Kurosawa Doc

[Jasper Sharp]

I may be wrong, but I believe it was shown either at the last London Film 
Festival or at the recent Kurosawa retrospective at the NFT in Jan/Feb.

Jasper Sharp

>From: "Tom Mes" <china_crisis at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>Subject: Re: Kurosawa Doc
>Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 11:37:05
>
>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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