Teinosuke Kinugasa's A page of madness ; Henwar Rodakiewicz's Portrait of a young man
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✎ Suggest a correctionAn elderly man works at odd jobs in the lunatic asylum in hopes to set his wife free who is confined there after having attempted to drown her baby son in a fit of madness many years ago. | An experimental film chiefly featuring nature scenes that attempts to capture movement with a structure similar to a musical symphony.
Credits
- Cast
- Page of madness: Masao Inoue, Yoshie Nakagawa, Ayako Iijima, Hiroshi Nemoto; Alloy Orchestra, composer (expression) (instrumentalist); Kinugasa, Teinosuke, 1896-1982, film director (film producer); Henwar Rodakiewicz (filmmaker); Yasunari Kawabata (screenwriter); Kōhei Sugiyama (director of photography); Umeko Numazaki (editor of moving image work); Rosenberg, Judith, 1946- composer (expression) (instrumentalist); Masuo Inoue (actor); Yoshie Nakagawa (actor); Ayako Iijima (actor); Nemoto, Hiroshi (Actor) (actor)
Complete catalog record
Alternate title: Page of madness ; Portrait of a young man | Henwar Rodakiewicz's Portrait of a young man | Portrait of a young man | Container of (work): Kurutta ichipeiji (Motion picture) | Container of (work): Portrait of a young man (Motion picture) | Portrait of a young man in three movements.
Original source: Title from disc label. | A page of madness originally released in 1926; Portrait of an young man originally released in 1931. | Page of madness scanned from a 16mm print, with a new score by the Alloy Orchestra. | Portrait of a young man scanned from a 16mm source and remastered for Blu-ray with a new piano score by Judith Rosenberg. | Portrait of a young man also known as A portrait of a young man in three movements. | "Portrait of a young man was filmed sporadically over the span of six years (1925-1931) in Bermuda, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and British Columbia"--Container | Bonus materials: a 1989 episode of the television program Cinema then, cinema now (discussion on A page of madness with psychoanalyst Dr. Harvey Roy Greenberg and film historian Joseph Anderson). Online essays: A page of madness: understanding a work in its time / Aaron Gerow; On viewing Portrait of a young man / Bruce Posner (available at www.flickeralley.com/mod/critical-essays/) | Page of madness: Director, producer, Teinosuke Kinugasa; original story, Yasunari Kawabata; cinematography, Kohei Sugiyama; editor, Umeko Numazaki; art direction, Kasaku Hayashi, Chiyo Ozaki; music, Alloy Orchestra; production companies, Kinugasa Productions, Shin Kankaku-ha eiga Renmei, National Film Art. | Portrait of a young man: director, producer, photography, Henwar Rodakiewicz ; composer, Judith Rosenberg.
Release: [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Flicker Alley, [2017]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. | 4 3/4 in. black and white | burning | monochrome | NTSC | video file | Blu-ray | all regions
Edition: Blu-ray MOD edition. | BR MOD edition.
Contents: Contents: Kurutta ippeiji = A page of madness / Shin Kankaku-ha Eiga Renmei Productions ; produced by National Film Art ; produced by Teinosuke Kinugasa ; director, Teinosuke Kinugasa ; original story, Yasunari Kawabata (Japan, 1926; 71 min.) -- Portrait of a young man : in three movements / by Henwar Rodakiewicz (United States, 1925-31; 53 min.).
Subjects: Mentally ill -- Family relationships -- Drama | Mental health facilities -- Drama | Spouses -- Japan -- Drama | Mental health facilities | Mentally ill -- Family relationships | Movement sequences | Spouses | Japan
Country: Japan | United States
Language note: A page of madness Silent film with new added musical accompaniment. | Portrait of a young man Silent film with English intertitles and new added musical accompaniment.
Ucla location: Instructional Media Library Stacks DVD | ID21924
Original source: Title from disc label. | A page of madness originally released in 1926; Portrait of an young man originally released in 1931. | Page of madness scanned from a 16mm print, with a new score by the Alloy Orchestra. | Portrait of a young man scanned from a 16mm source and remastered for Blu-ray with a new piano score by Judith Rosenberg. | Portrait of a young man also known as A portrait of a young man in three movements. | "Portrait of a young man was filmed sporadically over the span of six years (1925-1931) in Bermuda, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and British Columbia"--Container | Bonus materials: a 1989 episode of the television program Cinema then, cinema now (discussion on A page of madness with psychoanalyst Dr. Harvey Roy Greenberg and film historian Joseph Anderson). Online essays: A page of madness: understanding a work in its time / Aaron Gerow; On viewing Portrait of a young man / Bruce Posner (available at www.flickeralley.com/mod/critical-essays/) | Page of madness: Director, producer, Teinosuke Kinugasa; original story, Yasunari Kawabata; cinematography, Kohei Sugiyama; editor, Umeko Numazaki; art direction, Kasaku Hayashi, Chiyo Ozaki; music, Alloy Orchestra; production companies, Kinugasa Productions, Shin Kankaku-ha eiga Renmei, National Film Art. | Portrait of a young man: director, producer, photography, Henwar Rodakiewicz ; composer, Judith Rosenberg.
Release: [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Flicker Alley, [2017]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. | 4 3/4 in. black and white | burning | monochrome | NTSC | video file | Blu-ray | all regions
Edition: Blu-ray MOD edition. | BR MOD edition.
Contents: Contents: Kurutta ippeiji = A page of madness / Shin Kankaku-ha Eiga Renmei Productions ; produced by National Film Art ; produced by Teinosuke Kinugasa ; director, Teinosuke Kinugasa ; original story, Yasunari Kawabata (Japan, 1926; 71 min.) -- Portrait of a young man : in three movements / by Henwar Rodakiewicz (United States, 1925-31; 53 min.).
Subjects: Mentally ill -- Family relationships -- Drama | Mental health facilities -- Drama | Spouses -- Japan -- Drama | Mental health facilities | Mentally ill -- Family relationships | Movement sequences | Spouses | Japan
Country: Japan | United States
Language note: A page of madness Silent film with new added musical accompaniment. | Portrait of a young man Silent film with English intertitles and new added musical accompaniment.
Ucla location: Instructional Media Library Stacks DVD | ID21924
Sources
- UCLA Library Catalog · record ↗ — title, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record
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