Live Benshi Performance

Please join us for a rare and exciting evening with a Japanese benshi ("movie talker") by Kataoka Ichiro accompanied on the piano by Makia Matsumura. During Japan's silent film era, benshi artists regularly thrilled audiences with their dramatic and engaging narratives that accompanied film screenings.

To bring this event to BYU, the International Cinema program partnered with the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities at UCLA to organize a benshi tour that starts right here on campus.

You are invited to the screenings of the cult favorite A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeiji, 1926)— and two short films, Liberty (Leo McCarey, 1929), and the rare Japanese animated film, Chongire hebi-- A Snipped Snake (Jun'ichi Kōuchi, 1932, 16 min.)

Upcoming Faculty Lecture

“The Many Shades of Vermiglio”

By Marie Orton

“Professor Marie Orton completed her B.A. degree in Humanities at BYU, and her M.A. and PhD at the University of Chicago in Italian Language and Literature. Before joining the BYU faculty she taught at Duke University, and Truman State University. She completed a Fulbright research grant at the Università di Torino. Her main research areas include migration and multiculturalism in Italy, contemporary Italian literature and film, and the Italian diaspora.

FOLLOWED BY A SCREENING OF
Vermiglio
(Maura Delpero, Italian, 2024, 119 min.)

Lecture @ 5:00 PM

Wednesday, February 18
250 KMBL

Next Week's Showtimes

Blood Wedding (1981)
9:25PM 

International Cinema Podcast

International Cinema Newsletter

Live Benshi Performance

Please join us for a rare and exciting evening with a Japanese benshi ("movie talker") by Kataoka Ichiro accompanied on the piano by Makia Matsumura. During Japan's silent film era, benshi artists regularly thrilled audiences with their dramatic and engaging narratives that accompanied film screenings.

To bring this event to BYU, the International Cinema program partnered with the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities at UCLA to organize a benshi tour that starts right here on campus.

You are invited to the screenings of the cult favorite A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeiji, 1926)— and two short films, Liberty (Leo McCarey, 1929), and the rare Japanese animated film, Chongire hebi-- A Snipped Snake (Jun'ichi Kōuchi, 1932, 16 min.)

“The Many Shades of Vermiglio”

By Marie Orton

“Professor Marie Orton completed her B.A. degree in Humanities at BYU, and her M.A. and PhD at the University of Chicago in Italian Language and Literature. Before joining the BYU faculty she taught at Duke University, and Truman State University. She completed a Fulbright research grant at the Università di Torino. Her main research areas include migration and multiculturalism in Italy, contemporary Italian literature and film, and the Italian diaspora.

Blood Wedding (1981)
9:25PM