Kurosawa film festival in Palo Alto, CA

[Saionji Shonagon]

Stanford Theatre 221 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA

The Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto is running a Kurosawa festival starting this week with The Seven Samurai. The retrospective includes classic jidaigeki as well as films on modern subjects such as Scandal, Ikiru and Drunken Angel. Tickets are $7 adults.
www.stanfordtheatre.org/stf/calendars/Kurosawa.html

[Noriko]

There is a similar film festival at the Brattle Theater in Harvard Square in April for us on the east coast (: Kurosawa for everyone!

www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/calendar.html#100127

[Saionji Shonagon]

The part where I make you all into hannya: the theatre dates to 1925 and has not only not been chopped into an umptyplex, it has been beautifully restored and features pre-show (and in this case, intermission) organ music on the Mighty Wurlitzer. The theme from "The Magnificent Seven" played us into the opening of the curtains and nearly three hours of the best storytelling on film.




I want to hit tomorrow's matinee of "Rashomon," followed by "Scandal," which I have never seen.