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The Benshi

2008-07-11 17:52:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
 
...benshi or katsuben , and in their heyday they were more popular than the stars acting on the screen I'm by no means versed in the benshi tradition. I've never seen a benshi perform live. The SFSFF has brought the foremost modern benshi , Midori Sawato , to perform for the Sessue Hayakawa film the Dragon Painter , but unfortunately that was...
 
Tags: benshi, silent film, silent film festival, tradition, benshi tradition, film, european film imports, benshi accompaniment, foremost modern benshi
 
 
 
 
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Two years

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2007-06-14 23:59:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
...Benshi event at Artists Television Access on July 7th
 
Tags: silent film, silent film festival, film, fantastic film, jewish film festival, pretty difficult film, festival, films, nathaniel dorsky films
 
 
 
 
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VCDs of two major Mario O'Hara films (Bakit Bughaw and Kastilyong Buhangin); plus other DVD releases

2008-04-30 19:59:00 by Noel Vera in Critic After Dark
 
...benshi -style for your benefit Abel Gance's J'Accuse (1919) is great, and moving in ways Napoleon (a more visually spectacular and complex film) is not. The storyline is pure melodrama, but the way it's carried out is hard to resist--Gance's hokiness is so much more sophisticated than Griffith's, or even Murnau's, at least in Sunrise ( 1927)...
 
Tags: kastilyong buhangin, films, pure melodrama, melodrama, abel gance, kira, kiyoshi, complex film, kurosawa kiyoshi
 
 
 
 
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Kakabakaba Ka Ba? (Does Your Heart Beat Faster? Mike de Leon, 1980)

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2008-05-10 02:33:00 by Noel Vera in Critic After Dark
...benshi duties. That, or learn Tagalog. Anyway, Mike's such a visual director, his films are worth buying without subtitles Critic After Dark: a Review of Philippine Cinema
 
Tags: leon, noted filipino films, films, dolphy films, leon films, filipino, filipino word kaba, dance, mike
 
 
 
 
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For those who have seen Tropical Malady

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2007-04-08 23:49:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
...benshi-style narration practiced throughout East Asia until sound cinema displaced it, country by country, starting in the 1930s. What this has to do with Joe's films and videos is fodder for an entirely other realm of inquiry that I hope to explore someday 4. The shot in which Keng rests against a tree was based on an old photograph of a...
 
Tags: film, film industry, film dialogue, personal film, silent film era, joe, joe cops, joe deals, famously enigmatic film
 
 
 
 
 
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