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*NOTE* NO MOVIE NIGHT LAST NIGHT


from a New York Times article (Dave Kehr, 7.25.08)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/movies/25wmovies.html

JAPANESE SCREEN CLASSICS (Wednesday and Thursday)
This collection of 24 Japanese films was presented at this year’s Cannes Film Festival as a tribute to Kashiko Kawakita, who until her death in 1993 was a tireless campaigner on behalf of bringing Japanese films to the world and the world cinema to Japan. In 1982 she created the nonprofit Japan Film Library Council (now known as the Kawakita Memorial Film Institute), an organization dedicated to keeping the leading Japanese directors’ work in circulation; the eight filmmakers united here are all better known today because of her support.

The series begins on Wednesday with Akira Kurosawa’s famous “Rashomon” (1950) at 5 p.m. and continues that day with Kon Ichikawa’s seldom-seen period drama “Her Brother” (1960) at 7 p.m. and Kaneto Shindo’s portrait of an aging stage actress, “A Last Note” (1995), at 9 p.m. Thursday brings a 1976 entry from Yoji Yamada’s long-running “Tora-san” series, “Tora-san’s Sunrise and Sunset,” at 6:15, and Nagisa Oshima’s radical 1966 take on the lovers-on-the-run genre, “Violence at Noon,” at 8:30. The series continues through Aug. 14, with work by Sumiko Handeda, Shohei Imamura and Seijun Suzuki to come. Walter Reade Theater 165 West 65th Street, (212) 875-5600, filmlinc.org; $11. (Kehr)


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http://www.midnighteye.com/features/behind-the-pink-curtain.shtml