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Imamura
The Austin Film Society is screening a
a Shohei Imamura Retrospective at the Alamo
Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas, U.S.A. every Tuesday at 7pm until December 21, 1999.
Here are some impressions on these movies, as they are screened, from
me and from Steev (Everyone is welcome to submit theirs. See page bottom
for details). Click on the movie title below to go to its individual page.
| November
2nd, 7:00 pm
VENGEANCE IS MINE
(Fukusha Suru Wa Ware In Ari)
NEW 35MM PRINT
Japan 1979 128 minutes
Cast: Ken Ogata, Rentaro Mikuni |
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| November
9th, 7:00 pm
PIGS AND BATTLESHIPS
(Buta To Gunkan)
NEW 35MM SCOPE PRINT
Japan 1961 108 minutes
Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato, Tetsuro
Tambo |
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| November
16th, 7:00 pm
THE PORNOGRAPHERS
(Jinruigako Nyumon)
NEW 35MM SCOPE PRINT
Japan 1966 128 minutes
Cast: Shoichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto |
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| November
23rd, 7:00 pm
THE INSECT WOMAN
(Nippon Konchuki)
NEW 35MM SCOPE PRINT
Japan 1963 123 minutes |
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| November
30th, 6:30 pm
INTENTIONS OF MURDER
(Akai Satsui)
NEW 35MM SCOPE PRINT
Japan 1964 150 minutes Cast: Masumi
Harakuwa, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi |
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| December
7th, 6:30 pm
THE PROFOUND DESIRE OF THE GODS:
TALES FROM A SOUTHERN ISLAND
(Kamigami No Fukaki Yokubo)
NEW 35MM SCOPE PRINT
Japan 1968 150 minutes
Cast: Rentaro Mikuni, Choichiro
Kawarazaki |
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| December
14th, 6:30 pm
EIJANAIKA
(What the Hell!)
NEW 35MM SCOPE PRINT
Japan 1981 151 minutes
Cast: Kaori Momoe, Shigeru Tsuyugushi |
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| December
21st, 7:00 pm
THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA
(NARAYAMA-BUSHI-KO)
NEW 35MM SCOPE PRINT
Japan 1983 128 minutes
Cast: Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto |
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Thanks to the Austin Film Society and the Alamo Drafthouse for the screenings!
nan(d:o)
Original site from 1999. Revised Nov 14, 2007
[NOTE: before reading these
impressions on Imamura, I suggest you read this impression on one of
Fassbinder's films:
In a Year with
13 Moons. It will help you understand the tone of these impressions.
It was not my intention to "put down" Fassbinder's films or Imamura's or
anyone else's. In some ways, this was a little "experiment," and I was simply
putting into practice my "practice
and theory of impressions." Hope you find them interesting or fun to
read!]
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