The Vagaries of Film Viewing (Started re: Potemkin)

[Steve Cavrak]

On Jan 17, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Dolores Martinez wrote:

> You need to think of Kurosawa's age in the 1920s (just in his teens!), but also about his older brother who was a radical and a benshi.  


Wikipedia provides an interesting gloss ...

Heigo was academically gifted, but soon after failing to secure a place in Tokyo's foremost high school, he began to detach himself from the rest of the family, preferring to concentrate on his interest in foreign literature.[5] In the late 1920s, Heigo became a benshi (silent film narrator) for Tokyo theaters showing foreign films, and quickly made a name for himself. Akira, who at this point planned to become a painter,[11] moved in with him, and the two brothers became inseparable.[12] Through Heigo, Akira devoured not only films but also theater and circus performances,[13] while exhibiting his paintings and working for the left-wing Proletarian Artists' League


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