[KineJapan] MOMA's 1970 Japanese Film Retrospective

[Alexander Jacoby]

Thanks - what a wonderful voyage of discovery that must have been, fifty
years ago. And I wonder if there's been another chance to see Yasuki
Chiba's Oban outside Japan since! (Donald wrote enthusiastically about that
film specifically and about Chiba in general in the small 1961 book,
Japanese Movies, which few people seem to have).

ALEX





On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 18:59, Dolores Martinez via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> 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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