The Moving Image Source Calendar is a selective international guide to retrospectives, screenings, festivals, and exhibitions.
Descriptions are drawn from the calendars of the presenting venues.
-
Takeshi Kitano, the Iconoclast
March 11–June 26, 2010 at
Centre Pompidou
, Paris
Takeshi Kitano started as a stand-up comedian, became a politically incorrect TV personality, a film and a TV actor. He is also an intuitive and genius filmmaker who directed sober gangster films (Sonatine, Hana-bi), an adolescent romance (A Scene At the Sea), a comedy obsessed with sex (Getting Any?), a melodramatic tale (Dolls), a sword film (Zatôichi), self-mocking comedies (Kikujirô no natsu, Takeshis'). He is also a painter, novelist, editor, and singer. His double signature, "Beat Takeshi" for TV and comedy and "Takeshi Kitano" for film and serious creation, is not enough to organize his multiple identities. He is the only artist who pushes the limits of experimenting contraries so far and who puts so relentlessly his creation, his image, and his sanity on the line.
Featured Works:
Along with the exhibition "Beat Takeshi Kitano, Gosse de peintre" that the artist conceived for the Fondation Cartier, the Centre Pompidou will screen 40 feature films, films made for TV, and documents: the most complete retrospective to date on Kitano as a director and actor, in his presence.
Program information:
