For the past few months, New Yorkers have been treated to some great programs of rarely-screened films by major Japanese filmmakers at Japan Society. In the monthly film series "The Dark Side of the Sun: John Zorn on Japanese Cinema," avant-garde composer and musician John Zorn curated screenings (one with live musical accompaniment) of rare and overlooked Japanese films. The films were quite an eclectic bunch: a silent classic (Kinugasa Teinosuke's Crossroads); pink films (Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands and Top Stripper); and a cult monster movie (Godzilla director Honda Ishiro's Matango aka Attack of the Mushroom People). (You can read Peter Gutierrez's nice piece on Crossroads and Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands here.)The series wraps on February 20 with rare work by...
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- 2/19/2015
- Screen Anarchy
If you're even just a little familiar with the music of John Zorn, the films he's curated for his monthly series, The Dark Side Of The Sun, at Japan Society, shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. Alternately bold and subtle, and somehow relentlessly experimental while remaining within the context of the traditional, even the sentimental, these are movies that combine high art and hard fun in unforgettable ways. At least that's the case with Inflatable Sex Doll Of The Wastelands (1967), which screens this Saturday, and Crossroads (1928), playing November 15. Regarding the latter, you should know that Kinugasa Teinosuke's silent will be accompanied by a live shamisen-and-percussion performance... but, trust me, even when viewed completely soundlessly the film's imagery carries its own...
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- 10/17/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Always lending a helping hand, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were spotted visiting Bosnian refugees at the former Yugoslav republic of Montenegro on Tuesday (April 6).
The "Curious Case of Benjamin Button" star knows Montenegro from when he shot "The Dark Side of the Sun" there in 1988. The owner of the Splendid hotel near Budva explained, "Brad Pitt told me that he had wanted to show Montenegro to Angelina as he had nice memories of Perast, Sveti Stefan and Kotor where he had shot one of his first movies, at the beginning of his career in 1980s. He told me they could bring the kids here for a vacation as they like it and the nature is nice."
The couple was in Bosnia on Monday and spent time visiting internally displaced Bosnians that continue to live in the collective centers that still have horrific conditions, even 14 years after the end of the war.
The "Curious Case of Benjamin Button" star knows Montenegro from when he shot "The Dark Side of the Sun" there in 1988. The owner of the Splendid hotel near Budva explained, "Brad Pitt told me that he had wanted to show Montenegro to Angelina as he had nice memories of Perast, Sveti Stefan and Kotor where he had shot one of his first movies, at the beginning of his career in 1980s. He told me they could bring the kids here for a vacation as they like it and the nature is nice."
The couple was in Bosnia on Monday and spent time visiting internally displaced Bosnians that continue to live in the collective centers that still have horrific conditions, even 14 years after the end of the war.
- 4/6/2010
- GossipCenter
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