Fwd: Japanese Film Director Koreeda Hirokazu at Yale University February25-26, 2011

[Aaron Gerow]

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> Please Mark your Calendar!
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> JAPANESE FILM DIRECTOR KOREEDA HIROKAZU AT YALE UNIVERSITY
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> The Japanese filmmaker Koreeda Hirokazu, whose films such as  
> Maborosi and Nobody Knows have captured major awards at Cannes,  
> Berlin, and other festivals, is visiting Yale to present his works.  
> Active in both fiction film and documentary, in directing and  
> producing, Koreeda will also hold two workshops.
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> FILM SCREENINGS
> Withney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street
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> Friday, February 25, 2011, 7:00 PM
> Without Memory (1996, 84 min., video)
> In Japanese with English subtitles
> A penetrating film about a man who came to suffer from severe memory  
> loss (Wernicke's Encephalopathy) due to medical malpractice. A  
> recording medium confronts the condition of inability to remember.
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> Saturday, February 26, 2011, 7:00 PM
> Still Walking (2008, 114 min., 35mm)
> In Japanese with English subtitles
> Grown children visit their elderly parents in the countryside to  
> commemorate the tragic passing of an elder son. Mixing humor and  
> subtle drama, this fictional work exemplifies Koreeda$B!G(Bs  
> delicate depiction of the tenuousness of familial bonds in the face  
> of death.
> Both screenings will conclude with a Q & A with the filmmaker
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> WORKSHOPS
> Two workshops will be held on Friday at 12 noon and Saturday at 12  
> noon. The first will primarily be directed at undergraduates and  
> conducted with an interpreter; the second is directed at graduate  
> students and will be held in Japanese. Registration is required  
> please email anne.letterman at yale.edu by Tuesday February 22, 2011
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> Sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies, the Whitney  
> Humanities Center, the Film Studies Center, the Film Studies  
> Program, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
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> For more information  http://eastasianstudies.research.yale.edu
> http://calendar.yale.edu/cal/eastasianstudies/week/20110225/All/
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