Kurosawa Doc

Tue Mar 5 17:54:13 EST 2002

For viewers in the UK:  To the best of my knowledge, the documentary film
titled "KUROSAWA" was first broadcast in the UK in two parts on
BBC-Knowledge on Saturday, Jan. 26, and on Sat. Feb. 2.
It is also supposed to be broadcast on BBC-2 in early March.  (Yikes!
That's right now!)  I haven't heard the exact date for this BBC-2 broadcast.
Interested viewers in the UK should check with the BBC.

I believe the film was also screened in January at the NFT in London as part
of the Kurosawa Retrospective there.

For US viewers:  "KUROSAWA" is scheduled to be broadcast nationally on
"Great Performances" on Thursday March 21.  Many PBS stations will broadcast
it then -- but let me remind you to check local listings or check with your
local PBS station since many follow alternate schedules.

Peter Grilli
Japan Society of Boston

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  From: grilli at us-japan.org [mailto:grilli at us-japan.org]On Behalf Of
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  I think this was documentary shown on the digital channel, BBC Knowledge,
about a month ago.
  It was part of their mini Kurosawa season which also included a selection
of films.

  I saw most of it, and thought it very good.

  ibrahim

       "Tom Mes" <china_crisis at hotmail.com>
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        03/05/02 11:37 AM
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  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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