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Donald is coming to the US in April and we've just arranged a fun event
via Berkeley Arts & Letters (formerly the Cody's Books events
series):<br><br>
<b>Tuesday, April 21<br><br>
A Life in Japanese Film:<br><br>
<u>DONALD RICHIE in conversation with TOM LUDDY<br><br>
</u> </b>?During the last fifty years, Donald Richie has been our
greatest guide to the East. An outsider turned insider -- a beautiful and
subtle writer with an eye for the wild life as well as an ear for the
silences of Japan.? --Michael Ondaatje<br>
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Praised by critics from Susan Sontag to Tom Wolfe, Donald Richie was born
in Ohio in 1924 and has lived in Japan since 1947, except for time at
Columbia University in the early 1950s and as curator of film at New
York's Museum of Modern Art, 1968?73. The author of some thirty books and
dozens of essays, Richie is especially well known for his instrumental
role in introducing Japanese film to the West and for his travel memoir
The Inland Sea, which was adapted into a popular PBS documentary. In
addition to The Inland Sea, his books published by Berkeley-based Stone
Bridge Press include Travels in the East, A Tractate on Japanese
Aesthetics, The Donald Richie Reader, and The Japan Journals. He recently
wrote the forewords to A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors by
Alexander Jacoby, and Waiting on the Weather: Making Movies with Akira
Kurosawa by Teruyo Nogami.<br><br>
Richie is also an experimental filmmaker. In 1988, he was invited to be
the first guest director at the Telluride Film Festival. At this special
evening of recollection and conversation, Richie will discuss Japan and
his insights into Japanese culture and especially Japanese film with Tom
Luddy, co-founder and current co-director of the Telluride Film Festival
and an executive and film producer with American Zoetrope.<br><br>
<b>7:30 PM at First Congregational Church of Berkeley/$10 ($5 students)
at the door; co-sponsored by The Booksmith<br><br>
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Hope to see some KineJapaners there!<br>
Ari<br><br>
<font size=2 color="#808080">Ari Messer<br>
Stone Bridge Press<br>
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