The audition from hell...

Advantages: Genuinely creepy
Disadvantages: Very slow start will put some off

...Aoyama is a successful company director who unfortunately loses his wife while his son is still very young. A few years later, at the bidding of his son, he decides to go about looking for a wife. His friend comes up with a rather novel way of finding one; together they audition a thousand women for a potential film. Yamazaki Asami immediately attracts his attention, and when he actually meets her in person, he falls in love with her. For a while, the feeling seems to be mutual, then Asami goes missing. Investigation proves that Asami is not all that she seemed to be. Will Aoyama ever see Asami again. More importantly, will he ever find out the truth about her? The one thing that first struck me about this film is that it is not your typical Asian horror - and considering this film is directed by Takashi Miike, who is also...

sunmeilan 23.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Audition (DVD)

MANN Countrywide (part of Countrywide Assured)

Advantages: Erm... they didn't smell too bad
Disadvantages: Takes advantage of the first time buyer! never calls - see below for rest of story...

...emotions to get a quick sale. Lee also managed to sell us "Countrywide Assured" buildings and contents insurance, even though the buildings insurance is included in the maintanence charges for the flat - we've only just found out, 2 years later - all that money wasted :`( And they never phone when they say they will - ever! I'll never again use them to buy or sell a property, and advise all first time buyers to take someone who has been through this process before when viewing properties/speaking to estate agents etc... and if they are told something which seems too good to be true, like wooden flooring, ask for it in writing!!! Then at least you have proof to complain if you need to....

kung-fu-jams 15.01.2004 · Read review
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Review of Countrywide Assured

Auditioning for East 15

Advantages: Probably the best school to offer an MA. Not at all pretentious.
Disadvantages: Rapidly improving reputation but doesn't have the prestige of some drama schools

...I had a different experience of auditioning for east 15 than lubbly jubbly. I admit I came to audition for East 15 with prejudice. I had first heard of East 15 back in the 80s when I studied Theatre and Performing Arts at a local college. East 15 was not particularly highly thought of at the time. I spent 15 years working in the real world before deciding to make a leap of faith and return to my first love, Acting. I auditioned for East 15 because of advice from my drama tutor who insisted East 15 was extremely up and coming and was now giving competition to schools such as Mountview, Rose Bruford, Central and LAMDA. He really rated it. In fact he knew people who chose to go to East 15 over these schools. I still attended with prejudice however. I was surprised to find I loved the place and thought the audition process was very...

adrianrelph 24.03.2008 (30.11.2009) · Read review
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Review of East 15 Acting School (London)

She always gets a part

Advantages: Beautifully paced, acted, directed, shot
Disadvantages: An acquired taste

...think) but it's only been in the last few months that I've started to explore the mad, demented world of Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike one of the front runners of the recent extreme Asian cinema boom. Miike is extremely prolific (sometimes making up to six films a year. Six!) but only a handful seem to have made their way over to the west with any real exposure. 'Ichi The Killer' (2001) is one of his best known as is (to a slightly lesser extent) 'Visitor Q' (2001); both are films that take their audience on a visceral ride of depravity. The other day, I took a look at Miike's 'Audition', the film that first brought the west's attention to him and the very bizarre cinematic corner of the world in which he operates. Now when I did my usual initial research before watching this, I was informed that 'Audition' is a film that works better if...

Markula 23.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Audition (Collector's Edition) (DVD)

Kiri, Kiri, Kiri!!

Advantages: Stylish Japanese Horror
Disadvantages: Slow in parts, extreme scenes of torture and horror

...Audition (or Oodishon) is a Japanese film with English subtitles by director Takashi Miike based on a novel by Ryu Murakami. The Plot -------- The film begins with a man by his wife's bed in a hospital and cuts to a scene of a young boy bringing a birthday cake down the hospital corridor. Back to the bed and the woman dies just before the boy enters the room. We now go 7 years on to find the man, Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) living with his now teenage son. The boy suggests to his father that he should perhaps re-marry. Aoyama considers this and one day in a bar with a film maker friend he declares his intention. He asks "Where have all the good girls gone?". His friend asks what sort of woman he is looking for and Aoyama says someone mature who has some 'accomplishments' like being able to play piano. His friend suggests...

buzios 03.11.2003 (05.11.2003) · Read review
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Review of Audition (Oodishon)

She Always Gets The Part

Advantages: Nice set-up | Disturbing
Disadvantages: Slow paced | Disturbing

...Hype can ruin a film. There is a fine line between getting enough attention to make a film popular and then getting too much attention that it will help break a film. This is why I implore any of you who haven?t heard much of this film but maybe want to see it at some point to stop reading this review now. It is best to see this film totally without knowledge of what it is supposedly hyped about in the press because it seems to have been twisted into something it seemingly wasn?t really set out to be. This review will touch upon those aspects so this is the final warning to stop reading for those who?ve seen it or don?t mind the effect of the film being slightly lessened then read on. Audition follows the story of Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) who, at the suggestion of his son, sets out to find a new wife after his first one died seven...

3rdRockSatan 24.11.2003 · Read review
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Review of Audition (Oodishon)

Assured domination

Advantages: Very entertaining to watch
Disadvantages: Odds will be very short on an Australian series win

...of Test Cricket that this has happened, and Australia have been the losing side on all three occasions!), and then Singh helped bowl India to another victory in the deciding Test. The Aussies are now in England for the Ashes series, and have warmed up for the triangular Natwest series in uninspiring form - a lacklustre performance against Middlesex, which they lost and then a lucky tie against Northants, who really should have scored the winning run. However they showed their true electrifying form in destroying the Pakistan side that had destoryed England two days before, with Ricky Ponting, a man whose Test place is still not assured, battering 70* in 68 balls, with Mark Waugh supporting him, as Australia won with 5 overs to spare in the end. Then against England, they came through to win in the last over with Ponting having made 102...

Morgenhund 08.10.2000 (11.06.2001) · Read review
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Review of Australia

For Dale - Your Audition

Advantages: With these songs, The final will only be seconds away
Disadvantages: Unsure about some of theme

...Let me tell you a bit about why I am writing this first. I am Dkenny's (other member of Ciao) brother-in-law and have heard her sing several times. My brother adores her voice. On Thursday morning they came round to my house, as they always do, but something was different, Dale was ecstatic!! I mean she is usually cheery but this tip me had a skip in her step and a grin as broad as The Millenium Bridge. So I was curious as to what had happened. Well she had only went and got herself an audition on the TV show Popstars. For those of you who don't know what Popstars is, it is a tv factual programme on ITV. It starts where people go for an audition to be on a band and each of the auditions are shown until they have the band. Dale had sent her tape off, and she was nervous as hell, I know, she loves Drink and she wouldn't even touch...

PKenny01 04.08.2002 · Read review
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Review of Top 10 Songs of All Time

A miracle, i can assure you

Advantages: It successfuly stops excessive sweating
Disadvantages: Can cause skin irritation

...and itching, but was successfully sorted two nights after (I didn't put on the solution the next night, but the night after. The sweating was still controlled). Be careful to use this sparingly, as it's very strong and can put you through agony if too much is applied, as i unfortunately found a week after use. I'm now as happy, and confident as ever and i'm able to wear whatever i like without the constant worry and concern. A miracle, i can assure you....

strawberry.shortcake 10.08.2008 (11.08.2008) · Read review
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Review of Driclor

Auditions and jobs are us!

Advantages: Cheap and full of information!
Disadvantages: Some ad's may not apply!

...Like most others in the industry i find it very hard to find out about jobs and auditions with out an agent. The Stage is one of the sources that i use to get work. The stage is a weekly paper issued on a Wednesday in London and a Thursday everywhere else and it only costs £1 it avalible for purchase from WH Smiths. For those of you who have access to the internet you can also read online at www.thestagetheatrenews.com The paper is full of information about the industry keeping you update with whats going on, reveiws and information about drama schools and summer courses! The most exciting section for me is Job's and auditoins! Her are some examples of the sorts of adverts you may find in the paper: Jobs: Admin Promotional Work Bar/Waitressing Telephone Sales Auditions: TIE Touring/Frindge Open Auditions...

LIZKEMPO 22.10.2003 (23.10.2003) · Read review
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