hey guys, if anyone of you live in NY, there is a japanese event.
SUNDAY, April 18:
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa Retrospective
SEVEN SAMURAI Special Event with Newsday Film Critic John Anderson
9 am Hot Bagel Breakfast, 10am New print of 7 Samurai, Discussion to follow
$10.50/ Members,$13.50/Public (call for reservations 631-423-7611 or
www.cinemaartscentre.org)
(regular shows Public $8.50)
Cinema Arts Centre's 6-film celebration of legendary Japanese director Akira
Kurosawa featuring many of his greatest works with a focus on his
collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune continues through May 5. Highlights
include a new print of "Seven Samurai" on Sunday, April 18: there will be a
bagel breakfast at 9 am, the film at 10 am, followed by discussion with
Newsday critic John Anderson. Village Voice critic Michael Atkinson will
present the thriller "High and Low" on Wednesday, April 21 at 8pm.
Kurosawa'a last film "Madadayo" will follow a 10am breakfast on Sunday, May
2
Yojimbo * April 14
Seven Samurai * April 18-19
April 18: Seven Samurai Sunday Schmooze
Film, Discussion, and Hot Bagel Breakfast
Breakfast at 9am, Film at 10am, Discussion to follow
Guest Speaker: John Anderson, Newsday Film Critic
High and Low * April 21 at 8pm
Guest Speaker: Michael Atkinson, Village Voice Film Critic
Rashomon * April 28
Madadayo * May 2-3
May 2: Madadayo Sunday Schmooze
Film, Discussion, and Hot Bagel Breakfast
Breakfast at 10am, Film at 11am, Discussion to follow
Guest Speaker: Vic Skolnick, CAC Co-Director
Throne of Blood * May 5
A marvelous opportunity to experience the many extraordinary films
of Japan's Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998). He bridged the gap between the
auteur and the popular filmmaker and in the process made Japanese cinema a
vital part of the US-International filmgoer's menu from the 1940s to the
1990s. Over that extraordinary half-century career Kurosawa, in opening the
door to Japanese cinema, contributed to the undoing of the crass racial
stereotyping of Japan, its people, and their culture by World War II
propaganda. Akira Kurosawa's films are personal moral tales told as
riveting dramas. They are shaped by an exciting mercurial blending of
dynamic physicality coupled with the most tender trop humane sensibilities;
his characters are trapped and held by the powerful torque of personal
desire pulling against individual and communal social responsibility. Add
to that Kurosawa's alternately quiet and raucous ribald sense of humor and
his use of familiar faces - Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura, who, in a
wide range of roles, set the table for a spectacular cinema feast that
gratifies all the senses. How did he do it? Kurosawa melded popular
elements of European-US film genre with Japanese aesthetics and
sensibilities, and in so doing was responsible for drawing attention to the
unique art of Japanese cinema. His artistry belied the old adage that East
is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet. With the creation
of a new pristine print of Seven Samurai the Cinema Arts Centre celebrates
the 50th anniversary of one of Akira Kurosawa's most popular masterpieces of
his singular half-century career that began in the 1940s and lasted to the
1990s. The Cinema offers a wonderful mix of some of the highlights of his
awesome filmmaking career: Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of
Blood (1957), Yojimbo (1961), High and Low (1963), and Madadayo (1993), his
last film made just prior to his death in 1998 at age 88.
Susan Finkelstein, Publicist
Cinema Arts Centre
423 Park Ave
Huntington, NY 11743
631-423-7611 x14
fax 631-423-5411
[email protected]
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