Evento

Seijun Suzuki: ZIGUERNERWEISEN on 35mm

Sat Apr 23 | 2:00 pm

First of the Taisho trilogy

Named the best film of the 1980s in a poll of Japanese film critics, Zigeunerweisen takes its title from a recording of violin music by Pablo de Sarasate. The piece haunts the films two main characters: Aochi, an uptight professor at a military academy, and his erstwhile colleague Nakasago, who is now a wild-haired wanderer and possible murderer. The movies plot is a metaphysical ghost story involving love triangles, doppelgangers, and a blurred line between the worlds of the living and the dead. Underlying the teasing riddles, writes film critic Tony Rayns, is an aching lament for the sumptuous hybrid culture of the 1920s that was swept away by the militarism of the 1930s. --- Smithsonian Institute

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Co-presented with Northwest Film Forum
35mm prints!

Part of Action, Anarchy and Audacity: A Seijun Suzuki Retrospective

On the occasion of the publication of Time and Place are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki by Tom Vick, the Grand Illusion Cinema and Northwest Film Forum are pleased to present a touring retrospective of Suzukis films. Series curated by Tom Vick, curator of film, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, and co-organized with the Japan Foundation.