<div>I saw the film at the Mental Health film festival (in an informal double bill with Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly) at the ICA a few years ago. fantastic stuff, even though i missed out on the crazy Jazz drumming. Fingers crossed for a DVD. Jasper, i'd be interested to hear more about the reasons why Criterion didn't want to put the film out...
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<div>Dean<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 02/04/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">J.sharp</b> <<a href="mailto:j.sharp@hpo.net">j.sharp@hpo.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I wonder if this special screening / restoration might finally lead to a DVD<br>release. Its always amazed me how this was never available (grey market
<br>aside) on video/dvd in Japan, and there was clearly good reasons why no one<br>like Criterion had put it out, given the films reputation and historical<br>importance.<br>This just played in Bristol about a fortnight ago, along with a live
<br>accompaniment from some crazy jazz drummer and preceded by a screening of<br>Serene Velocity. I'm not sure if my wife has forgiven me for dragging her<br>along to the event yet, but hell, I enjoyed it!<br><br>Jasper
<br><br><br>--------- Original Message --------<br>From: <a href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a><br>To: KineJapan <<a href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">
KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a>>, H-NET List for Scholarly<br>Studies and Uses of Media <<a href="mailto:H-FILM@H-NET.MSU.EDU">H-FILM@H-NET.MSU.EDU</a>><br>Subject: A Page of Madness/ Special Screening<br>
Date: 01/04/07 14:48<br><br>> As a special event to mark the Tokyo meeting of FIAF (Fédération<br>International des Archives du Film), the National Film Center and Asahi<br>Shinbun (Asahi News) are sponsoring a special screening of a newly restored
<br>A Page of Madness. The event will take place at Asahi Yuraku-cho Hall on<br>Sunday 8 April, 2007 at 19:30. (All seats reserved.) This new restoration is<br>similar to the print currently in circulation; both derive from a print of
<br>the film found in Kinugasa's house in 1971, a print that is believed to be a<br>shortened version of the 1926 original. This new restoration, however,<br>returns the film to the original aspect ratio common in the "silent" era,
<br>1:1.33 The screening features piano accompaniment by Takahashi<br>Yuuji.-----Jonathan M. HallJapanese Film, Media, and Modern<br>LiteratureAssistant Professor, Comparative Literature / Film &amp; Media<br>Studies320 Humanities Instructional BuildingUC Irvine, Irvine CA 92697-2651
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