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FACETS NIGHT SCHOOL: SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT
An off-shoot of Facets' long-running, popular film school program, Facets Night School digs into cinema's wild side with special Saturday night midnight lectures on cult favorites led by Facets' expert staff, followed by screenings of the films and post-screening discussions. It's a schooling in Midnight Movies that you won't find anywhere else!
Horror greats, sci-fi wonders, action and kung-fu whirlwinds, exploitation favorites, classic and contemporary oddities, black comedies, rock 'n' roll docs, crazy animation and much more all go under the microscope at the hands of Facets' movie obsessives!
August 28, 2010
The Cursed Bird ensemble rips into:A Page of Madness
Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926"A synopsis of the plot can't begin to explain the power of the film, nor the audacity of its vision"
-Midnight Eye
"[A] mind-boggling silent masterpiece... the rhythmic pulsation of graphic, semiabstract depictions of madness makes the film both startling and mesmerizing"
-Chicago Reader
Facets Night School is proud to present the 1926 Japanese silent film, A Page of Madness, with musical accompaniment by Cursed Bird (featuring current and former members of Del Rey, Head of Femur and more).
"This virtuoso Japanese silent film, made in 1926, was re-released in 1973. It uses no title-boards, so the story is uninterrupted — an unusual technique in the silent era. Indeed, except for the absence of dialogue, reviewers agree that this classic movie has a very modern look and "feel." The Seaman (Masao Inoue) works as a volunteer at the mental institution where his wife (Yoshie Nakagawa) is locked up. She was placed there after she had some sort of fit and tried to drown their infant son. The story of their family life, and of this incident, is told in flashbacks. He hopes that by working at the institute, he will have some opportunity to reawaken her to the present and take her away." —All Movie Guide
The Cursed Bird ensemble will draw on a vocabulary of noise, psychedelia, free improvisation, proto-metal, and acid rock to score the film's onslaught of surrealistic imagery and psychological fragility.
Cursed Bird are:
Bruce Neal: lead guitar, raga guitar, wooden guitar, toy piano, and voice.
Chris Cowgill (Del Rey, Peralta): bass and voice.
Ben Pegram: electric guitar.
Matt Silcock (Opium Taylor, Lullaby For The Working Class, MCMS, Head of Femur):
acoustic 12-string guitar.
Adam Wolak: drums.
"This virtuoso Japanese silent film, made in 1926, was re-released in 1973. It uses no title-boards, so the story is uninterrupted — an unusual technique in the silent era. Indeed, except for the absence of dialogue, reviewers agree that this classic movie has a very modern look and "feel." The Seaman (Masao Inoue) works as a volunteer at the mental institution where his wife (Yoshie Nakagawa) is locked up. She was placed there after she had some sort of fit and tried to drown their infant son. The story of their family life, and of this incident, is told in flashbacks. He hopes that by working at the institute, he will have some opportunity to reawaken her to the present and take her away." —All Movie Guide
The Cursed Bird ensemble will draw on a vocabulary of noise, psychedelia, free improvisation, proto-metal, and acid rock to score the film's onslaught of surrealistic imagery and psychological fragility.
Cursed Bird are:
Bruce Neal: lead guitar, raga guitar, wooden guitar, toy piano, and voice.
Chris Cowgill (Del Rey, Peralta): bass and voice.
Ben Pegram: electric guitar.
Matt Silcock (Opium Taylor, Lullaby For The Working Class, MCMS, Head of Femur):
acoustic 12-string guitar.
Adam Wolak: drums.
Midnight Eye Chicago Reader
For all inquiries about Facets Night School, email nightschool@facets.org.
