A Page of Madness/ Special Screening

[Dean Bowman]

I saw the film at the Mental Health film festival (in an informal double
bill with Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly) at the ICA a few years ago.
fantastic stuff, even though i missed out on the crazy Jazz drumming.
Fingers crossed for a DVD. Jasper, i'd be interested to hear more about the
reasons why Criterion didn't want to put the film out...

Dean


On 02/04/07, J.sharp <j.sharp at hpo.net> wrote:
>
> I wonder if this special screening / restoration might finally lead to a
> DVD
> release. Its always amazed me how this was never available (grey market
> aside) on video/dvd in Japan, and there was clearly good reasons why no
> one
> like Criterion had put it out, given the films reputation and historical
> importance.
> This just played in Bristol about a fortnight ago, along with a live
> accompaniment from some crazy jazz drummer and preceded by a screening of
> Serene  Velocity. I'm not sure if my wife has forgiven me for dragging her
> along to the event yet, but hell, I enjoyed it!
>
> Jasper
>
>
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> > As a special event to mark the Tokyo meeting of FIAF (Fédération
> International des Archives du Film), the National Film Center and Asahi
> Shinbun (Asahi News) are sponsoring a special screening of a newly
> restored
> A Page of Madness.  The event will take place at Asahi Yuraku-cho Hall on
> Sunday 8 April, 2007 at 19:30. (All seats reserved.) This new restoration
> is
> similar to the print currently in circulation; both derive from a print of
> the film found in Kinugasa's house in 1971, a print that is believed to be
> a
> shortened version of the 1926 original.  This new restoration, however,
> returns the film to the original aspect ratio common in the "silent" era,
> 1:1.33  The screening features piano accompaniment by Takahashi
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Dean Bowman
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