Kurosawa Doc

[Tom Mes]

Since the BBC is mentioned as one of the co-producers, any word on when it 
will be shown in the UK?

Tom


>From: Mark Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu>
>Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>To: kineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>Subject: Kurosawa Doc
>Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:47:07 -0500
>
>From Peter Grilli:
>
>
>I'd like to announce, particularly to Kine-Japan list members resident in
>the U.S., the national broadcast on PBS' "Great Performances" of a new
>documentary on Kurosawa, on which I served as one of the co-producers.
>This
>is a major TV documentary, nearly two hours in length, and is a
>co-production of the BBC, PBS (via the NY station, WNET), and NHK.  It
>was
>directed by Adam Low, well known on the BBC for his earlier
>documentaries on
>Noel Coward, Krzysztof Kieslowki, and various subjects relating to South
>Africa.  It features interviews with Kurosawa, Ichikawa Kon and many
>Japanese actors and collaborators of  Kurosawa's, Donald Richie, Stephen
>Prince, Shuichi Kato, Tadao Sato, Clint Eastwood, James Coburn, among
>others.  (I did nearly all the Japanese interviews.)  Extracts from
>Kurosawa's "Something Like an Autobiography" are read by Paul Scofield,
>and
>other narration is by Sam Shephard.
>
>The national broadcast over Great Performances will be on March 21, but
>since every public-TV station broadcasts Great Performances on different
>days and at different schedules, interested viewers should check local
>listings for details.
>There is also a "Kurosawa" page on the Great Performances website at
>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/kurosawa/kurosawa.html
>
>To help publicize this telecast, TERUYO NOGAMI -- Kurosawa's "right hand"
>and production assistant for nearly fifty years -- has been invited to
>the
>U.S. for several special screenings.  Nogami is an extraordinary woman,
>deeply knowledgeable not only about Kurosawa and his films (she worked on
>all of them from Rashomon on) but about virtually everything in Japanese
>cinema history.  She's also a very close friend, and it's been an honor
>to
>work closely with her on this and other projects.
>
>For Kine-Japaners in the New England area, Nogami-san and I will be
>presenting the new documentary and discussing it at the following
>screenings:
>
>Thursday, March 14	7:00pm  HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE (24 Quincy St.,
>Cambridge,
>MA) (Tel: 617-496-2222)
>				For information:
>http://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendars/02marapr/close.htm#kurosawa
>
>Saturday, March 16	2:45pm  BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS  (465 Huntington
>Ave.,
>Boston)  (Tel: 617-369-3770)
>				For schedule and information:  http://www.mfa.org
>
>Sunday, March 17	3:00pm  THE MUSIC HALL THEATER (Portsmouth, New
>Hampshire)
>(Tel: 603-224-4071)
>				Sponsored by New Hampshire Humanities Council:
>http://www.nhhc.org/winhr/spevent.htm#kurosawa
>


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