Farewell to Manzanar—DVD apresenta o cinema para uma nova geração
Em 1976, o filme para TV Farewell to Manzanar , baseado no livro de Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, foi transmitido pela NBC. Raramente visto desde então, o filme está sendo disponibilizado em DVD pelo Museu Nacional Japonês Americano.
Esta série de três partes analisa a importância do filme quando foi feito em 1976 e agora, 35 anos depois; e como e porquê o Museu optou por assumir este projeto.
A Parte 1 é sobre como foi a luta para lançá-lo em DVD e inclui citações da autora Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston e da equipe do JANM. A Parte 2 é uma entrevista com o diretor John Korty sobre por que ele escolheu trabalhar no projeto, as decisões que tomou ao usar principalmente nipo-americanos no elenco e muitos membros da equipe, e seus pensamentos sobre o legado do filme. A Parte 3 se concentrará no impacto que o filme teve em seus atores.
Stories from this series
The Actors’ Perspective
16 de Janeiro de 2012 • Esther Newman
Farewell to Manzanar, adapted from the memoir that Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston penned with her husband, James D. Houston, tells the story of the injustice suffered by 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II by focusing on a single family, the Wakatsukis, as seen through the eyes of seven year old Jeanne. It was directed by Oscar and Emmy award winning director, John Korty, and featured an almost entirely Japanese American cast and crew. Farewell to Manzanar had a profound impact …
An interview with John Korty, director of “Farewell To Manzanar”
19 de Outubro de 2011 • Esther Newman
“I was always out to change the world...”John Korty’s remarkable success in the film industry—an Oscar and two Emmys among numerous film awards—doesn’t mean he’s “gone Hollywood.” The director of Farewell to Manzanar has consistently chosen projects focused on themes of social justice from very early in his career. Anti-war activism, racism, the civil rights movement, and adoption of special needs children are just some of the issues Korty’s examined in film. Farewell to Manzanar, adapted from the novel …
Timeless and Timely
7 de Outubro de 2011 • Esther Newman
Nearly seventy years have passed since the first busload of Japanese Americans arrived at Manzanar, forced from their coastal California homes to spend the duration of World War II behind barbed wire and beneath the gaze of armed soldiers perched in perimeter guard towers. The incarceration of 120,000 American citizens and residents based solely on their Japanese ancestry is a painful chapter in U.S. history. Even now, it’s a subject about which many don’t know, others don’t want to know, …
