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SUMMARY:Some Nostalgic Place: The Films of Isao Takahata at BAMPFA
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive for a summer film series. \nDespite his sixty-year career as a director of hand-drawn animation\, Isao Takahata (1935–2018) would be the first to say\, “I myself really don’t draw.” He instead took pride in selecting talented animators and steering them toward his vision. Not being tied to his own style of drawing allowed him to transition from the maximalist fantasy of Pom Poko (1994) to the sketchlike\, comic-strip minimalism of My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)\, and the impressionistic watercolor and charcoal renderings of his final film\, The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013). Of his process with the animators\, Takahata said\, “I really get involved in the details of their drawings\, and then have them draw and [I] check those drawings\, and work collaboratively in that fashion.” His attention to detail reveals itself in the reverence his films have for both the natural world and the present-tense\, unremarked-upon moments in life\, such as the family in Only Yesterday (1991) learning how to properly slice a pineapple. \nTakahata cofounded Studio Ghibli along with his protégé\, friend\, and rival Hayao Miyazaki in 1985. He worked slowly; Miyazaki referred to him as a giant sloth but was also quick to point out that “sloths actually have very sharp claws.” With his first animated feature for the studio\, he challenged the preconceived notions of the medium with the unrelenting antiwar film Grave of the Fireflies (1988). Takahata pushed feature animation into uncharted territories\, and as Miyazaki remarked in his eulogy for his friend\, “he never bent the knee to anyone or anything.” \n—Jeff Griffith-Perham\, Associate Film Curator at the BAMPFA \nScreenings:\n*Please see the BAMPFA website for the most up-to-date listings and screentimes \nThursday\, July 2nd @ 7:00 PM | Only Yesterday\nSunday\, July 5th @ 4:00 PM | Only Yesterday\nSaturday\, July 11th @ 1:30 PM | Grave of the Fireflies\nSaturday\, July 18th @ 3:30 PM | The Tale of The Princess Kaguya\nSunday\, July 19th @ 5:00 PM | Gauche the Cellist\nSaturday\, July 25th @ 3:00 PM | The Story of Yanagawa Waterway\nSaturday\, August 1st @ 4:00 PM | My Neighbors the Yamadas\nSaturday\, August 22nd @ 3:30 PM | Pom Poko\nSunday\, August 23rd @ 2:00 PM | My Neighbor Totoro\nSunday\, August 23rd @ 4:30 PM | Grave of the Fireflies\nFriday\, August 28th @ 4:00 PM | The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
URL:https://www.usajapan.org/event/bampfa-isao-takahata-films/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:The Samurai and the Prisoner Screening with the Roxie Theater
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Roxie Theater for a screening of The Samurai and the Prisoner \n\nCelebrated Japanese horror director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure\, Serpent’s Path) explores a new path in this lush treatment of Honobu Yonezawa’s prizewinning historical novel\, detailing palace intrigue in the court of a samurai nobleman during the Azuchi era at the end of the 16th century. Turning against Oda Nobunaga\, the ruthless\, power-hungry warlord he previously served\, Araki Murashige (Masahiro Motoki\, of Departures) is besieged by Oda’s forces and bedevilled by a series of inexplicable crimes in his household. As tension rises and loyalties fray\, Murashige is forced to strategize with Kuroda Kanbei (Masaki Suda\, of Kurosawa’s 2024 thriller Cloud)\, a samurai envoy sent by Oda and imprisoned by Murashige\, while his wife Chiyoho (Yuriko Yoshitaka) and loyalists fight to preserve order. \n\nScreenings:\n*Please see the Roxie website for the most up-to-date listings and screentimes \nFriday\, August 14th @ 6:00 PM\nSaturday\, August 15th @ 8:10 PM\nSunday\, August 16th @ 3:10 PM
URL:https://www.usajapan.org/event/the-samurai-and-the-prisoner-screening-with-the-roxie-theater/
LOCATION:The Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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