"The Human Condition" (1959-1961)
April 8 -16
"The Human Condition" will be presented in three parts, with a separate admission for each part (marathon screenings on Saturday, Sunday, and the final Thursday).
A.O. Scott, The New York Times:
"In keeping with the grandeur of its title, “The Human Condition,” adapted by Masaki Kobayashi from Jumpei Gomikawa’s six-volume novel, is anything but modest in scope and ambition. First released in Japan, in three parts, between 1959 and 1961, the film is a sprawling, crowded 10-hour epic of love, war, heroism and cruelty. Shot in a wide-screen format called Grandscope and set mainly in Manchuria during the Japanese occupation, it seems intent on leaving nothing out. Mountains, forest, marshlands; marriage, combat, hard labor; the call of duty and the obligations of conscience — that over-reaching title turns out to be a pretty fair description of what’s on screen.
But “The Human Condition” is also, and most memorably, an intimately scaled chronicle of individual experience. Tatsuya Nakadai, who plays its hero, an idealistic technocrat named Kaji, appears in nearly every frame, and it is his deeply personal anguish that provides an emotional anchor for this episodic, theme-heavy story. Mr. Nakadai, one of Japan’s great movie stars of the 1960s (and the subject of a fantastic retrospective at Film Forum that concludes with a three-week run of an immaculate new print of “The Human Condition”), looks a bit like a young Gregory Peck. And in this film he plays, as Peck often did, a liberal man of principle trying to uphold his ideals in difficult circumstances."
Click HERE for a synopsis of the film.
PART I: NO GREATER LOVE
(3 hours, 28 min., plus intermission)
PART II: ROAD TO ETERNITY
(3 hours, 3 min., plus intermission)
PART III: A SOLDIER’S PRAYER
(3 hours, 16 min., plus intermission)
Get tickets and showtimes HERE.
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BAMcinematek
The Cruel Stories of Nagisa Oshima
April 6 - 14
Violence at Noon (Hakuchu No Torima)
Sat, April 11 at 2, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm
BAM Rose Cinemas
Double Suicide: Japanese Summer (Muri-Shinju: Nihon No Natsu)
Sun, April 12 at 2, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm
BAM Rose Cinemas
The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Tokyo-Sense Sengo Hiwa)
Mon, April 13 at 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm
BAM Rose Cinemas
Gohatto (Taboo)
Tue, April 14 at 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm
BAM Rose Cinemas
Tickets and showtimes HERE.
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New York Museum of Modern Art: Film Screenings
Mike Nichols retrospective
April 14 – May 1
To view a complete program and buy tickets, click HERE.
Carnal Knowledge
1971. USA. Mike Nichols. 98 min.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Sold out
The Graduate
1967. USA. Mike Nichols. 105 min.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 4:30 p.m.
Carnal Knowledge
1971. USA. Mike Nichols. 98 min.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Primary Colors
1998. USA. Mike Nichols. 143 min.
Thursday, April 16, 2009, 4:30 p.m.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966. USA. Mike Nichols. 131 min.
Saturday, April 18, 2009, 2:00 p.m.
Mike Nichols in Conversation
Saturday, April 18, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
"Join Mike Nichols and a select group of his closest writing and acting collaborators for an intimate and informal conversation in celebration of his MoMA exhibition."
Working Girl
1988. USA. Mike Nichols. 113 min.
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 2:00 p.m.
Catch-22
1970. USA. Mike Nichols. 122 min.
Monday, April 27, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
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