Lost Mishima film foretelling suicide found
Mark Nornes
amnornes
Sat Aug 20 08:31:50 EDT 2005
The article talks about a single negative. At the Viennale ATG
retrospective we learned from Kuzui-san that the the calligraphic
intertitles for the English version were painted by Mishima himself.
One striking aspect of these intertitles are the occasional
misspellings, which Mishima simply smudged out with a finger. The
imperfection left an auratic mark on the textual interruptions,
amplifying the powerful experience of watching the real author/director
rehearsing reality.
In any case, I wonder what became of the English negative?
Markus
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