CONTOURS
CONTOURS is a monthly screening series at Paradise Theatre spotlighting films which thematize the world of visual art:painting, sculpture, sketching, and performance. Each feature is preceded by a short film and an introduction by curator and host Saffron Maeve. Maeve also writes an accompanying column for Screen Slate, which covers art films playing in New York.
Utamaro and His Five Women
- Sun, Dec 7
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi Run Time: 94 min. Release Year: 1946 Language: Japanese
Starring: Bandō Mitsugorō VIII, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kōtarō Bandō, Hiroko Kawasaki, Toshiko Iizuka
Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his...
