Post by Pusscat on Jan 11, 2006 17:27:59 GMT
Just got sent this:
The Cruel Beauty of Masumura Yasuzo
An exquisite selection from the 58 movies that the director made, this is a rare opportunity to see his work.
It's almost impossible to have a true understanding of the development of contemporary Japanese cinema without having seen at least some of Masumura Yasuzo's hugely influential and dazzling body of 58 films. Not only did he trigger the 1960s Japanese New Wave, directly inspiring Oshima and Imamura, but it's hard to imagine the prominence of contemporary bad boys of Japanese cinema such as Miike 'Audition' Takeshi or Tsukamoto 'Tetsuo' Shinya without Masumura's fearless lead. Masumura's deliriously breathtaking cannon ranges across eroticism, satire, war, crime, capitalism and gender politics. He never loses sight of the complex, flawed yet inspiring human beings at the heart of all his films. His striking, often 'scope, modernist visual style with its emotionally expressive use of architecture and lighting create an intense immediacy adding further depth and meaning to his highly entertaining body of work. His unique mixture of Eastern and Western sensibilities created a truly universal cinema unlike anything before it.
Giants and Toys
(Kyojin to Gangu)
Weds 11th Jan 8.15pm Vue at the Light
www.leedsfilm.com/2009/lfq/film/63102
A False Student
(Nise Daigakuse)
Mon 16th Jan 6.15pm Vue at the Light
www.leedsfilm.com/2009/lfq/film/63102
The Precipice
(Hyohek)
Weds 18th Jan 8.15pm Vue at the Light
www.leedsfilm.com/2009/lfq/film/63102
A Wife Confesses
(Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru)
Mon 23rd Jan 6.15pm Vue at the Light
www.leedsfilm.com/2009/lfq/film/63102
Red Angel
(Akai Tenshi)
Weds 25th Jan 8.15pm Vue at the Light
www.leedsfilm.com/2009/lfq/film/63102
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
(Hanaoka Seishu No Tsuma)
Mon 30th Jan 6.15pm Vue at the Light
www.leedsfilm.com/2009/lfq/film/63102
For more information about Leeds Film Quarter see www.leedsfilm.com
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I am currently negotiating to see if I can get individual membership discounts - very unlikely. But I don't think we're going to have time to organise it as if you look, you'll see they start showing today!
The Cruel Beauty of Masumura Yasuzo
An exquisite selection from the 58 movies that the director made, this is a rare opportunity to see his work.
It's almost impossible to have a true understanding of the development of contemporary Japanese cinema without having seen at least some of Masumura Yasuzo's hugely influential and dazzling body of 58 films. Not only did he trigger the 1960s Japanese New Wave, directly inspiring Oshima and Imamura, but it's hard to imagine the prominence of contemporary bad boys of Japanese cinema such as Miike 'Audition' Takeshi or Tsukamoto 'Tetsuo' Shinya without Masumura's fearless lead. Masumura's deliriously breathtaking cannon ranges across eroticism, satire, war, crime, capitalism and gender politics. He never loses sight of the complex, flawed yet inspiring human beings at the heart of all his films. His striking, often 'scope, modernist visual style with its emotionally expressive use of architecture and lighting create an intense immediacy adding further depth and meaning to his highly entertaining body of work. His unique mixture of Eastern and Western sensibilities created a truly universal cinema unlike anything before it.
Giants and Toys
(Kyojin to Gangu)
Weds 11th Jan 8.15pm Vue at the Light
www.leedsfilm.com/2009/lfq/film/63102
A False Student
(Nise Daigakuse)
Mon 16th Jan 6.15pm Vue at the Light
www.leedsfilm.com/2009/lfq/film/63102
The Precipice
(Hyohek)
Weds 18th Jan 8.15pm Vue at the Light
www.leedsfilm.com/2009/lfq/film/63102
A Wife Confesses
(Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru)
Mon 23rd Jan 6.15pm Vue at the Light
www.leedsfilm.com/2009/lfq/film/63102
Red Angel
(Akai Tenshi)
Weds 25th Jan 8.15pm Vue at the Light
www.leedsfilm.com/2009/lfq/film/63102
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
(Hanaoka Seishu No Tsuma)
Mon 30th Jan 6.15pm Vue at the Light
www.leedsfilm.com/2009/lfq/film/63102
For more information about Leeds Film Quarter see www.leedsfilm.com
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I am currently negotiating to see if I can get individual membership discounts - very unlikely. But I don't think we're going to have time to organise it as if you look, you'll see they start showing today!
