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

Sun Jan 5 16:17:38 EST 2014

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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