICv2]
• TMS announced a new television anime production titled Trickster: Edogawa Rampo 'Shōnen Tantei-dan' Yori (Trickster: From Rampo Edogawa's "The Boy Detectives Club"). It will air in October on Tokyo MX and Yomiuri TV. It is based on Shōnen Tantei-dan (The Boy Detectives Club), a 1937 series of novels by renowned Japanese mystery novelist Edogawa Rampo. A manga adaptation will also begin in the July issue of Kodansha's Magazine Special [ANN]
• No job is safe from the robots: Robo librarian tracks down misplaced books ! [Popular Science]
• A Battlestar Galactica reboot? According to Deadline, a Battlestar Galactica feature, based on the 1978 Glen Larson TV series, is in the works at Universal. Lisa Joy (Westworld) would write the script and Francis Lawrence (Hunger Games) could direct [ICv2]
• Titan Comics has announced the acquisition of the right to create a new Robotech comic book series. Several comic adaptations have already been published: it started in 1984 with DC’s Robotech Defenders, followed by stories from Comico, Eternity, Wildstorm, and Dynamite, which published a Robotech/Voltron crossover graphic novel in 2015 [ICv2]
• Aardvark-Vanaheim has announced that it will release a new five-part Cerebus miniseries, Cerebus in Hell, beginning in October, and continuing in January through April of 2017 [ICv2]
• Pokemon TV app is now also available on Apple TV. The app, which offers every episodes of the anime series, was first available since 2013 for iOS and Android devices [IGN]
• The trend continues: after the announcement of live-action adaptation from anime like Ghost in the Shell, Battle Angel Alita, Yowamushi Pedal and Fullmetal Alchemist, now they are talking about adaptations for Gintama, Peach Girl, and even an americanized version of Death Note ! [Animeland, ICv2]
• Vertical announced that it has licensed NisiOisin and VOFAN's Nisemonogatari light novel series. The first of two novels is slated for April 2017 [ANN]

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Un père moderne
J'ai rarement vu un papa-chat aussi dévoué pour ses chatons

(iPhone 6s, 2016-06-26)

Fragments d'été

Rayons de lumière sur le parc

(iPhone 6s, 2016-06-28)

Créatures du jardin

(iPhone 6s, 2016-06-28 & 2016-07-01)