Kinema Club VII (updated schedule)

[Aaron Gerow]

Kinema Club VII
Regimen, Revival and Recent Japanese Cinema

March 24-26, 2006, at Yale University

Special guests: Kurosawa Kiyoshi (film director) and Nakamura Hidetoshi 
(film scholar)

Sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies and the Film Studies 
Program at Yale University
With assistance from the Japan Foundation

The seventh edition of the Kinema Club conference in Japanese film and 
moving image studies will be held at Yale University from March 24 to 
26, 2006. This session will be subtitled “Regimen, Revival and Recent 
Japanese Cinema” and will focus on recent trends in Japanese cinema, 
especially as they relate to government film policy and film education. 
The main guests will be Kurosawa Kiyoshi, film director and professor 
at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and Nakamura 
Hideyuki, professor at St. Andrew’s University in Japan. We will screen 
Kurosawa’s most recent horror film LOFT, and hold several discussions 
with the director. In a pre-event for the conference we will show 
another Kurosawa film, Serpent’s Path on March 23, and hold two 
workshops with the director. As a “post-event” on March 28 the Okinawan 
director Takamine Go will be presenting his film Untamagiru.

There is no registration fee for the conference and the film screenings 
and workshops are open to the public without pre-registration. Those 
who want to attend the Saturday and Sunday panels, however, are asked 
to pre-register by e-mail to jeffrey.levick at yale.edu by March 23, 2006.

The tentative schedule is as follows (please consult the CEAS website 
for a more detailed schedule as the event gets nearer: 
http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/):

Schedule:

March 23 (Thursday): Kinema Club VII Pre-Event

	4:00-6:00: 2-hour workshop with Kurosawa Kiyoshi
		Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street

	6:00-7:00: Reception for Kurosawa Kiyoshi

	7:00-10:00: Screening: Serpent’s Path (Hebi no Michi, 1998)
		Discussion with Kurosawa Kiyoshi
		Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street

March 24 (Friday): Kinema Club VII Opening

	4:00-6:00: 2-hour workshop with Kurosawa Kiyoshi
		Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

	6:00-7:00: Opening reception for Kinema Club VII

	7:00-9:00: Keynote address by Nakamura Hideyuki
		“Ozu, or On the Gesture”
		Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

March 25 (Saturday): Kinema Club VII
	Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

	9:45-12:00: Anime
		Satomi Saito (University of Iowa): “Old and New in Digital Animation: 
Shinkai Makoto and
			Ideals of the Digital Utopia”
		Kumiko Sato (Earlham College): “Anime's Reality and the Sense of 
Horror: The Threat of
			the Unreal after Digitalization”
		Dennis Washburn (Dartmouth University): “Learning to Translate Al-Bed”
	
	1:00-3:00: Japanese Horror Cinema
		Mitsuyo Wada Marciano (Carleton University): “J-Horror and the 
Trans-National Circulation
			of Fear”
		Myoungsook Park (University of Iowa): “Semantics of Horror: 
Contemporary 'Japanese'
			Horror Films, and Hollywood Remakes”
		Discussant: Kurosawa Kiyoshi

	3:15-5:15 Roundtable on Film Policy and Film Studies
		Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto (New York University)
		Aaron Gerow (Yale University)
		Nakamura Hideyuki (St. Andrew’s University)

	7:00-10:00: Screening: Loft (2006)
		Discussion with Kurosawa Kiyoshi
		Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street

March 26 (Sunday): Kinema Club VII
	Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

	10:00-12:30: Issues of Translation
		Abé Mark Nornes (University of Michigan): Dangerous Liaisons: The 
Traders and Traitors
			in Our Midst
		Yiman Wang (UCLA): “Helix Movement and Excessive 
Repetition—Re-setting Taiyozoku
			in the 1960s Hong Kong”
		Discussant: Dudley Andrew (Yale University)

	12:30-2:00: Concluding Discussion

March 28 (Tuesday): Kinema Club VII Post-Event—Takamine Go

	7:30-10:30: Screening: Untamagiru (1989)
		Discussion with director Takamine Go.
		Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street


KINEMA CLUB VII
Directions to New Haven


Here is information on traveling to and staying in New Haven, 
Connecticut, for Kinema Club VII. For those flying in, your point of 
entry will most likely be one of three New York-area airports (JFK, 
LAGUARDIA, or NEWARK), BRADLEY airport in Hartford, Connecticut, or 
TWEED airport in New Haven. Those along the Eastern Seaboard may also 
arrive at New Haven Station via Amtrak train, or via Metro-North from 
New York. Long distance bus service is also available.

GETTING TO YALE FROM BRADLEY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT in Hartford, 
Connecticut:

Bradley is geographically the closest full-scale airport, but it still 
takes about an hour to get to New Haven from the airport. You can 
travel directly from BRADLEY via Connecticut Limo. Reservations online 
at http://www.ctlimo.com/ or by calling 1-800-472-LIMO. Connecticut 
Limo will take you to the New Haven Connecticut Limo Station, which is 
about a 5-minute taxi-ride from campus (if a taxi is not waiting there, 
you can call Metro Taxi at 203-777-7777). Some times the bus will stop 
at Phelps Gate, which is right in the middle of campus. When you arrive 
at the airport, you can use one of the free phones in the arrival lobby 
to notify Connecticut Limo of your arrival.

GETTING TO YALE FROM TWEED AIRPORT in New Haven, Connecticut:

Tweed is the closest airport to campus (only about 10 minutes by car), 
but currently only US Airways has regular service to Tweed. Taxi: $6-9, 
plus tip.

GETTING TO YALE FROM NEW YORK CITY AIRPORTS:

LaGuardia, JFK and Newark airports are also often used to travel to New 
Haven, but they are geographically further. Especially when there is 
traffic, it can sometimes take up to three hours to get to New Haven 
from JFK by limousine bus (but only two hours if there is little 
traffic and few stops). With some services, you have get go to the 
transportation information desk in the arrival lobby and get them to 
contact the shuttle or limo and confirm that you have arrived.

You can travel directly from LAGUARDIA or JFK via Prime Time Shuttle. 
Reservations online at http://www.primetimeshuttle.com/ or by calling 
1-800-377-8745. This shuttle should take you directly to your hotel if 
it is in New Haven.

You can travel directly from LAGUARDIA, JFK, or NEWARK via Connecticut 
Limo. Reservations online at http://www.ctlimo.com/ or by calling 
1-800-472-LIMO. Connecticut Limo will take you to the New Haven 
Connecticut Limo Station, which is about a 5-minute taxi-ride from 
campus (if a taxi is not waiting there, you can call Metro Taxi at 
203-777-7777). Some times the bus will stop at Phelps Gate, which is 
right in the middle of campus.

Otherwise, you can travel from New York City airports to Yale by the 
following three-step routes:

1) Airports to Grand Central Station:

 From JFK, take one of the following three routes to Grand Central 
Station:
A) Via subway (be forewarned that this option can be very 
time-consuming): $7
AirTrain from the terminal to the Howard Beach Station ($5)
Subway from Howard Beach Station to Grand Central ($2)
A train from Howard Beach to Times Square/42nd Street
		S (shuttle) train from Times Square/42nd Street to Grand Central
B) Via New York Airport Service Express Bus: $13
C) Via taxi (recommended if you can part with the cab fare): $45 fixed 
fare to Manhattan, plus tolls and tip

 From LAGUARDIA, take one of the following two routes to Grand Central 
Sta.:
A) Via New York Airport Service Express Bus: $10-12
B) Via taxi: $21-30, plus tolls and tip

 From NEWARK, take one of the following two routes to Grand Central 
Station:
A) Via AirTrain and subway: $13.15
	AirTrain to Penn Station ($11.15)
	Subway from Penn Station to Grand Central ($2)
		A/C/E train from 34th Street/Penn Station to Times Square/42nd St
		S (shuttle) train from Times Square/42nd Street to Grand Central
B) Via Olympia Airport Express: $12
C) Via taxi: $40-55, plus tolls and tip

2) Grand Central Station to New Haven Union Station:

Take the Metro-North New Haven Line to New Haven Union Station (final 
stop):
	Off-peak ticket, purchased at Grand Central: $14
	Off-peak ticket, purchased on train: $19

3) New Haven Union Station to Yale University:

Taxi: $6-9, plus tip


GETTING TO YALE FROM BOSTON, BALTIMORE, WASHINGTON DC, AND OTHER POINTS 
SERVICED BY AMTRAK:

1) Boston South Station to New Haven Union Station:

Amtrak Acela Express from Boston South Station to New Haven Station: $51
Amtrak Regional Service from Baltimore Penn Station to New Haven 
Station: $64-85
Amtrak Regional Service from Washington Union Station to New Haven 
Station: $66-88
Amtrak Vermonter Service from St. Albans, VT - Burlington, VT - 
Springfield, MA, to New Haven.

2) New Haven Union Station to Yale University:

Taxi: $6-9, plus tip

GETTING TO YALE BY BUS:

Greyhound () and Peter Pan () both have busses that stop in New Haven. 
The bus terminal is located in the Union Transit Station, which is part 
of the train station.


GETTING AROUND CAMPUS
Most of the Kinema Club events will take place at either the Whitney 
Humanities Center Auditorium or in Luce Hall. The Whitney Humanities 
Center is at 53 Wall Street, on the corner of Wall and Church Streets. 
Luce Hall (or Center) is located at 34 Hillhouse Avenue, between 
Trumbull and Sachem Streets (the two are about a 5-minute walk from 
each other). You can access a campus map at:



The WHC is on the “Central Campus, Old Campus” map, Luce on the 
“Hillhouse Avenue Area” map.


HOTELS AT YALE UNIVERSITY (cheapest to most expensive):

All of the hotels listed below are within walking distance of the main 
campus and Kinema Club events.  Many hotels offer Yale discounts, so 
you should mention that you will be attending a conference at Yale when 
making your reservation.  We have confirmed discount rates for several 
hotels as noted below.  All rates are nightly for single occupancy 
rooms:

Duncan Hotel
1151 Chapel St, New Haven
203-787-1273
$50
Cheap, no-frills accommodations.  Don’t expect a mint on your pillow.  
Features the only surviving hand-operated elevator in Connecticut.

Colony Inn
1157 Chapel St, New Haven
http://www.colonyatyale.com
203-776-1234
Offering a discounted Yale rate of $97.  Call Sedek at 203-776-1234 
(ext.7100) to reserve.  There is limited availability for the 
conference dates, so act fast.
3 star hotel, very centrally located near campus, the art gallery and 
Center for British Art, dining and nightlife.  Broadband access.

Courtyard Marriott Yale-New Haven
30 Whalley Ave, New Haven
http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/HVNDT
203-777-6221
Offering a discounted Yale rate of $109.  Mention that you will be 
attending a Yale conference when reserving.  Ask for Tanisha if you 
have any trouble.
The Marriott experience that needs no introduction.  3 stars, swimming 
pool, fitness center, free internet access.

Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale
155 Temple St, New Haven
http://www.omnihotels.com/
203-772-6664
Unconfirmed Yale rate of $125.  Regular rate is $199.
Centrally located 4 star hotel includes fitness center, rooms with a 
view, and a rooftop restaurant.

New Haven Hotel
229 George Street
http://www.newhavenhotel.com
800-644-6835
$140 ($105 if you mention Yale)
3 star hotel with swimming pool and fitness center.



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