Book on Kitano Takeshi--short stories

[Anne McKnight]

And then there are always the short stories--Boy, out on Vertical as  
of August 14 (as a translation of ????. Described as "rogue  
figures" meets "lyrical sensibility." Skylight in LA had a big stack  
of them.


On 15-Sep-07, at 5:09 PM, Roger Macy wrote:

> It's definitely on the shelves.  At London, Southbank, I spotted it  
> under 'K' at the RFH bookshop and under 'T' at the BFI bookshop  
> (where members can get 20% discount).  Surely the marketing guys  
> missed a trick by not getting 'Beat' on the spine and getting a  
> third pile on the shelves?
> Incidentally, the London film festival programme is up at the BFI  
> site.
> Roger
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aaron Gerow" <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
> To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 2:52 PM
> Subject: Re: Book on Kitano Takeshi
>
> > 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
> >


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