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. ‘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. :

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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

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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

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“Singin? in the Rain and » Schindler's List. iv'll make yor heart soar one miriute and the

ext make you feel like on a guided tour of uschwitz. In February. ‘The tilm’s distributors

(Part. of a a short season dedicated to the director’ s work at Pacific Cinematheque

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“warm to. Dancer: audien ~ both here and abroad have’ » been told they can have their ©

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