We’ve already alerted you to one cool event happening in LA in conjunction with Singafest, and now there’s another that should be on your radar. This festival is being co-sponsored by Bigfoot, the company that keeps this site afloat, so naturally we want to help however we can and we think you’ll be interested…
Horror director and Tarantino Disciple Eli Roth has been selected as one of the festival’s guests, and was given the chance to pick out any Asian film he wished for a special screening. Naturally, Roth chose an especially obscure and weird film called Getting Any? from actor/director Takeshi Kitano (aka Beat Takeshi). It took tracking down a 35mm print in France, but the film will screen on October 2nd.
I’ve never seen this very bizarre-sounding little movie, but the best synopsis I found promises a movie crammed to capacity with batshit weirdness…
Asao is a daydreamer who fantasizes about having wild, passionate sex in a car. Since he has neither a car nor a girlfriend, he embarks on a series of slapstick adventures in search of both: he sells his grandfather’s internal organs, robs a bank, steals an armored car, searches for buried treasure, becomes an actor in a Zatoichi movie, joins the yakuza, and even becomes an experimental subject in a human-invisibility project.
I can see why Eli picked it. If you want to hit the Sunday, 4:30pm screening at the Crest Theater, then just hop over to Fandango right here.
If you’re not familiar with Kitano (the director of the film and star of many others you’ve likely seen) then skim his filmography.
Also note that Roth himself will be at the screening on Sunday, so go see and be seen if you’re in L.A…