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<p class="ydp33b8609bMsoNormal">Dear KineJapaners,</p>
<p class="ydp33b8609bMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">I thought I’d just mention <i>Il Cinema Ritrovato</i> for 2023, whose
full programme is now up <a href="https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/programma/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/programma/</a></p>
<p class="ydp33b8609bMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">I haven’t yet had time to go fully though it, as I’m deep into <i>Nippon
Connection</i> here in Frankfurt but the Japanese director
featured this year is KINUGASA Teinosuke.</p>
<p class="ydp33b8609bMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Whilst not being a large retrospective, it has two post-war films I have
not seen, and a 14-minute fragment from the 1927 <i>Oni Izami</i>, recently
recovered from the Jugoslovenska Kinoteka.</p>
<p class="ydp33b8609bMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><i>Kurutta Ichipeiji</i> has become rather common as a backdrop to
experimental musicians, often at absurd speeds, down to some 50 minutes. But I
see this is billed at 79 minutes, a full 8 minutes longer than any screening I
have seen, from a new NFAJ restoration. No doubt, Tomita Mika of NFAJ will be
telling us more before the screening.</p>
<p class="ydp33b8609bMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Roger</p>
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