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Do we continue with the film club?

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New book from Bert Cardullo: Close Watching (includes Kurosawa essay)

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4 weeks

Film Club: Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

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May 27

Film Club: Kagemusha (Kurosawa, 1980)

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May 26

Film Club: Persona (Bergman, 1966)

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May 21

Machiko Kyo

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May 7

Western actors in "Sanshiro Sugata part 2"

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May 6

Replay years later to the discussion Sanjuro – The Camellias

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April 20

Shadow (new film by Zhang Yimou) has echoes of Kurosawa's Kagemusha

Ugetsu

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March 26

Film Club: Stray Dog (Kurosawa, 1949)

Ugetsu

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March 24

Kurosawa autobiography rights

Vili Maunula

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March 24

New Italian book: Dalla katana al revolver (Kurosawa + Leone)

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March 16

Alternate Rashomon analysis

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March 15

Kagemusha – Shorter or Longer Cut?

C. Richard

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March 11

Shiro Toyoda

Mugibuefan

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March 1

Film Club: Coriolanus (Fiennes, 2011)

Ugetsu

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February 16

The Glorious Seven

Vili Maunula

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February 15

San Juan’s new book

Lewis Saul

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February 5

No Regrets for Our Youth analysis

Vili Maunula

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February 2

Book Review: On Kurosawa – A Tribute to the Master Director

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