A Page of Madness/ Special Screening

[Mark Nornes]

I should mention that our Center for Japanese Studies Press will be  
publishing Aaron Gerow's book-length analysis and historiography of  
Page of Madness. He is currently finishing up the ms, so I suppose it  
will be out in the next year or so. It's very, very good.

Markus





On Apr 2, 2007, at 8:45 AM, Dean Bowman wrote:

> 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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> Subject: A Page of Madness/ Special Screening
> Date: 01/04/07 14:48
>
> > As a special event to mark the Tokyo meeting of FIAF (F?d?ration
> 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
> Yuuji.-----Jonathan M. HallJapanese Film, Media, and Modern
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