KINEJAPAN digest 2266
Nancy Stalker
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Thu Jan 10 03:15:24 EST 2008
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On Nov 26, 2007, at 11:07 PM, KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu wrote:
>
> KINEJAPAN Digest 2266
>
> Topics covered in this issue include:
>
> 1) New Book
> by Sybil Thornton <camford1989 at yahoo.com>
> 2) Yamagata's catalog
> by nuzumaki at gmx.net
> 3) nishing Points: The Films of Shohei Imamura at the Harvard
> Film Archive
> by Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
> 4) Re: nishing Points: The Films of Shohei Imamura at the Harvard
> Film Archive
> by tetsuwan at comcast.net
> 5) Re: New Book
> by crowells at klis.com
>
> From: Sybil Thornton <camford1989 at yahoo.com>
> Date: November 26, 2007 1:56:58 AM CST
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: New Book
>
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> From: nuzumaki at gmx.net
> Date: November 26, 2007 6:50:03 AM CST
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Yamagata's catalog
>
>
> I was wondering if anybody on the list has an electronic version of
> the YIDFF-catalogs and would be willing to share it. The YIDFF
> website says:
>
> As time permits, we plan to eventually make available on the
> Internet all of the past catalogs published by the YIDFF
>
> ... but actually i doubt that this will happen anytime soon.
>
> best regards,
>
> Stefan
>
> --
> Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger geh?rt?
> Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger
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>
>
> From: Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
> Date: November 26, 2007 4:15:47 PM CST
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: nishing Points: The Films of Shohei Imamura at the Harvard
> Film Archive
>
>
> Vanishing Points: The Films of Shohei Imamura at the Harvard Film
> Archive
> December 1 - December 14, 2007
>
> ?I am interested in the relationship of the lower part of the human
> body and the lower part of the social structure on which the
> reality of daily Japanese life supports itself.? ? Shohei Imamura
>
> Shohei Imamura is widely recognized today as one of the most
> important directors to emerge from the Japanese New Wave of the
> 1960s, together with Oshima, Suzuki, and Shinoda. While Imamura?s
> work quickly gained recognition on the international festival
> circuit, box office success overseas proved elusive, with Western
> audiences seeming to prefer the exquisite melodrama of Ozu and
> Mizoguchi, the action of Kurosawa or, eventually, the modernist art
> films of Oshima.
>
> Imamura?s work is typically ribald, bawdy, and earthy, revealing
> and reveling in the underpinnings of Japanese society: not the code
> of the samurai or the rigor of the tea ceremony, but something more
> primal and fecund. Imamura discovers this primal element in the
> coarser side of life ? not the working class so much as the sub-
> proletariat (similarly beloved by Pasolini) made up of criminals,
> pimps, and pornographers ? and especially in his indomitable, and
> decidedly unelegant, heroines. This search for the primal gives
> Imamura?s films both an anthropological aspect and an implicit
> critique of modernity and consumer capitalism. While Imamura?s
> 1960s films are now acknowldged as bracingly idiosyncratic
> masterpieces, many of them bewildered critics and alienated
> audiences at the time, rendering Imamura?s career especially
> vulnerable to the recession that struck the Japanese film industry
> in the 1970s. No longer able to make features, he founded a film
> school and made television documentaries before his triumphant
> comeback to the big screen with Vengeance Is Mine. In the last
> decades of his life, Imamura made films irregularly, but each film
> was regarded as an event.
>
> This retrospective, which includes almost all of Imamura?s
> theatrical features, was organized by Adam Sekuler, Northwest Film
> Forum, and Tom Vick, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian
> Institution. Special thanks to Mari Hiruta, The Japan Foundation
> (Tokyo); Yoshihiro Nihei, The Japan Foundation (Los Angeles);
> Imamura Productions; and Brian Belovarac, Janus Films. Selected
> text adapted from program notes by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
>
> Vengeance Is Mine (Fukushu suru wa ware ni are)
> Saturday December 1 at 7pm
>
> A Man Vanishes (Ningen johatsu)
> Saturday December 1 at 9:30pm
>
> The Profound Desire of the Gods (Kamigami no fukaki yokubo)
> Sunday December 2 at 3pm
>
> Why Not? (Eijanaika)
> Sunday December 2 at 7:30pm
>
> The Pornographers (Jinruigaku nyumon)
> Monday December 3 at 7pm
>
> Karayuki-San, The Making of a Prostitute (Karayuki-san)
> Monday December 3 at 9:30pm
>
> The Ballad of Narayama (Narayama-bushi ko)
> Friday December 7 at 7pm
>
> Zegen
> Friday December 7 at 9:30pm
>
> Pigs and Battleships (Buta to gunkan)
> Saturday December 8 at 7pm
>
> The Insect Woman (Nippon konchuki)
> Saturday December 8 at 9:15pm
>
> Lights of Night (Nishi Ginza eki-mae) and My Second Brother (Nianchan)
> Sunday December 9 at 3pm
>
> Stolen Desire (Nusumareta yokujo)
> Sunday December 9 at 7pm
>
> Endless Desire (Hateshi naki yokubo)
> Sunday December 9 at 9pm
>
> Black Rain (Kuroi ame)
> Monday December 10 at 7pm
>
> The Eel (Unagi)
> Monday December 10 at 9:15pm
>
> Intentions of Murder (Akai satsui)
> Friday December 14 at 7pm
>
> A History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (Nippon sengo-
> shi: Madamu Omboro no seikatsu)
> Friday December 14 at 9:45pm
>
> The Harvard Film Archive is located in the Carpenter Center for the
> Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
> For a complete listing of films, please visit: http://
> hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2007novedec/imamura.html
> Admission is $8 General, $6 Students and Seniors
> http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa or 617-795-4700 for information
>
>
> From: tetsuwan at comcast.net
> Date: November 26, 2007 4:49:22 PM CST
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu, KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-
> state.edu
> Cc: Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
> Subject: Re: nishing Points: The Films of Shohei Imamura at the
> Harvard Film Archive
>
>
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> From: crowells at klis.com
> Date: November 26, 2007 9:13:14 AM CST
> To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Subject: Re: New Book
>
>
> I got it and am enjoying it.
>
>
>
>
> Sybil Thornton <camford1989 at yahoo.com> wrote :
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>> Hi, folks, A self-promoting book announcement, if I may:
>> S.A. Thornton, _The Japanese Period Film: A Critical
>> Analysis_. Check Amazon.com . And, yes, I'm
>> the one whose last book was a socio-historical analysis of the
>> Buddhist community once known as the Yugyoh-ha. Buy lots,
>> please: I get royalties this time! Cheers, Sybil
>> Thornton 
>> Get easy, one-click access to your favorites.
>> Make Yahoo! your homepage.
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