April Friday, April 1 at 7pm
Saturday, April 9 at 7pm
EIGHT HOuRS OF FEAR
TOKYO DRIFTER
Directors in Focus: Seijun Suzuki
Directors in Focus: Seijun Suzuki
dir. Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1966, DCP, 83 min., color, Japanese w/ English subtitles
dir. Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1957, 35mm, 77 min., b/w, Japanese w/ English subtitles
A crazy yarn about a reformed yakuza on the run from his former comrades.
When their train is trapped by a landslide, passengers, including a murderer escorted by police officers, pile into a bus to proceed through the rugged countryside. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
Saturday, April 2 at 2pm Directors in Focus: Seijun Suzuki
PASSPORT TO DARKNESS
dir. Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1959, 35mm, 88 min., b/w, Japanese w/ English subtitles
In this stylish film noir, a trombonist goes on an all-night bender after his wife disappears during their honeymoon. When he finds her corpse, he begins a frantic quest to find her killer. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
Saturday, April 2 at 5pm Directors in Focus: Seijun Suzuki
THE SLEEPING BEAST WITHIN
dir. Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1960, 35mm, 86 min., b/w, Japanese w/ English subtitles
A businessman vanishes upon his return from an overseas trip, so his daughter hires a reporter to help find him. When the father reappears, the reporter becomes suspicious and starts digging deeper, uncovering a secret world of heroin smuggling and murder. Following the screening, author Tom Vick will sign copies of his new book, Time and Place Are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
Saturday, April 2 at 8pm Directors in Focus: Seijun Suzuki
YOuTH OF THE BEAST
dir. Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1963, 35mm, 91 min., b/w, Japanese w/ English subtitles
A disgraced ex-cop pits two yakuza gangs against each other to avenge the death of a fellow officer. Introduced by Tom Vick - Curator of Film, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
Thursday, April 14 at 7pm Pop: On Screen and Around the World
Tuesday, April 5 at 7pm
The Dept. Of Hispanic Studies At The University Of Pennsylvania Presents:
NEGRABLANCA
dir. Helena de Llanos, Spain, 2015, HD video, 90 min., color, Spanish w/ English subtitles.
The filmmakers traveled to a town in southern Spain, where they invited community members to co-create a film that interweaves lived histories and fictionalized accounts to confront a question central to a community’s history: “Did this happen or did we make this up?” FREE ADMISSION
Wednesday, April 6 at 7pm
Archive Fever! 7.0 - From The Temple University Archives
THREE TEMPLE uNIVERSITY STuDENT FILMS BY STANFORD PROFESSOR/ FILMMAKER JAN KRAWITZ
dir. Khalil Al-Mozian, Palestine, 2012, digital file, 47 min., color
Gaza looks at the glory days of Gaza Strip movie theaters and considers the role of pleasure in an Islamic society. Followed by:
LAuRA MARKS: AFFECTIONS
dir. Grahame Weinbren, USA, 2015, digital file, 25 min.
dir. James Crump, USA, 2015, DCP, 72 min.
CINEBLATZ
dir. Jeff Keen, UK, 1967, video, 3 min., color
MARVO MOVIE
dir. Jeff Keen, UK, 1967, video, 5 min., color
MEATDAZE
dir. Jeff Keen, UK, 1968, video, 9 min., color
FREE ADMISSION Pop: On Screen and Around the World is guest curated by Ed Halter and organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art on the occasion of the exhibition International Pop on view at the Museum through May 15, 2016.
A CHICKEN IN EVERY POT
GATE OF FLESH
Family Matinee
SITA SINGS THE BLuES
dir. Nina Paley, USA, digital, 75 min. color, in English
A dazzling animated retelling of Ramayana, the ancient Indian epic. FREE ADMISSION
Wednesday, April 27 at 7pm Cityscapes: Vienna
PRATER
dir. Ulrike Ottinger, Germany, 2007, digital, 104 min., color, German w/ English subtitles
The beguiling images in Prater transform the mythical Viennese attraction into a cinematic experience.
dir. Andy Warhol, USA, 1965, 16mm, 34 min. b/w
dir. Jan Krawitz, USA, 1978, 16mm, 29 min., color
Directors in Focus: Seijun Suzuki
Saturday, April 23 at 2pm
RESTAuRANT (AKA L’AVVENTuRA) / THE LIFE OF JuANITA CASTRO
dir. Jan Krawitz, USA, 1979, 16mm, 29 min., b/w
Thursday, April 7 at 7pm
Troublemakers unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s.
Worldwide Warhol
COTTON CANDY AND ELEPHANT STuFF
FREE ADMISSION
TROuBLEMAKERS: THE STORY OF LAND ART
Friday, April 29 at 7pm
dir. Jan Krawitz, USA, 1976, 16mm, 10 min., b/w
Friday, April 15 at 7pm Full Exposure
DREAMS REWIRED
Warhol shot this intriguing short film in an Italian restaurant in New York City, where one of the film’s stars, Edie Sedgwick, was a regular. Followed by:
dir. Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart & Thomas Tode, Austria/Germany, UK, DCP, 2015, 85 min., color/b+w, in English
THE LIFE OF JuANITA CASTRO
Part social realist drama, part sadomasochistic trash opera, Gate of Flesh paints a dog-eat-dog portrait of postwar Tokyo. Introduced by Rob Buscher, Director, Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
Dreams Rewired traces the desires and anxieties of today’s hyper-connected world back more than 100 years to the birth of the telephone, television and cinema.
Friday, April 8 at 7pm
TALES OF SORROW AND SADNESS
A model is groomed to become a professional golfer as a publicity stunt. When she excels at the sport, her success leads a deranged fan to hatch a blackmail scheme. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
Loosely inspired by Fidel Castro’s sister, who defected from Cuba to the United States. The films will be introduced by Dr. Homay King, History of Art Professor, Bryn Mawr College, who will be joined for a post-screening discussion by Iggy Cortez, PhD candidate in the Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania. FREE ADMISSION This program is supported by Kaja Silverman and the Mellon Foundation’s Distinguished Achievement Award, the Katherine Stein Sachs and Keith L. Sachs Program in Contemporary Art in the Department of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Alice Paul Center for the Study of Gender, Sexuality, and Women at the University of Pennsylvania.
Saturday, April 16 at 8pm
Saturday, April 30 at 11am
dir. Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1964, 35mm, 90 min., color, Japanese w/ English subtitles
dir. Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1965, 35mm, 87 min., color, Japanese w/ English subtitles
GAZA 36MM
Described as a “rock concerto for film,” this is Whitehead’s take on swinging London in the 1960s, with music by Pink Floyd and others. Preceded by:
dir. Peter Whitehead, UK, 1967, video, 65 min., color
STYX
TATTOOED LIFE
An Evening with Laura U. Marks
Wednesday, April 20 at 7pm
Director Jan Krawitz in person
Directors in Focus: Seijun Suzuki
Monday, April 4 at 7pm
TONIGHT LET’S ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON
Set in the 1930s, Tattooed Life is the story of two brothers: Kenji, an art student, and Tetsu, who is working as a yakuza to help pay for Kenji’s tuition. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
Saturday, April 16 at 5pm Directors in Focus: Seijun Suzuki
dir. Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1977, 35mm, 93 min., color, Japanese w/ English subtitles
Saturday, April 9 at 2pm
Directors in Focus: Seijun Suzuki
BEST OF THE FEST: KID FLIX MIX I
dir. Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1967, DCP, 91 min., b/w, Japanese w/ English subtitles
Family Matinee
dir. Various, USA, digital, 60 min., color, in English
Audience favorites and award-winning short films from the New York International Children’s Film Festival, for ages 3 to 8.
BRANDED TO KILL
Perhaps Suzuki’s most famous film, this send-up of B movie clichés about an assassin has been cited as an influence by filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and John Woo.
dir. Andy Warhol, US, 1965, 16mm, 66 min. b/w
Exhumed Films Presents
EX-FEST PART VI!
A 12-hour marathon of films whose titles are only revealed to the audience as each film is projected.
DIRECTORS IN FOCuS: SEIJuN SuZuKI APRIL 1 - 16, 2016 International House Philadelphia proudly presents the Smithsonian’s touring retrospective of films by legendary Japanese director Seijun Suzuki. co-organized with the Japan Foundation, the series includes screenings of nine groundbreaking films by Suzuki, who has amassed a stunning, boundlessly creative body of work in a career spanning nearly five decades. The series features Suzuki films from the 1950s and 1960s. Tom Vick, curator of Film, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, will visit International House on Saturday, April 2 to sign copies of his new book, Time and Place Are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki at the 5pm screening of The Sleeping Beast Within. He will then introduce the 8pm screening of Youth of the Beast, one of Suzuki’s breakthrough films. “To experience a film by Japanese B-movie visionary Seijun Suzuki is to experience Japanese cinema in all its frenzied, voluptuous excess,” New York Times Film critic Manohla Dargis has said of Suzuki, whose films range from classic “B movie” potboilers to beguiling metaphysical mysteries.
Friday, April 1 at 7pm
Friday, April 8 at 7pm
Saturday, April 2 at 2pm
Saturday, April 9 at 7pm
Saturday, April 2 at 5pm
Saturday, April 16 at 5pm
EIGHT HOuRS OF FEAR PASSPORT TO DARKNESS
THE SLEEPING BEAST WITHIN Saturday, April 2 at 8pm
YOuTH OF THE BEAST
Saturday, April 7 at 7pm
GATE OF FLESH
TATTOOED LIFE
TOKYO DRIFTER
TALES OF SORROW AND SADNESS
Saturday, April 16 at 8pm
BRANDED TO KILL