Great Society Screening next week!

[drainer@mpinet.net]

"Great Society" is indeed worthwhile... I haven't seen the whole thing but I
was fortunate enough to catch about 15 minutes of it and I thought it was
quite interesting.

I will be in Tokyo next Wednesday so I will try to catch the screening... I
recommend anyone in the area who has not seen it to try to catch it as well.

Now I just need to work out my schedule so that I don't arrive after it
starts, which may just happen.....

-d



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Nornes" <amnornes at umich.edu>
To: "KineJapan" <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 3:24 AM
Subject: Great Society Screening next week!


> Next week is a poorly publicized Yamagata Doc Film Fest "play event"
> meant to foreshadow the usual "Yamagata in Tokyo" screenings in the
> fall. Next week they'll be showing Hertz Frank's 10 Minutes Older and
> Xiao Chin's Issho no toki. (those are transliterations from katakana
> there.) And I'm giving a little talk about the "musicality of
> Newsreel."

> But the real show is Oe Masanori's GREAT SOCIETY.  This is a 1967 film
> by Oe, who was among the founders of the New York Newsreel collective.
> This film attempts to capture "1967" on six screens. Just watching them
> cue 6 projectors simultaneously is something of a show. The film/event
> was one of the highlights of Yamagata last year. Perhaps someone that
> went to one of the screenings could describe it?  Oe will be there to
> talk after the film.
>
> athenee francaise
> wednesday, July 21 from 6:30 pm.
> http://www.athenee.net/culturalcenter/schedule/2004_07/yamaPREEVENT.html
>
> See you there.
>
> Markus