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3/10/2002

Screenings

Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh

October/November Films. New from Japan. Friday, October 4, 7:30 p.m.: Owl's Castle.


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Carnegie Museum of Art Department of Film and Video
October/November Films

Friday, October 4, 7:30 p.m.
Owl's Castle

Saturday, October 5
Of Mice and Men, 1:30 p.m.
The Stone Flower, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 6, 7:30 p.m.
Owl's Castle

Thursday, October 10, 7:30 p.m.
Sadko

Friday, October 11, 7:30 p.m.
Vengeance for Sale

Saturday, October 12
The Grapes of Wrath, 1:30 p.m.
Sadko, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 13, 7:30 p.m.
Vengeance for Sale

Thursday, October 17, 7:30 p.m.
Viy

Friday, October 18, 7:30 p.m.
Lily Festival

Saturday, October 19
Lifeboat, 1:30 p.m.
Viy, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 20, 7:30 p.m.
Lily Festival

Friday, October 25, 7:30 p.m.
Warm Water under a Red Bridge

Saturday, October 26, 1:30 p.m.
East of Eden

Sunday, October 27, 7:30 p.m.
Warm Water under a Red Bridge

Friday, November 1, 7:30 p.m.
All about Lily Chou Chou

Sunday, November 3, 7:30 p.m.
All about Lily Chou Chou

Friday, November 8, 7:30 p.m.
Cure

Sunday, November 10, 7:30 p.m.
Cure

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Film Series

New from Japan
Through November 10, 2002

These outstanding comedies and dramas from Japan include a United States premiere, four Pittsburgh premieres, and a personal appearance by woman director Sachi Hamano. The series, organized with the assistance of Professor Keiko McDonald, is supported in part by the University of Pittsburgh's Asian Studies Program, with funding from the U.S. Department of Education through its National Resource Center Grant, and by the University of Pittsburgh's Japan Council, with funding from Toshiba International Foundation and the Japan Iron and Steel Federation Endowment.

University of Pittsburgh students, faculty, and staff with valid ID are admitted free to this series. All films are in Japanese with English subtitles.

Owl's Castle (Pittsburgh premiere)
Friday, October 4, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 6, 7:30 p.m.
This swashbuckling historical epic, set in 14th-century Japan, begins with Nobunaga, a feudal warlord, embarking on a campaign to consolidate his power. As Nobunaga ruthlessly climbs toward absolute rule, his army massacres a clan of Ninja warriors and their families. Among the few surviving witnesses to Nobunaga's carnage is Juzo, a skilled young Ninja. After 10 years in secluded preparation, Juzo's master sends him on a passionate revenge mission to infiltrate the most heavily guarded castle in the land and assassinate Nobunaga's famed successor, Hideyoshi, the first unifier of Japan.
(Japan, 1999) 138 min.
Directed by Masahiro Shinoda

Vengeance for Sale (Pittsburgh premiere)
Friday, October 11, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 13, 7:30 p.m.
Highly respected action director Okamoto evokes the heyday of 1960s samurai films with his latest movie, Vengeance for Sale. This wry action-comedy follows the travels of Sukeroku, a misguided provincial fellow who makes clumsy attempts to assist people seeking retribution for their grievances. When Sukeroku returns to his home village, his skills are given the ultimate test when a coldhearted government official viciously murders his father. (Japan, 2001) 88 min.
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto

Lily Festival (U.S. premiere)
Friday, October 18, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 20, 7:30 p.m.
Director Hamano, a renowned maker of over 300 "pinku eiga" or soft-core films, challenges the conventions of this male-dominated genre by openly celebrating sexuality from a woman's perspective. Lily Festival, her newest film, is a subversive, erotic fantasy in which a 75-year-old Casanova transforms an ordinary senior citizen's apartment building into a harem-like free love commune. Hamano's bawdy, taboo-shattering story combats sexism and ageism with charm and dignity. Director Sachi Hamano will be present at the Friday screening.
(Japan, 2001) 100 min.
Directed by Sachi Hamano
Warm Water under a Red Bridge (Pittsburgh premiere)
Friday, October 25, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 27, 7:30 p.m.
This whimsical adult fable, from veteran director Imamura, explores the physical essence of life, the human need for sex, and the concept of destiny. The story follows Yosuke, an unemployed businessman who travels to a remote seaside village in search of a legendary hidden treasure. Soon after his arrival, he finds himself magnetically drawn toward Saeko, a mysterious young woman with astonishing supernatural abilities.
(Japan, 2002) 119 min.
Directed by Shohei Imamura

All about Lily Chou Chou (Pittsburgh premiere)
Friday, November 1, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 3, 7:30 p.m.
Iwai's visionary masterpiece digs deeply into the mesmerizing world of Japanese cyber-pop. The story is about Yuichi, a 14-year-old boy who anesthetizes himself from the harshness of civilization with the shimmering music of an ethereal pop-diva named Lily Chou Chou. After creating a fanatical web site dedicated to worshiping Lily, Yuichi's idolization disintegrates into an unhealthy obsession, climaxing at a live Lily concert, where his Internet world collides with brutal reality.
(Japan, 2001) 146 min.
Directed by Shunji Iwai

Cure
Friday, November 8, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 10, 7:30 p.m.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (no relation to Akira) is one of Japan's most electrifying and original emerging directors. His first masterpiece is Cure, an atmospheric crime thriller that probes the gruesome psyche of a deranged killer. The suspenseful, terrifying story follows a desperate police detective tracking an epidemic of bizarre identical murders marked by a baffling "X" carved into each victim's body.
(Japan, 1997) 115 min.
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Film Series
Alexander Ptushko: Fantastic Animation
Through October 19, 2002

The brilliant and influential Russian animator Alexander Ptushko was, from the 1930s to the 1970s, an inventive teller of classic fairy tales, and this series includes Ptushko's own wonderful version of Sinbad. This rare opportunity to see glorious, new 35mm Ptushko prints make this series essential viewing for all generations of lovers of film and Russian culture. All films are in Russian with English subtitles.

The Stone Flower
Thursday, October 3, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 5, 7:30 p.m.
Set in the Ural Mountains, Ptushko's dreamlike, visually ravishing fable follows a melancholy young stone carver whose talents attract the attention of the mystical queen of Copper Hill. She seduces him into visiting her dazzling underground world, where the carver begins sculpting an enormous flower out of stone. Ptushko's first great artistic and popular success combines a hypnotic, almost religious intensity with images of stunning supernatural splendor.
(USSR, 1946) 83 min.
Directed by Alexander Ptushko

Sadko
Thursday, October 10, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 12, 7:30 p.m.
An oddly Russian Sinbad, Sadko seeks to bring happiness to his people by seeking out the "Bluebird of Happiness." His voyage takes him to faraway lands and eventually to India and Egypt. Two set pieces made a mark in film history: the underwater domain of the tsar of the ocean, and the golden temple of the Indian maharajah. A fantastical sequence of the Phoenix, a shimmering half-bird, half-woman, trapped inside the maharajah's gem-like palace, is one of Ptushko's greatest creations.
(USSR, 1953) 79 min.
Directed by Alexander Ptushko

Viy
Thursday, October 17, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 19, 7:30 p.m.
Based on a short story by Nikolai Gogol, Viy tells the story of a bumbling, novice priest who angers a demonic old hag. To take her revenge, the witch disguises herself as the beautiful corpse of a young woman, whose last wish is to have the priest pray over her for three nights. Once trapped inside the village church, the priest encounters an astoundingly grotesque parade of gargoyles and demons, literally erupting from the walls-and the gorgeous corpse, whirling around the church in a flying coffin!
(USSR, 1967) 78 min.
Directed by Konstantin Yershov & Giorgi Kropachyov, under the supervision of Alexander Ptushko

Film Series

Steinbeck on Film
October 5-26, 2002

This Saturday afternoon series is presented in conjunction with Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of writer John Steinbeck. These four classic films by four outstanding directors are based on famous Steinbeck texts. There will be an introduction to each program by Henry Veggian, teaching fellow and doctoral candidate at the University of Pittsburgh, with a discussion following each screening.

Filmgoers who present their museum admission receipts will receive a special $3 ticket price to films in this series.

Of Mice and Men
Saturday, October 5, 1:30 p.m.
Of Mice and Men follows a pair of drifters, George and his mentally challenged cousin, Lennie, as they endeavor to make an honest wage while dreaming of a better life, in Depression-era California. Director Milestone, at one time an itinerant worker himself, conveys a profound sense of the isolation of the American Western landscape with his moving adaptation of Steinbeck's 1937 novella (later made into a play). Of Mice and Men is one of Milestone's finest films and includes an extraordinary original score by American composer Aaron Copland.
(USA, 1939) 106 min.
Directed by Lewis Milestone

The Grapes of Wrath
Saturday, October 12, 1:30 p.m.
Director Ford based this landmark film on Steinbeck's 1939 Pulitzer-winning novel, which reflected America's fury about the Great Depression in poetic, biblical terms. Henry Fonda stars as Tom Joad, a rebounding ex-convict who decides to pack his extended family into a ramshackle old truck and leave their Oklahoma "dust bowl" home for the greener pastures of southern California. This tragic, stirring film stands as a microcosm of the Depression experience for millions of impoverished Americans.
(USA, 1940) 128 min.
Directed by John Ford

Lifeboat
Saturday, October 19, 1:30 p.m.
Steinbeck collaborated with director Hitchcock to create this psychological character study, set during World War II. Several distinctly different survivors find themselves adrift together in a small lifeboat after a Nazi U-boat sinks their ship. Another survivor, the German commander of the U-boat, also sunk in the exchange, is allowed aboard as a gesture of compassion and for the sake of his nautical skills. This decision proves fateful as the story develops into an intense, suspenseful thriller.
(USA, 1944) 96 min.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

East of Eden
Saturday, October 26, 1:30 p.m.
James Dean delivers an electrifying performance as Cal Trask, a tortured young man who longs for the approval of his emotionally distant father, Adam. Adam favors Cal's twin brother, Aron, who he believes can do no wrong, and Cal's attempts to win his father's love are met with steady disapproval. Cal's discovery of a forbidden secret about the fate of their mother threatens to tear the family apart. Set in the California farming valleys of 1917, the film, directed by Kazan, was based on Steinbeck's 1952 allegory about the nature of good and evil.
(USA, 1955) 115 min.
Directed by Elia Kazan

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Admission
Admission to CMA Cinema is $6; $5 for students, senior citizens, and Carnegie members; and $2 for CinéClub members.

University of Pittsburgh students, faculty, and staff with valid ID are admitted free to films in the New from Japan series.

Filmgoers who present their museum admission receipts will receive a special $3 ticket price to films in the Steinbeck on Film series.
Support
General support for the exhibitions and programs at Carnegie Museum of Art is provided by grants from The Heinz Endowments and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Department of Film and Video programs are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, and Dr. Lila Penchansky.

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