New York Film Festival; Ozu retrospective

[Mark Nornes]

On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 11:12  AM, Bill Thompson wrote:
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> Thanks for all the additional information following
> my Ozu posting.  Does Markus or anyone else have more
> information on the Ozu book that can be shared?
>


The book is Yoshida Kiju's award winning book Ozu Yasujiro no Han-Eiga. 
The English title will be Ozu's Anti-Cinema. The translators are 
Daisuke Miyao (an NYU graduate that is currently at Columbia on a 
postdoc) and Kyoko Hirano of the Japan Society.  The press is the 
Center for Japanese Studies at Michigan, and we expect the book to be 
out by early November, earlier if possible in order to arrive in time 
for New York Film Festival's symposium.

This is a fascinating book. Yoshida was, of course, one of the key New 
Wave directors that was critical of Ozu back in the 1960s. This book 
constitutes his reevaluation of the older director. It is deeply 
personal, and written in a provocative, essayistic style. Yoshida has 
really looked at these films carefully, and there is a lot to learn 
from him.

I might also  add that this is the first film book published by 
Michigan. Everybody buy it, because if sales are attractive you can 
expect to see more books on Japanese film coming from here. In fact, 
there is one more great book nearing its final stages: Shadows on the 
Screen: Stories and Essays by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro on Cinema and 
"Oriental" Aesthetics, translated and with introduction and 
commentaries by Thomas LaMarre.

Keep your collective eyes out!

Markus
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