Donald Richie in Berkeley, April 21

[Stone Bridge Press]

Donald is coming to the US in April and we've just arranged a fun 
event via Berkeley Arts & Letters (formerly the Cody's Books events series):

Tuesday, April 21

A Life in Japanese Film:

DONALD RICHIE in conversation with TOM LUDDY

  "During the last fifty years, Donald Richie has been our greatest 
guide to the East. An outsider turned insider -- a beautiful and 
subtle writer with an eye for the wild life as well as an ear for the 
silences of Japan." --Michael Ondaatje

Praised by critics from Susan Sontag to Tom Wolfe, Donald Richie was 
born in Ohio in 1924 and has lived in Japan since 1947, except for 
time at Columbia University in the early 1950s and as curator of film 
at New York's Museum of Modern Art, 1968?73. The author of some 
thirty books and dozens of essays, Richie is especially well known 
for his instrumental role in introducing Japanese film to the West 
and for his travel memoir The Inland Sea, which was adapted into a 
popular PBS documentary. In addition to The Inland Sea, his books 
published by Berkeley-based Stone Bridge Press include Travels in the 
East, A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics, The Donald Richie Reader, 
and The Japan Journals. He recently wrote the forewords to A Critical 
Handbook of Japanese Film Directors by Alexander Jacoby, and Waiting 
on the Weather: Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa by Teruyo Nogami.

Richie is also an experimental filmmaker. In 1988, he was invited to 
be the first guest director at the Telluride Film Festival. At this 
special evening of recollection and conversation, Richie will discuss 
Japan and his insights into Japanese culture and especially Japanese 
film with Tom Luddy, co-founder and current co-director of the 
Telluride Film Festival and an executive and film producer with 
American Zoetrope.

7:30 PM at First Congregational Church of Berkeley/$10 ($5 students) 
at the door; co-sponsored by The Booksmith

http://www.berkeleyarts.org/




Hope to see some KineJapaners there!
Ari

Ari Messer
Stone Bridge Press
510.524.8732
www.stonebridge.com  
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