[KineJapan] Film fests of yore in Yurakucho/Hibiya

[Markus Nornes]

I don't know the answer to your question, but for what it's worth USC was
getting Pia back then. Some Pia editor was at USC for a visit and then
started sending it to them gratis. I remember a librarian there asking me
if it had any value at all!

Markus


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*Markus Nornes*
*Professor of Asian Cinema*
Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and
Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design

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On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 6:46 PM Jonathan M. Hall via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Hi Anne,
>
> I think TIFF was only six years old in 1991, and Kurosawa definitely
> presented at it in person that year. But was the Chanter the actual venue?
> I seem to remember it was one of them.
>
> http://history.tiff-jp.net/en/overviews?no=4
>
> If only these weren’t pandemic times, this might help:
>
> https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-ea/ldpd_7755896/dsc/16
>
> I do remember a festival, but which one.
>
> By the way, one more local resource: UC Irvine has an excellent collection
> of film journals of the period, which I helped the library acquire through
> a NEAC grant. That would be the easiest place. And those periodicals are
> loanable. So a colleague there might request curbside loan for you if
> inter-library loan doesn’t work.
>
> With best wishes,
> Jonathan
>
>
> On Sunday, September 20, 2020, Anne McKnight via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi all~
>>
>> I’m wondering if anyone who has pounded the pavements and darkened the
>> doors of the theatres in the Yurakucho area might know of any film fests
>> particularly associated with the Hibiya Chanter (日比谷シャンテ) theatre?
>> I ask because Kurosawa Akira was in about 1991 miffed that one of his
>> films (The Bad Sleep Well) was not included at the retrospective of his
>> films that screened there; he hints that it is too déclassé for the time
>> and place. The whole Kurosawa feature was probably a part of a larger
>> festival, as he does refer to a フェスティバル.
>> If I had access to *PIA* I would go back and look at the listings, but I
>> don’t, so if anyone has a memory of being there or reading about festivals
>> that took place in Hibiya, or strolling by the marquees even, I would very
>> much enjoy hearing about these events.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Anne
>>
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