<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">SPECIAL SCREENING OF <span style="color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class="">HAMAGUCHI RYUSUKE</span>’S AWARD-WINNING <span style="color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class="">HAPPY HOUR</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="E07D58B1-5E49-43F8-8158-7A13D772D0A7" height="555" width="360" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image001.png@01D20DD6.D5F5E4B0" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The product of workshops with mostly newcomers to film, Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s <span style="color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class="">Happy Hour</span> has won awards around the world, including a Best Actress award at Locarno shared by its four principals. Its leisurely but emotionally dense narration of the lives of four female friends as they confront changes in their work, domestic, and romantic lives, has earned praise around the world, including most recently in <span style="color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class="">The New Yorker</span> and <span style="color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class="">The New York Times</span> as the film was recently featured in a special run at MoMA in New York. The director will be present to discuss the film.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><i class="">"Hamaguchi is a genius of scene construction, turning the fierce poetry of painfully revealing and pugnaciously wounding dialogue into powerful drama that’s sustained by a seemingly spontaneous yet analytically precise visual architecture...“Happy Hour,” a work of distinctly modern cinema, reaches deep into the classic traditions of melodrama—along with its coincidences and its violent contrasts—to revive a latent power for grand-scale observation through painfully close contact with the agonizing intimacies of contemporary life.”</i><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class="">Richard Brody, The New Yorker</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.newyorker.com_culture_richard-2Dbrody_a-2Dfive-2Dhour-2Djapanese-2Dfilm-2Dcaptures-2Dthe-2Dagonizing-2Dintimacies-2Dof-2Ddaily-2Dlife&d=CwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=VvB2qLC7c5S_rRTaNy2a-xcan4EHpg7f2kNyjdeDTpE&m=TOfZmQ9GqgLXbnzqZqUg_DBx9o4DFb5qeUdWt0zyb54&s=G2ReMkgO3UafU_3f5sekPu-mpy6JXLp8TPGnGMMCCdc&e=" style="color: purple;" class="">http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/a-five-hour-japanese-film-captures-the-agonizing-intimacies-of-daily-life</a></div></div></div></body></html>