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DVD006830

Page of Madness / Portrait of a Young Man

Kinugasa, Teinosuke; Rodakiewicz, Henwar

Flicker Alley LLC, 2017

Description:

BluRay - Multi-Zone.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.

Notes:

Supplemental materials include: “Cinema Then, Cinema Now” - a discussion of A Page of Madness with psychologist Harvey Roy Greenberg and film historian Joseph Anderson, courtesy of CUNY Television; online essays on the two films, available at http://www.flickeralley.com/mod/critical-essays/.

Titles

+ Page of Madness

Alternate Title:

Kurutta Ippeiji

Director:

Kinugasa, Teinosuke

Running Time:

Feature.   71 minutes

Sound:

silent - with soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

Japan

Year:

1926

Language:

Japanese intertitles with English subtitles

Genre:

Drama, Silent Cinema, Film Adaptation

Notes:

With a brand new score by Alloy Orchestra. Based on a treatment written by Nobel Prize winning novelist Yasunari Kawabata, the story, as laid out in the script, is simple. A retired sailor becomes a custodian at a mental hospital to be closer to his estranged wife, one of the patients at the facility. Their daughter is soon to be married, but the father’s fear and pain surrounding his wife’s mental state threaten the future happiness of the family. Kinusaga utilizes flashbacks, rhythmic intercutting, and impressionist symbolism, all without intertitles, to visually inhabit the lives of the characters.

Link to:

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+ Portrait of a Young Man

Director:

Rodakiewicz, Henwar

Running Time:

Feature.   53 minutes

Sound:

silent - with soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1931

Language:

English intertitles

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Documentary, Silent Cinema

Notes:

This work was filmed sporadically over the span of six years in Bermuda, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and British Columbia. The film is broken into three movements, a structural analogy to a musical symphony, but also suggestive of the overall visual content: movement and how to capture it. In service of this study, Rodakiewicz employs various techniques, including slow motion, geometry, repetition, exposure, abstraction, and rhythm. This work pushes a step beyond naturalism and guides the viewer into a place of pure expression.