![]() ![]() Known as a founder of the group Yellow Magic Orchestra, Sakamoto went on to win an Oscar for his score to Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1987 “The Last Emperor.” The tribute will open with Jun Ichikawa’s 2004 short “Tony Takitani” and John Maybury’s 1998 feature “Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon,” both of which Sakamoto scored. ![]() Ryuichi Sakamoto remembered The UCLA Film and Television Archive hosts a weekend-long salute to musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died in April at age 71. For those unfamiliar with Nuñez, I envy you having this incredible introduction to such a singular artist.” This retrospective is a wonderful opportunity to revisit his work. ![]() As Field wrote in a program note, “His work displays a remarkable consistency, an unadorned vision of an America viewed at eye-level, dispensing with any and all cinematic safety nets. Other films screening in the series include “Ruby in Paradise,” a Sundance grand prize winner “Ulee’s Gold,” for which Peter Fonda earned an Oscar nomination and “A Flash of Green.” On Sunday there will be a panel discussion with actors Singer, Ed Harris, Ashley Judd and Todd Field.įield, Judd, Singer and Nuñez will be making appearances at screenings throughout the series, with the actors displaying a real dedication to the filmmaker’s work, the type of emotionally resonant, low-key naturalism that doesn’t really have a place in contemporary film culture. Victor Nuñez tribute The American Cinematheque is celebrating filmmaker Victor Nuñez this weekend, including the local premiere of his latest film, “Rachel Hendrix,” a portrait of grief and rebirth starring Lori Singer. ![]() Go to this one-week run and find your tribe with all the people who know “Contempt” is the Godard joint that hits hardest. And to watch a cameoing Fritz Lang take a dignified stroll along a Cinecittà back street - a man out of time, out of place - is to know the movie’s key theme is loneliness. Georges Delerue’s seesawing orchestral score is a soundtrack of sad obsession (even Scorsese copped it for “Casino”). Writing about the film in 1997, Kenneth Turan called it a “meditation on the crumbling of two kinds of passion, one romantic, the other cinematic.” He noted, “Melancholy and sensual, ‘Contempt’ is the one Godard film it’s impossible to mistake for any other, and the director, perhaps sensing this, puckishly cast himself as Lang’s officious assistant director.” (Lang plays himself.) While in Italy, Paul and his wife, Camille (Brigitte Bardot), find their relationship pushed to a breaking point. Intertwining the personal and professional, “Contempt” follows a writer, Paul (Michel Piccoli), summoned to Rome to assist a crass American film producer (Jack Palance) with work on a Fritz Lang film. The movie is hailed as one of the true masterworks in the groundbreaking career of Godard, who died last year at age 91. “Contempt” at 60 The recent 4K restoration of Jean-Godard’s “Contempt” opens in Los Angeles today at the Laemmle Royal in celebration of the film’s anniversary. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. ![]()
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