Book on Kitano Takeshi

[Aaron Gerow]

Michael McCaskey wrote:

> Congratulations! I just ordered a copy from Amazon.com, and very much 
> hope the book will arrive before the Kitano segment of my course 
> starts Sept. 13, so I can read it and recommend it to my 78 students. 
> A number of students usually write papers about Kitano's films, and 
> this book will be very welcome indeed.

Thanks for the support, but I fear you might not get it in time. As 
some of you might know, the publishing arm of the BFI is undergoing a 
major reorganization (basically, the BFI is transferring much of the 
operations to a commercial publisher), and as part of that they are 
changing their American distributor. The book seems to be available now 
on Amazon.uk (even though Jan. 1, 2009 is given as the publication 
date!), but I wonder if Amazon in the US will really supply it starting 
Sept. 3 (the date they give). Let's cross our fingers.

Aaron