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> Katharine Hamer
News Reporter khamer@nsuews.comt

. ‘THE most influential director ©:

“, Japanese cinema ever produced gets
centre-stage coverage at Pacific. ~
, Cinematheque starting tonight.

“Akira Kurosawa created an oeuvre of wide-
ty respec:..d and oft-imitated work, including
” Rashomon (1950); Seven Samurai (1954);
‘Throne af Blood (1957); and
Ran (1985).
~. Kurosawa’s output was
- huge: he was renowned for
bis observational commen-.
tary on modern Japanese .
society with films like
“Drunken Angel (1948) --
but became perhaps best’
known for his jidai-gzki
(period films) —- many of...
which were samurai-style |.
“adaptations of Shakespearean ‘
tragedy. |

., Among the directors ,
spired by his work:were ‘George Lucas,” .
Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis’ |:
Ford Coppola, John .Woo, and Sergio Leone.

Leone’s classic spaghetti western, A Fisful
of Dollars; which helped propel Clint :
Eastwood to fame; was a remake of ©

oth films will play at Cinematheque as
of “The Legacies of Kurosawa”. —
iajor North American conference on th
cor’s work since his death in‘199 :
Also featured are: Driinken Angel, Thro:
f Blood; and a 50th annive screening of”

= AS part of the conference, co-sponsored by: °

's ‘School of. Communications and the

xperts will peak at'a free panel discussion at
FU Barbour Centre’ this weekend. :

15,9:

Meet The Parents (PG); —1

Pp.
a Esplanade 6 Cinemas
00, W: Esplanade, North
Vancouver (983- a)

“I was so fed up with the
_ world of the Yakuza. In
order to attack their
evil and irretionality,
and thoroughly mess.
them up, I brought in
“the super-samurai:
played by Mifuene (in
. Yoyimbo).”
— Akira Kurosawa

neastes convene

lms

Donald Richie is widely recognized as the
world’s leading expert on “Kurosawa and
Japanese cinema. Richie is arts critic for The
Japan Times and is the author of several :

- books on the director including the seminal

text The Films of Akira Kurosawa.

Stephen Prince trom the Virginia
Polytechnical Institute is the author of The
Warriar’s Caniera: The Films of Akira
Kurosawa. an

Scheduled discussions are: “The Legacy of
Akiza Kurosawa in Japanese
Cinema and Culture” (today
at 4:30 p.m.); “Rashonion

a.m.); and “The Influence of
Kurosawa Outside Japan”
(Saturday 4:30 p.m.)

All of the presentations
will be an hour-and-a- half in,
length. :

At the end of October,
Cinematheque offers’
“CinéFrance 2000”: 10 years
of emerging French filmmak-
ers, with four Vancouver pre-

"smieres:. Eric Rochant’s A-World Without Pity,
.: Catherine Corsini’s Les Amorenx, Cédric
‘Kahn's Bar des Rails, and Arnaud
~- Besplechin’s My Sex Life. OF How I Got into

an Argument.
~ Erick Zonca’s first feature, The Dreamlife”
of Angels, is also on the program. The a

about two misfit roommates in‘ Lille, won a.
joint best actréss award for its two leading

women at the 1998 Cannes Fiim Festival.

In addition, there will be a screenin of a
"new 35 mm print of Jean Eustache’s me
Mother and the Whore (dubbed “the ; greatest’

Frencii film of the 1970s” by Cahiers du cin:
ma).
The season opens with a reception hosted

‘by the French Consulate on Monday, Oct.

23...
For more information about

ss Cinematheque Programs, call 688- FILM..

' Saving Geace (PG) — 7:18,
9:20 p.m. plus Sat/Sun/Mon
1:45, 4 pm? and Tue 4 p.m,
- The Tao of Steve (PG) ~
~.7:25, 9:30 p.m. plas 3008
Sat/Sun/Mon 2: 15, 4:45 Pp. me.
and Tue 4:45 p.m. -
1. Girl Fight (14A) ~ 7:10, 9:40.
"pam. plus Sat/Sun 2, 4: 30, p.m
* and Tue 4:30 p.mo

~ Dancer In The Dark (144) _

“7. 8, 9:50 pame plus ®
Sat/Sun/Mon’ r. 154210, 5.°
p-m.-and Tue.4:10, 5 p.m, (no;

“3 py m. show on. Wed, Ost. iy

wi Park Theatre
» 3440 Cambie. at‘ 18the:)
Vancouver (876- 2747)

aw ‘Pacifi ic Cinematheque.
-/ 2131 Howe St, ” Mancoure

and its Effects” (Saturday 11°.”

that “Nothing bad

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A 50th anniversary screening of Akira Kurosawa’ S ‘glassic filmi Rashorzors Wi

; * through 3 al the ‘tragedy which
befalls her. She firmly believes

hap-
pens in musicals
A strong supporting cast’

_includes Catherine Deneuve.

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heart soar one miriute and the

ext make you feel like
on a guided tour of
uschwitz. In February.
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dent that most 1 people will’

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you've just stepped
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