Movie Screening: Action, Anarchy and Audacity: A Seijun Suzuki Retrospective

Start
Friday, February 05, 2016
End
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Location
The Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood Village (Los Angeles, CA)

Friday, February 5, 2016 - Sunday, March 13, 2016

Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood Village
10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024

In a career spanning nearly five decades, director Seijun Suzuki amassed a body of work ranging from B-movie potboilers to beguiling metaphysical mysteries. Suzuki first became famous when he was fired by Nikkatsu Studios in 1967 for making films that, as he put it, “made no sense and made no money.” But it was his freewheeling approach and audacious experimentation in films such as Branded to Kill (1967) and Tokyo Drifter (1966) that gained Suzuki a cult following in Japan and abroad. In the mid-1960s, with dozens of B-movie assignments under his belt, Suzuki channeled his restlessness—and that of his regular collaborators, art director Takeo Kimura and cinematographers Shigeyoshi Mine and Kazue Nagatsuka—towards injecting deliriously disruptive stylistic innovations into studio assigned stories of battling yakuza, corrupt cops and wild youth.

The series pays tribute to the influential body of work by Japanese director, Seijun Suzuki. Suzuki devotees include directors Jim Jarmusch and Quentin Tarantino who praised Suzuki in the press and quoted his work in their films.

Titles to be screened include: Branded to Kill (1967), Tokyo Drifter (1966), and Zigeunerweisen (1980).

Full program details can be found at the UCLA Film & Television Archive website

TICKETS
Advance tickets are available online for $10.

Tickets are also available at the Billy Wilder Theater box office beginning one hour before showtime: $9, general admission; FREE to all UCLA students with valid ID; $8, other students, seniors and UCLA Alumni Association members with ID.

PARKING
At the Billy Wilder Theater for a $3 flat rate on weekdays after 6 p.m. and all day on Saturdays and Sundays. Enter from Westwood Blvd., just north of Wilshire.

INFO | PROGRAM UPDATES
cinema.ucla.edu | 310-206-FILM (-3456)

Presented by UCLA Film & Television Archive; the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution; Japan Foundation; and UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies

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