Kaneto Shindo's KURONEKO being released by Janus/Criterion!

[August]

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[August]

[gila-monster]

If this was done by the same director as Onibaba then this is a must see for me. I love that movie.

The trailer is pretty swift, as well:

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[gila-monster]

I think Criterion is just about the only R1 version available.

[jellydonut25]

[August]

Janus Films have the rights to these locked down, so there will be no "other" versions floating out there on R1 — unless they are boots of other foreign releases.

[gila-monster]

Criterion has a little blurb about this up now:

Just waiting for them to announce both a) a Vancouver showing, and b) a DVD release. Looks to be a great film, and would probably go quite nice with Onibaba for a film night. "Dangerous Ladies" theme maybe?

[JimPV]

[August]

The reviews are coming in...

"NYT CRITICS' PICK - Grabs hold of you fast and tight right from start ... As it slides between realism and extreme artifice, using cinematic and theatrical devices, Kuroneko becomes increasingly, pleasurably difficult to predict. It’s alternately abstract and down to earth, recognizable and strange, and consistently surprising." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

"DON'T MISS THIS MASTERPIECE OF JAPANESE CINEMA! A powerful, haunting, and almost unbearably tense film, part ghost story, part Samurai movie, and part revenge melodrama." - New York Magazine "No Halloween slasher flick can match the artistry on display in this 1968 Japanese ghost story ... The beautiful print does justice to the austere black-and-white palette of director Kaneto Shindo, who strips everything down to its poetic essence." - Steve Dollar, The Wall Street Journal

"FOUR STARS - A MUCH DESERVED REVIVAL! Feels remarkably in tune with the last few waves of supernatural J-horror ... This tale of vengeful ghosts will cast a spell on you." - David Fear, Time Out NY

"Nippo-Gothic horror fables have a long tradition of proto-feminist outrage ... Kaneto Shindô’s Kuroneko (1968), finally making its New York premiere, may take the cake." - Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice

"Overflows with evocative and atmospheric imagery ... Kuroneko unfolds like a dream, and at the same time, Shindo infuses the film with a scathing political subtext." - Tony Timpone, Fangoria

Read more rave reviews, here:
http://www.janusfilms.com/kuroneko/reviews.html

KURONEKO plays in San Francisco on Friday, November 26 at the Castro Theatre!
http://www.castrotheatre.com

October 29 - November 4
Boston, MA - Landmark Kendall Square

November 5 - 11
Portland, OR - Cinema 21

November 19 - 25
Los Angeles, CA - Landmark Nuart

November 26
San Francisco, CA - The Castro Theatre

December 3
Rochester, NY - George Eastman House

December 24 - 30
Denver, CO - Denver Film Society

February 25 - March 3
Minneapolis, MN - Landmark Theatres

More dates to be added! Go here for theater listings:
http://www.janusfilms.com/kuroneko/dates.html

[gila-monster]

For those who live in or near Vancouver, Canada, there will be several showings at the end of next week:

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