United Red Army

[ryan.cook at yale.edu]

Thanks for the tip, Jonathan.  And thanks also to everyone else who's 
responded.
I've learned that Dissidenz is releasing a French-subtitled DVD of United Red
Army in a matter of days, and is planning to make an English-subbed version
available for on-demand streaming some time next month.  They say they're
hoping another distributor takes an interest in releasing an 
English-subbed DVD
for the Anglophone market.

I've got CineFamily on my radar screen now.  Thanks!

Ryan



Quoting "Jonathan M. Hall" <jmhall at pomona.edu>:

> Dear Ryan,
>
> You might think of contacting the organizers of CineFamily in Los 
> Angeles.  They screened URA about a week ago, actually the very day 
> you sent your query to KineJapan. They screened a film print, but 
> they should certainly know about a DVD, even a screener.
> I've included their announcement and contact info below. I hope this helps.
>
> By the way, CineFamily is a wonderful place for all lovers of 
> celluloid and very Japan-film-friendly.
> Next time you visit LA, please check it out.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Jonathan
>
>
> SPECIAL WEDNESDAY SCREENING -
> KOJI WAKAMATSU: SEXFILM REVOLUTION
> UNITED RED ARMY
> WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2009 | 8:00PM
>
> "Consensus is boring." -- Koji Wakamatsu
>
> For 35 years, director Koji Wakamatsu has been mulling over what 
> happened to the idealism and moral imperative of the far left 
> Japanese student movement that left a rash of dead bodies and 
> unanswered questions, and his latest film is as close to his heart as 
> Schindler's List was for Spielberg. In the unflinchingly violent 
> United Red Army, Wakamatsu dramatizes the self-immolation of the 
> fiercest of Japan's underground paramilitary groups, who, in the 
> early '70s, after internal strife led to the murders of fourteen of 
> its own twenty-nine members, fled to a remote mountain location and 
> instigated a police standoff which lives in infamy to this day. No 
> stranger to radical politics, Wakamatsu not only drew from interviews 
> with surviving URA members, but also from his own street-level 
> experiences with the URA and other subversive organizations at the 
> time -- affiliations which landed him on the U.S. State Department's 
> no-visa blacklist, where he remains to this day. Backed by a searing 
> psych rock score by former Sonic Youth member Jim O'Rourke, United 
> Red Army is a film that doesn't pretend to have the answers, but is 
> instead an epic dissection of ideology can trump reason.
> Dir. Koji Wakamatsu, 2008, 35mm, 190 min.
>
> Tickets - $12 (admission to this Special Event is free for members)
>
> WATCH THE TRAILER FOR "UNITED RED ARMY"
>
> Bret Berg
> The Cinefamily
> 611 N. Fairfax Ave.
> Los Angeles, CA 90036
> (323) 655-2510
> bret at cinefamily.org
>
>
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