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Considered one of Japan's best filmmakers, Imamura is chiefly known for "The Ballad of Narayama," which won the Palme d'Or award in 1983 and has since become a classic of contemporary cinema. The visit is intended to give scholars and film buffs a chance to become acquainted with both the films and their maker, said Petric...
Petric said Imamura's films "aim in cinema toreflect the mentality of the Japanese people,"adding that Imamura's focus on his native culturehas contributed to his fame as a director. Petricsaid Imamura is "the most important director inJapanese cinema, together with [Akira] Kurowsawa."Kurowsawa's most recent film...
CULTURE SHOCK comes to the cinema in Dark Eyes, filmed in both the USSR and Italy. Director Nikita Mikhalkov is Russian, while his actors and their dialogue are Italian. Based on several short stories by Anton Chekhov, the film stars that mainstay of Italian cinema, Marcello Mastroianni, as a womanizer (what else?). Russian in outlook but quintessentially Italian in its characterization, Dark Eyes is a unique and almost dizzying blending of the two cultures from which it is drawn...
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...Rosa Luxemburg is a richly told tale of this unsung hero. Von Trotta, who has acted in such films as The Lost Honor of Katherina Blum and directed several critically acclaimed works, including Sisters and Sheer Madness, lives up to her reputation as a dominant personality in German cinema. Rosa Luxemburg brings to life the harsh personal and political life of Luxemburg...