Fwd: Donald Richie's Cinema Eclectics (6/8 at SDLX)
Aaron Gerow
aaron.gerow at yale.edu
Wed Jun 7 17:05:54 EDT 2006
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Kyle Cleveland <cleveland at tuj.ac.jp>
> Date: 2006.6.7 06:02:34 US/Eastern
> To: ICJS <icjs at tuj.ac.jp>
> Subject: Donald Richie's Cinema Eclectics (6/8 at SDLX)
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> We hope you’ll join us for this event on Thursday, a rare screening
> of Japan’s first avant-garde film (from 1926), introduced by Donald
> Richie. As many of you know, Richie teaches film studies at TUJ, but
> usually only in the Spring term, and so this may be your only chance
> to see this singular presence in Asian/Japanese studies anytime soon.
> The venue is Super Deluxe in Nishi-Azabu. Doors open at 7pm; Richie
> talks from 8pm, screening thereafter, followed by a Q&A. This is
> the first film in an ongoing monthly series curated by Richie,
> produced by the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at TUJ.
> See below for more information.
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> Japanese Cinema Eclectics
> A Multi-part Series Devoted to
> Unexplored Tangents of the Japanese Film
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> Film Title: “A Page Out Of Order” (Kurutta Ippeiji) 1926 -16mm
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> Date: June 8, 2006
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> Open: 19:00 Start: 20:00
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> Venue: Super-Deluxe (SDLX) in Nishi-Azabu (www.super-deluxe.com)
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> Sponsor: Temple University, Japan Campus Institute of Contemporary
> Japanese Studies (ICJS)
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> Cost: ¥1,500 (membership fee: valid for one day/one screening)
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> JAPANESE CINEMA ECLECTICS
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> A Multi-part Series Devoted to Unexplored Tangents
> of the Japanese Film
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> Hosted by Super Deluxe (SDLX)
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> Sponsored by
> The Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies (ICJS)
> Temple University, Japan Campus
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> Curated by Donald Richie
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> June 8, 8:00 PM: A PAGE OUT OF ORDER (KURUTTA IPPEIJI) / (AKA A CRAZY
> PAGE)
> Japan's first avant-garde film, 1926, Written by Yasunari Kawabata.
> Directed
> by Teinosue Kinugasa. A welter of expressionist experiment in which
> narrative is questioned at every turn. Filmed silent with sound score
> added.
> 60 mins.
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> July 12, 8:00 PM: FOCUS (FOKASU) Directed by Satoshi Isaka, 1996. A
> recent
> but forgotten masterpiece, a documentary about an intrusive
> TV-tells-all
> program that goes wrong. With Tadanobu Asano, and a super script by
> Kazuo
> Shin. 74mins
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> August, 8:00 PM: CRAZED FRUIT (KURUTTA KAJITSU) / (AKA JUVENILE
> PASSION, AKA
> AFFAIR IN KAMAKURA) The best of the taiyozoku (sun-tribe) films,
> about just
> how bad the young can be. 1956. Directed by Ko Nakahira, written by
> Shintaro
> Ishihara, and starring his younger brother, Yujiro. It is also the
> first
> film for which Toru Takemitsu did the score. 86mins.
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> September 13, 8:00 PM: STIRRINGS FROM THE UNDERGROUND Early Postwar
> Japanese
> Experimental Films. From the archives of Image Forum. Navel and A-bomb
> (Heso
> to Genbaku), Hosoe Eiko, 1960,15mins. Love (Ai). Takahiko Iimura,
> music by
> Yoko Ono, 1962, 13 mins. Boy with Cat (Neko to Shonen) Donald Richie,
> 1963,
> 3mins. The shadow of a Doll (Hina no Kage) , Yoichi Takabayashi,
> 1966,.
> 20mins. Mist (kiri) , Sakumi Hagiwara, 1971, 8mins. Emperor Tomato
> Ketchup
> (Tomato-Kechupu kotei), Shuji Terayama, 1970, 25mins.
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> October 4, 8:00 PM: THE BENSHI, NARRATOR-COMENTATOR OF THE EARLY
> JAPANESE
> FILM Early period films accompanied by one of the few contemporary
> benshi,
> Ms. Midori Sawato. Program to be announced.
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> November 15, 8:00 PM: AN ACTOR’S REVENGE (YUKINOJO HENGEI) / (AKA THE
> REVENGE OF YUKINOJYO) 1963, Japan’s greatest camp classic. Kon
> Ichikawa’s
> post-mod remake of the 1935-36 period extravaganza of Teinosuke
> Kinugawa.
> With Kazuo Hasegawa in a double-role-male and female. And a cast
> including
> kabuki’s Ganjiro Nakamura, the lovely Ayako Wakao and Shintaro
> Katsu-Zatoichi himself. 114 mins.
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> Each program will be introduced by Donald Richie, historian of the
> Japanese
> cinema and former curator of film at the New York Museum of Modern
> Art, who
> will also take part in the post-screening Q&A.
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> Donald Richie
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> Named by TIME magazine, "the dean of Japan's art critics," and
> acknowledged
> as the foremost authority on Japanese cinema, Donald Richie has also
> written
> widely - some forty books in all - on other aspects of the country
> and its
> people. The Inland Sea has been called a classic and its film version
> has
> won prizes at international film festivals as well as the National
> Geographic Earth Award. His Public People, Private People has been
> called
> "unforgettable" by Tom Wolfe and of his two collections of essays, A
> Lateral View and Partial Views, Susan Sontag has said: "Donald Richie
> writes about Japan with an unrivaled range, acuity, and wit."
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> Richie has lived in Japan for most of his life. Arriving on New
> Year's Day,
> 1947, he worked as feature-writer and film critic for The Pacific
> Stars and
> Stripes. After graduating from Columbia University in 1953, he
> returned to
> Japan as film citic for The Japan Times. He has written for
> Newsweek, The
> Nation, Variety, The New York Times, The Guardian, Harper's, Atlantic
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> Monthly, and all major films magazines. In addition he presented the
> first
> retrospective of the Japanese film director Yasujiro Ozu at the 1962
> Berlin
> Film Festival and has since acted as guest director of the Telluride
> Film
> Festival, and served on the juries at the Hawaii, Lacarno,
> Thessaloniki, and
> Kerala Festivals.
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> In addition to writing a column for The Japan Times, lecturing around
> the
> world, and continuing to lend his distinctive voice to Japanese
> studies,
> Donald Richie teaches film at Temple University’s Japan Campus.
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> Japanese Cinema Eclectics
> A Multi-part Series Devoted to Unexplored Tangents of the Japanese Film
>
>
> Film Title: “A Page Out Of Order” (Kurutta Ippeiji) 1926 -16mm 60min-
>
> Date: June 8, 2006
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> Open: 19:00
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> Start: 20:00
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> Language: Introduction by Donald Richie in English Film Screening:
> Silent Film with Soundtrack (film to be followed by a Q&A moderated
> by Donald Richie)
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> Venue: Super-Deluxe (SDLX) in Nishi-Azabu (www.super-deluxe.com)
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> Sponsor: Temple University, Japan Campus Institute of Contemporary
> Japanese Studies (ICJS)
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> Cost: ¥1,500 (membership fee: valid for one day/one screening)
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> ACCESS
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> "Best Café for Avant Garde Idling," from TIMEASIA "Best of Asia"
> http://www.time.com/time/asia/2004/boa/boa_mind_cafe.html
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> Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies (ICJS)
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> The ICJS is an organization dedicated to fostering study and research
> on
> various topics related to contemporary Japan. The Institute hosts
> lectures,
> seminars, and symposia that provide a forum for Japanese studies
> scholars to
> present their work on issues related to contemporary Japanese social,
> cultural, and political issues. The ICJS reflects TUJ's commitment to
> offering research and study programs linking Japan and other
> countries,
> fostering greater overseas understanding of Japan, and serving an
> innovative
> role in International Education in Japan.
>
> .
> For information about the ICJS lecture series, please contact Kyle
> Cleveland, ICJS Director, Temple University, Japan Campus tel.
> 03-5441-9800,
> ext. 709 : mobile: 090-4606-9779 : e-mail: icjs at tuj.ac.jp :
> web: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/icjs
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