Satoshi Kon at the Lincoln Center, NYC
If you live in New York City, or plan to be there this weekend, just a heads up: the Lincoln Center is hosting a retrospective of anime maestro Satoshi Kon’s work, dubbed ‘Satoshi Kon: Beyond Imagination‘. It’s things like this that make me wish I still lived in New Jersey (sniff).
The New York Sun gives prospective attendees a glimpse of what to expect.
Hitchcock was an exquisite motion picture craftsman who, like Mr. Kon, was wary of his own medium. He channeled his suspicion about heroic behavior stemming from self-serving motives into Jimmy Stewart’s kinky character in “Vertigo,” and his belief that moviegoing was inherently sadistic provided the meaty subtext for “Rear Window.” Mr. Kon embodies the same ambivalence, despising anime for its laziness and its substitution of safe yet empty spectacle for authentic but messy experience. In an early interview, he slipped a dagger in the ribs of anime artists when he dismissed their obsession with beautiful little girls and giant robots as “a little sad.” The movie he had just made, “Perfect Blue,” was more than a little sad. It was downright devastating.
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