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...memory. And it isn't the first miniature MP3 player. But it is the first USB gadget sold in the U.S. with a video camera, still camera and MP3 player all inside a single unit about the size of a breakfast sausage. There's even a tiny LCD screen on the back for viewing images...
...comprehensive retrospective wasn’t easy to bring to the Archive; because of its size, organizers worried about funding and being able to screen as many films as they hoped. “A retrospective so large brings in a lot of expenses we couldn’t meet,” explains Barron. Rentals of $300 to $600 per film, as well as shipping and promotion costs, added up to more than the HFA could afford...
...Saturday, April 24, the HFA screened one of Ozu’s silent films, I Was Born, But... (Umarete Wa mita karedo) the way audiences would have seen it in the 1930s: a live benshi performed while the movie played on the screen. During the silent film era in Japan, benshi served as narrators to the on-screen action, playing a key part in popularizing motion pictures throughout the country. Saturday’s performance will come from Midori Sawato, one of the few remaining practicing benshi in the world. The live narration is a performance...
...film to close the series and the last film that Ozu made before his death in 1987, An Autumn Afternoon (Samma no Aji) will screen on May 11. The film will be introduced by Japanese New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda, whose wife, Shima Iwashita, plays the role of the wife in Autumn Afternoon. The year it was made, the film won the Kinema Jumpo prize in Japan, an honor roughly analogous to the best picture Oscar in America...
...field of psychology during his time at Harvard. He has a loving wife and five successful children. Then of course, there’s that small matter of his two best-selling and critically acclaimed novels, and his achievements as a veteran Hollywood screenwriter—with screen credits including Alex & Emma, The Legend of Bagger Vance, and Don Juan DeMarco, which he also directed. His new movie, The Notebook, opens in theatres everywhere on June...