Oshima's '100 Years of Japanese Cinema'

[Roger Macy]

Apologies for talking to myself, but to update my previous posting, the BFI have found the filmography for '100 Years', in their rights department.  They intend to put it up on their BID/SIFT database after checking against the print when it returns from tour, but if anyone is interested, I am free to circulate it or post it.  There's about 120 titles including 30 clips, in running order.
Thanks to Alo Jõekalda for pointing me to the discussion at the bottom of 
http://wildgrounds.com/index.php/2008/07/04/100-years-of-japanese-cinema-nagisa-oshima/
I haven't got hold of the old Connoisseur video,  but what everyone reports is that it did not credit the individual films, which is odd, as the BFI touring print does.

People have commented elsewhere on the eccentricity, and Oshimacentricity of the list, but it has its own coherency.  For example, the single film is quoted of TAMURA Takeshi who was, of course, mainly Oshima's writer. (And am I right to prefer 'Takeshi' to the 'Tsutomu' on the BFI document ?)  Personally, I'd rather see a film season built from this list than another completist retrospective of one director.

Roger

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Oshima's '100 Years of Japanese Cinema

Last night, the BFI showed Oshima's '100 Years of Japanese Cinema'.  This morning, I suggested that they could drop from their notes one particularly inaccurate article and just put a filmography of the clips used.  This they were happy to do, except that, despite being a BFI film, they cannot find any documentation.  This is all the more surprising since since most of the reviews say the films are uncredited, yet this print had all the films credited via english subtitle.  The list of clips (as opposed to stills) is not that long - I can remember a dozen and there may have been a handful more.  Does anyone know where this can be obtained ?

Roger'
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