Away with Words
Away with Words( known also by it s Chinese title 三條人, roughly translated as" Three Life- stories", and its Japanese title 孔雀, translated as" Peacock") is a 1999 auteur trilingual( Japanese, English, Cantonese) film by Christopher Doyle co-scripted by Doyle and Tony Rayns and starring Tadanobu Asano, Kevin Sherlock and Mavis Xu.
The film, shot in a jazzy, free- wheeling style and featuring Doyle's signature hyper- kinetic, oversaturated photography and eccentric humor, focuses on a trip that Asano's character takes to Hong Kong and his encounters with off- beat personalities populating the metropolitan landscape( among them, a beer- drinking amnesiac gay bar owner portrayed by Kevin Sherlock).
Another narrative thread relies on flashbacks into Asano's character's childhood in Okinawa.
The protagonist suffers from overbearing excesses of his memory, mnemonic associations and synesthesia.
The emerging human attachments provide an emotional center and a source of serenity to offset the rampage of the protagonist's mind and tame the lavish disarray of urban imagery.
The film credits Borges( presumably" Funes the Memorious") and Luria for inspiration.
Many aspects of Asano's character( memory excess, profound synesthesia, arranging memories visually along roads, wordplay, struggling with an onslaught of associations, comments about restaurant music and its effect on food taste, the waking- for- school scene) are directly borrowed from Luria's real life case study of Solomon Shereshevskii," The Mind of a Mnemonist".
The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
Bommalattam (2008 film)
Bommalattam is a 2008 Indian Tamil film directed by Bharathiraja starring Arjun Sarja and Nana Patekar in the lead roles.
Originally filmed in Hindi under the title" Cinema", the film was released first in Tamil.
Hindi version retitled" Final Cut of Director" had a limited release in 2016.
This marked Nana Patekar's Tamil film debut.
A Way with Words (disambiguation)
A Way with Words was a KPBS radio show.
A Way with Words may also refer to:
The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio
The film was released in Japan on 10 October 2009.
Single Video Theory
Single Video Theory is a music documentary directed by Mark Pellington that follows the making of "Yield", the fifth album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam.
It was released first on VHS on August 4, 1998, and then on DVD on November 24, 1998.
Rakka (film)
The film was released on YouTube and Steam on 14 June 2017.
Mazaný Filip
Mazaný Filip is a Czech comedy film.
It was released in 2003.
Based by stage play from Sklep Theatre.
Invasion of the Neptune Men
The film was released in 1961 in Japan and was later released in the United States on television.
In 1998, the film was featured on an episode of" Mystery Science Theater 3000".
Coney Island Baby (film)
Coney Island Baby is a 2003 comedy- drama in which film producer Amy Hobby made her directorial debut.
Karl Geary wrote the film and Tanya Ryno was the film's producer.
The music was composed by Ryan Shore.
The film was shot in Sligo, Ireland, which is known locally as" Coney Island".
The film was screened at the Newport International Film Festival.
Hobby won the Jury Award for" Best First Time Director".
The film made its premiere television broadcast on the Sundance Channel.
Empties
Empties is a 2007 film directed by Jan Svěrák and written by his father Zdeněk Svěrák, who also stars in the film.
It was released first in the Czech Republic in March 2007.
The film is a comedy from the same team which made Kolya.

Question: Which film was released first, Away With Words or Mazaný Filip?
Answer: Away With Words