Yasujiro Ozu's TOKYO TWILIGHT

50th Anniversary Screening

 

 

 

Saturday

October 6, 2007

7:30 pm

Bing Theater

LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF ART

5905 Wilshire Boulevard

 

Two years after his internationally-acclaimed Tokyo Story, Yasujiro Ozu tells the parallel stories of two adult sisters-one of whom is coping with an unwanted pregnancy, the other with marital discord-who have moved in with their aging father.

 

The sudden appearance of their mother, long assumed dead, plunges the family into crisis. Ozu's last film in black-and-white, in a career that stretches back to the silent era, is an atypically unforgiving view of human nature; its melodramatic plot and scenes of heart wrenching domestic strife and disintegration set against the bleakness of winter and the communal solitude of city life. 

 

"It seems redundant to add 'the great' before Ozu's name; this Japanese master has long since ascended to that place in the cinematic firmament where adjectives are no longer applied to names, and names become adjectives." - Dave Kehr, The New York Times

 

1957/b&w/141 min. Scr: Kôgo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu; dir: Ozu; w/ Setsuko Hara, Isuzu Yamada, Ineko Arima, Chishu Ryu

 

TICKETS/INFORMATION

 

Tickets are $9; $6 for LACMA members, seniors (62+), and students with valid ID. Tickets are on sale now and may be purchased at the museum box office. For information, call the box office at 323 857-6010. Purchase of film tickets includes entrance to the galleries. All foreign-language films are subtitled in English. Please check www.lacma.org for additional screenings.