[KineJapan] MOMA's 1970 Japanese Film Retrospective

[Dolores Martinez]

As Linda notes, Donald always had great stories. I still remember my first
dinner with him, back in 1981 I think it was, when he came to speak on
Kurosawa for the U of Chicago retrospective, he kept all of us enthralled
for hours over a long Chinese meal!
Lola

On Friday, 19 June 2020, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Thinking about Donald Richie while reading up on Film Anpan, I did some
> Googling and stumbled on this site:
>
> https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2695
>
> Moma has a small, online record of Donald Richie's 90-film retrospective.
> The press release has the film list. It's an interesting selection. I
> didn't realize it was linked to the opening of the National Museum of
> Modern Art's Film Museum. Richie also programmed a retrospective of silent
> American film to send to Japan.
>
> I once visited their archive to see what Richie left behind. Charles
> Silver was so welcoming, and searched their cabinets high and low for
> correspondence, memos and the like. Unfortunately, there wasn't much. But
> Silver had many nice things to say about Donald, having started his career
> under Richie's tenure as the film curator.
>
> Markus
>
>
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