[Kinema Club] [KineJapan] "The Aesthetics of Shadow" Retrospective @ Berlin International Film Festival

Tue Jan 7 09:09:53 EST 2014

Acccommodation?
Eija

2014/1/7 Zahlten, Alexander <azahlten at fas.harvard.edu>

>   Hi Eija,
>
>  Sorry for the late reply, you caught me between flights. Happy new year
> of the horse!
>
>  We’re planning a very informal screening for Thursday evening, around
> 6:30, but we still have to decide… The finalized schedule will go out in
> two days (nothing has basically changed).
>
>  Let me know if you have any other questions!
>
>  Best,
> Alex
>
>
>
>   From: Eija Niskanen <eija at helsinkicineaasia.fi>
> Reply-To: Mailing list for managing Kinema Club <
> kinemaclub at mailman.yale.edu>
> Date: Monday, January 6, 2014 at 6:17 AM
>
> To: Roger Macy <macyroger at yahoo.co.uk>, Mailing list for managing Kinema
> Club <kinemaclub at mailman.yale.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Kinema Club] [KineJapan] "The Aesthetics of Shadow"
> Retrospective @ Berlin International Film Festival
>
>   Around what time are the screenings and your introductions?
> Eija
>
>
> 2013/11/10 Roger Macy <macyroger at yahoo.co.uk>
>
>>  New York in January?  That's also interesting.
>> Given what they seem to have in the pipeline, already, I would take it
>> that screenings are more likely to be after Kineclub on January 17-8,
>> rather than before ?   I'm just thinking about my plane tickets, as must
>> others, if you have any further guidance, Daisuke.
>> best,
>> Roger
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Daisuke Miyao" <dmiyao at uoregon.edu>
>>   To: "Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum" <
>> kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>
>> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 6:11 PM
>> Subject: Re: [KineJapan] "The Aesthetics of Shadow" Retrospective @
>> Berlin International Film Festival
>>
>>  > Dear all,
>> >
>> > Thank you very much for your interests in the retrospective.  Answering
>> > Alex's question, here is the tentative list of films (not only
>> > Japanese).  In addition to Berlin International Film Festival, I am
>> > collaborating with MoMA of New York, and they will have its own "The
>> > Aesthetics of Shadow" series in January.  More information to come....
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Daisuke
>> >
>> > A) LIGHTING STYLES FOR GENRES:
>> > 1) Street films: “City as protagonist”
>> > JUJIRO (Crossways/Im Schatten des Yoshiwara), Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1928
>> > (silent, engl. subt.)
>> > SONO YO NO TSUMA (That Night’s Wife), Yasujiro Ozu, 1930 (silent, engl.
>> > subt.)
>> > NINJO KAMIFUSEN (Humanity and Paper Balloon), Yamanaka Sadao, 1937
>> > (engl. subt.)
>> > SUNRISE, F.W. Murnau, 1927 (silent)
>> > QUAI DES BRUMES, Marcel Carné, F 1938 (Eugen Schüfftan)
>> > UNTER DER LATERNE, Gerhard Lamprecht, G 1926 (silent, digital
>> > restoration, Deutsche Kinemathek)
>> > DIRNENTRAGÖDIE, Bruno Rahn, 1927 (Guido Seeber) or
>> > MINATO NO NIHON MUSUME (Japanese Girls at the Harbor), Hiroshi Shimizu,
>> > 1933
>> >
>> > 2) jidaigeki: “Flash of the sword”
>> > YUKINOJO HENGE (An Actor’s Revenge), Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1935/1952
>> > (engl. subt.)
>> > THE MARK OF ZORRO, Fred Niblo, 1920 (silent)
>> > RASHOMON, Akira Kurosawa, 1950
>> > THE IRON MASK, Allan Dwan, 1929 (silent)or
>> > SCARAMOUCHE, Rex Ingram, 1924 (silent)
>> >
>> > 3) “War films”
>> > GONIN NO SEKKOHEI (Five Scouts), Tomotaka Tasaka, 1938 (live subt.
>> > engl.)
>> > HAWAI MARE OKI KAISEN (The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya), Kajiro
>> > Yamamoto, 1944 (live subt. engl.)
>> > DAWN PATROL, Howard Hawks, 1930
>> > AIR FORCE, Howard Hawks, 1943
>> >
>> > B) LIGHTING STYLES FOR STARS:
>> > Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Kazuo Hasegawa/Hayashi Chojiro, Sessue
>> > Hayakawa etc.
>> > 4) Lighting styles for stars
>> > TSURUHACHI TSURUJIRO (Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro), Mikio Naruse, 1938
>> > (engl. subt.)
>> > THE TYPHOON, Reginald Barker, (withHenry Kotani), 1914 (silent)
>> > THE CHEAT, Cecil B. DeMille, 1915 (silent)
>> > SHANGHAI EXPRESS, Josef von Sternberg, 1932 (Lee Garmes) and/or
>> > FLESH AND THE DEVIL, Clarence Brown, 1926 (William Daniels) and/or
>> >
>> > C) THEMES:
>> > 5) Light and Rhythm
>> > KURUTTA IPPEJI (A Page of Madness), Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926 (silent,
>> > engl. subt.)
>> > OSHIDORI UTAGASSEN (Singing Lovebirds), Makino Masahiro, 1939 (engl.
>> > subt.)
>> > BERLIN. DIE SINFONIE DER GROßSTADT (Berlin. Symphony of a Great City),
>> > Walther Ruttmann, 1927
>> > 1 Short film program:
>> > OPUS I-IV, Walther Ruttmann, 1921-25
>> > Lichtspiel Schwarz Weiss Grau, László Moholy-Nagy, 1930
>> > Grossstadtzigeuner, László Moholy-Nagy, 1932
>> >
>> > 6) Painting with shadows
>> > UGETSU (Tales of the Rain and Moon), Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953 (engl.
>> > subt.)
>> > FAUST, F.W. Murnau, 1926 (silent)
>> > LA BELLE ET LA BETE, Jean Cocteau, F 1945 (Henri Alekan)
>> > STAGECOACH, John Ford, 1939 (Bert Glennon)
>> > and possibly FÄHRMANN MARIA, Frank Wysbar, G 1936
>> >
>> > 7) Towards Realism (6 films)
>> > DOCKS OF NEW YORK, Josef von Sternberg, 1926 (engl. subt.)
>> > NASAKE NO HIKARI (Light of Compassion), Henri Kotani, 1926 (silent,
>> > engl. live subt.)
>> > TOKYO NO EIYU (A Hero of Tokyo), Hiroshi Shimizu, 1935 (engl. subt.)
>> > THE GRAPES OF WRATH, John Ford, 1940
>> > CITIZEN KANE, Orson Welles, 1941
>> > NAKED CITY Jules Dassin, 1948 (restoration LoC) or
>> > BERLIN EXPRESS, Jacques Tourneur, 1948 (restoration LoC)
>> >
>> > Additional title:
>> > Benjamin Christensen: HÆVNENS NAT or HEMMELIGHEDSFULDE X (or less known
>> > title → Thomas Christensen) (silent)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 2013/11/08 06:52, Alex Zahlten wrote:
>> >> This looks amazing, Daisuke. In the press release no specific films
>> >> seem to be mentioned- are you allowed to give us an idea of which
>> >> Japanese films will be playing there?
>> >>
>> >> Best
>> >>
>> >> Alex
>> >>
>> >> GESENDET: Donnerstag, 07. November 2013 um 22:50 Uhr
>> >>  VON: "Daisuke Miyao" <dmiyao at uoregon.edu>
>> >>  AN: "Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum"
>> >> <kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>
>> >>  BETREFF: [KineJapan] "The Aesthetics of Shadow" Retrospective @
>> >> Berlin International Film Festival
>> >> Dear All,
>> >>
>> >>  I would like to let you know that my book, The Aesthetics of Shadow:
>> >>  Lighting and Japanese Cinema (Duke University Press, 2013), is
>> >> invited
>> >>  to the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. There will be a
>> >>  retrospective based on the book and beyond. Here is the link to the
>> >>  festival website.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/alle/Alle-Detail_19796.html
>> >> [1]
>> >>
>> >>  I am going to introduce some films. If you are in Berlin in February,
>> >>  see you there!
>> >>
>> >>  Best,
>> >>  Daisuke
>> >>
>> >>  Daisuke Miyao
>> >>  Associate Professor of Japanese Film and Cinema Studies
>> >>  University of Oregon
>> >>
>>
>> >
>>
>>
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