Close Criterion collaborator and friend James Quandt, longtime senior programmer at the Cinematheque Ontario and whose theatrical traveling retrospectives are always major events in the film world, is in the spotlight this week in a new, far-reaching conversation with Evening Class’s Michael Guillén. The two talk primarily about Nagisa Oshima (the subject of Quandt’s awesome series In the Realm of Oshima, now playing at the Pacific Film Archive), including the homoerotic elements in his work, his stint as a talk show host in Japan, and his unproduced project Hollywood Zen (about the relationship between Sessue Hayakawa and Rudolph Valentino—now that’s something we would have loved to see). Guillén also gives Quandt the space to expound on various other topics, from the current state of cinephilia to the difficulty of putting on a complete retro to his disastrous projection of . . . Love Story.
1976
102 min
Color
1.66:1
1978
105 min
Color
1.66:1
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