The Films of Hirokazu Kore-eda

PAST EVENTS

	Repertory, Cinema Q&As Still Walking (Aruitemo Aruitemo) Q&A with Hirokazu Kore-eda Fri, Aug 21 at 7pm BAM Rose Cinemas
	Repertory, Cinema Q&As Nobody Knows (Dare Mo Shiranai) Q&A with Hirokazu Kore-eda following 6pm screening Sat, Aug 22 at 3, 6, 9:30pm BAM Rose Cinemas
	Repertory Distance Sun, Aug 23 at 3, 6, 9pm BAM Rose Cinemas
	Repertory Hana (Hana Yori Mo Naho) Mon, Aug 24 at 6:50, 9:30pm BAM Rose Cinemas
	Repertory Maborosi (Maboroshi No Hikari) Tue, Aug 25 at 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm BAM Rose Cinemas

SERIES DESCRIPTION

“I’m interested in the emotions that arise from the collision between so-called real life and the artifice of film.”—Hirokazu Kore-eda

Hirokazu Kore-eda has built an astounding body of fictional work by meshing the sensitive approach of his early documentaries to his narratives, imbuing them with a humanism unsurpassed in modern cinema. His lyrical films offer profound explorations of memory and loss with an observational style devoid of sentimentality. BAMcinématek is proud to present the director’s first New York retrospective, including rare television work. All films in Japanese with English subtitles.

RELATED LINKS

The New York Times on BAM's series The Films of Hirokazu Kore-eda
"Mr. Kore-eda, who studied literature at Waseda University in Tokyo, began his career making documentaries for Japanese television. Some of these rarely screened films will be shown at a retrospective devoted to Mr. Kore-eda, the first in New York, that runs from Friday through Sept. 1 at BAMcinématek in Brooklyn. The themes of his fiction films — loss, remembrance, resilience — and his signature empathetic approach to traumatized characters can be detected in much of his early nonfiction work." More

August BAMcinematek flyer on The Films of Hirokazu Kore-eda
"Preferring the staying power of evocation to the immediacy of provocation, Kore-eda’s is a cinema that lingers, one that surprises well after the credits have rolled." More

Interview with Hirokazu Kore-eda on GreenCine Daily
"Hirokazu Kore-eda is the only major Japanese director of his generation who is a direct descendant of his cinematic forefathers' humanism." More