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Rashomon
Sat, May 7 | 5pm | TMT
Akira Kurosawa’s classic, time-shifting drama about a fateful encounter between a samurai, his wife, and a bandit in a desolate forest received an Honorary Foreign Language Film Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1951. With striking black- and-white cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa and Oscar-nominated Art Direction (Black-and- White), not to mention Toshiro Mifune's ferocious performance, Rashomon remains one of global cinema's most influential films.
DIRECTOR: Akira Kurosawa.
WRITTEN BY: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto. CAST: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura.
1950. 88 min. Japan. B&W. Japanese. 35mm.
Restored by the Academy Film Archive, The National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and Kadokawa Pictures, Inc.
She’s Gotta Have It
Sat, May 7 | 7:30pm | TMT
Spike Lee’s microbudget feature She's Gotta Have It announced him as a filmmaking force to be reckoned with upon its release in 1986 and earned Lee a special Award of the Youth at the Cannes Film Festival. Tracy Camilla Johns plays Nola Darling, an independent young woman struggling to balance the men in her life, among them Lee himself playing the droll Mars Blackmon. Boasting vivid black-and-white cinematography by Ernest Dickerson and a jazz score by the filmmaker’s father, Bill Lee, She's Gotta Have It is a signature piece of American independent cinema.
DIRECTOR: Spike Lee.
WRITTEN BY: Spike Lee.
CAST: Tracy Camilla Johns, Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell, Joie Lee. 1986. 84 min. USA. B&W and Color. English. 35mm.
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