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...high school on schedule, just over half of black and Hispanic students do. White fourth-graders are more than three times as likely to read proficiently as black fourth-graders. "The WHITE and COLORED signs did come down," says Derrick Bell, New York University law professor and author of Silent Covenants, a book on the unfulfilled hopes of Brown. "But the idea that putting black kids together with whites would solve our problems was naive in the extreme...
...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...
...stayed silent longer than his contemporaries, and Connor points out that his silent films were not readily available in 35 mm, their preferred viewing format, until recently. Furthermore, a great deal of his sound work hadn’t been subtitled properly, so Shochiku’s job of striking new prints was deeply appreciated by professors and fans alike...
...Ozu’s decision to stay silent after many of his colleagues had transferred over to sound technology, Connor explains that there are two kinds of directors: “One, those who say, ‘Here comes this technology, I’ve got to use it and master it immediately,’ and two, those who say, ‘I want to wait for it to be right...
...silent film set at Shochiku that he didn’t want to give up, a silent film cameraman he had a contract with, and didn’t have a definitive vision of how he wanted dialogue to work. He waited until he felt it was right and began using sound in 1936 with The Only Son (Hitori Musuko...