The newly re-branded Kyoto International Film and Art Festival has introduced a lineup that focuses on older works, particularly from the city's film-making past, as much as it does on newer titles. With the introduction of the Mifune Toshiro Award, and his son Shiro in attendance and sitting on the jury, a couple of the great actor's classics will be shown, along with works from Clint Eastwood and Irene Jacobs, recipients of the clunkily titled new 'Most Respect' Award. Sections are dedicated to Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle, and Japanese classic comedy director Torajiro Saito, along with a rare screening of Kyoto based b-movie Daimaijin. Really, the old stuff threatens to outshine the new. Of the later works the excellent Fuku-chan of Fukufuku Flats (read the review here),...
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- 9/5/2014
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