A Page of Madness/ Special Screening

[J.sharp]

I never said Criterion, I said LIKE Criterion. Actually it was someone else
who said the rightsholders were being a bit difficult. Even though one
assumes that a film of this age should be public domain, it never seems to
be that simple in the case of silent films - and in fact the music that was
struck up for the 1970s re-release would still be under copyright. We'll
have to wait and see what happens.
jasper



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From: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: A Page of Madness/ Special Screening
Date: 02/04/07 04:30

> I saw the film at the Mental Health film festival (in an informal double
bill with Bergman&#39;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&#39;d be interested to hear more about
the reasons why Criterion didn&#39;t want to put the film out...
>
> &nbsp;
> Dean&nbsp;
> On 02/04/07, J.sharp &lt;j.sharp at hpo.net&gt; wrote:
> I wonder if this special screening / restoration might finally lead to a
DVDrelease. 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
onelike Criterion had put it out, given the films reputation and
historicalimportance.This just played in Bristol about a fortnight ago,
along with a live
> accompaniment from some crazy jazz drummer and preceded by a screening
ofSerene&nbsp;&nbsp;Velocity. I&#39;m not sure if my wife has forgiven me
for dragging heralong to the event yet, but hell, I enjoyed it!Jasper
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Special Screening
> Date: 01/04/07 14:48&gt; As a special event to mark the Tokyo meeting of
FIAF (F?d?rationInternational des Archives du Film), the National Film
Center and AsahiShinbun (Asahi News) are sponsoring a special screening of a
newly restored
> A Page of Madness.&nbsp;&nbsp;The event will take place at Asahi
Yuraku-cho Hall onSunday 8 April, 2007 at 19:30. (All seats reserved.) This
new restoration issimilar to the print currently in circulation; both derive
from a print of
> the film found in Kinugasa&#39;s house in 1971, a print that is believed
to be ashortened version of the 1926 original.&nbsp;&nbsp;This new
restoration, however,returns the film to the original aspect ratio common in
the &quot;silent&quot; era,
> 1:1.33&nbsp;&nbsp;The screening features piano accompaniment by
TakahashiYuuji.-----Jonathan M. HallJapanese Film, Media, and
ModernLiteratureAssistant Professor, Comparative Literature / Film &amp;amp;
MediaStudies320 Humanities Instructional BuildingUC Irvine, Irvine CA
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