https://staging2.theplaylist.net/venice-review-kiyoshi-kurosawas-penance-is-an-absorbing-4-12-hour-drama-that-falters-at-its-ending-20120828/ Fri, 13 May 2016 11:39:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/venice-review-kiyoshi-kurosawas-penance-is-an-absorbing-4-12-hour-drama-that-falters-at-its-ending-20120828/#comment-70287 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:39:54 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/venice-review-kiyoshi-kurosawas-penance-is-an-absorbing-4-12-hour-drama-that-falters-at-its-ending-106629/#comment-70287 This is hardly a new turn for Kurosawa, as he's done a good amount of TV work dating all the way back to the early '90s — mostly episodes of anthology series, but also a miniseries (1992's "Watanabe," a sci-fi/comedy manga adaptation) and a TV movie ("Seance," which was blown up to 35mm and

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/venice-review-kiyoshi-kurosawas-penance-is-an-absorbing-4-12-hour-drama-that-falters-at-its-ending-20120828/#comment-70288 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:39:54 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/venice-review-kiyoshi-kurosawas-penance-is-an-absorbing-4-12-hour-drama-that-falters-at-its-ending-106629/#comment-70288 "For all the talk of auteurs working on the small screen and helping to usher in a new golden age of television – Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann etc. – it’s hardly a phenomenon only made up of HBO’s current output. Ingmar Bergman and Rainer Werner Fassbinder both turned to television in the 1980s…" There's an incredibly crucial difference you're eliding here: what Scorsese and Mann (with Luck) and other are doing at HBO and AMC is manufacturing plot, something which is potentially endless, while Fassbinder and Bergman were making long form movies. BB, Boardwalk Empire, Luck , they are all arbitrarily fit to 45min-1hr per episode lengths, 10 episodes (or whatever) per season, producing plot based on a set of characters. That isn't cinema, it's not cinematic, it's people watching. Ontologically, it's no different from watching The Real Housewives – MM and BB just seem different because they look slick, are faux-serious and faux-intelligent. Fassbinder and Bergman were making long form cinema — miniseries, if you prefer that — with concrete beginnings and endings, that went to TV because they were not theatrically distributable at such lengths (at least not without trimming — and that was done, of course). What Kurosawa has done here sounds like it fits somewhere in the middle

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/venice-review-kiyoshi-kurosawas-penance-is-an-absorbing-4-12-hour-drama-that-falters-at-its-ending-20120828/#comment-70289 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:39:54 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/venice-review-kiyoshi-kurosawas-penance-is-an-absorbing-4-12-hour-drama-that-falters-at-its-ending-106629/#comment-70289 Thank you so much for the coverage Oliver, really looking forward to see this in a way or another. I wonder how it will be released intentionally though.

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