Donald Richie diaries / interview

[mark schilling]

Donald was his usual urbane, articulate self at Temple tonight -- and got a
long, heartfelt round of applause from the full house. A question about
suicide brought forth a long story about his relationship with Mishima that
was as polished and revealing of both men as one of his better journal
entries. I hope someone makes a transcript.

Which reminds me -- I'm doing a round-table next Friday with Donald and
James Quandt of Cinematheque Ontario for a page on this year's FILMeX in the
Japan Times. Should be fun.

Mark Schilling
schill at gol.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Nornes" <amnornes at umich.edu>
To: "KineJapan" <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 2:50 AM
Subject: Donald Richie diaries / interview


> The latest Japan Foundation newsletter has an interview with Richie:
>
> http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/publish/jfn/
>
> Richie is releasing his diaries this month, at least a portion of them.
>  From the way he described it to me, it's the sexy portions (in all its
> various meanings). "I passed sections to everyone who appears in the
> book, so I should be OK."
>
> Did anyone end up going to his talk at Temple?
>
> Markus
>