2024:
April 2024: Guest talk, Miami University of Ohio
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March 2024: Guest talk, Clemson University, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies/World Cinema
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2022-23:
February 2023: Guest lecturer, Georgetown University, Portuguese Studies, about Manoel de Oliveira (Strange Case of Angelica)
Reader, Comparative Cinema: Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert.
Review for Somatechnics (Edinburgh University Press)
Interview with Kore-eda Hirokazu (translation by Kishi Yoshiko and Linda Ehrlich) in Hirokazu Kore-eda Interviews (ed. Sidney Gottlieb, University Press of Mississippi, 2022). Conversations with Filmmakers Series. (forthcoming)
“A Fine Balance: Teshigahara Hiroshi’s Rikyū,” in The Quest for a New Cinema: Theorizing Teshigahara’s Authorship,” ed. Lorenzo Torres and Marcos Centeno, Edinburgh University Press (Refocus: The International Directors Series, forthcoming).
“The Bold Kinoshita, The Tender Kinoshita: Close-ups and Long Shots,” in Times of Joy and Sorrow: The Cinema of Kinoshita Keisuke edited by David Desser and Earl Jackson (forthcoming)
2021:
“Relative Truths: The Truth and Invented Memories,” in Senses of Cinema 99, July 2021 (online)
Full-length commentary on new Criterion DVD of After Life (dir. Kore-eda)
Audio-Interview about THE FILMS OF KORE-EDA HIROKAZU on NEW BOOKS NETWORK (January 2021, with Takeshi Morisato, editor of the European Journal of Japanese Philosophy) Scroll to bottom of link to listen to the audio clip
Duke University Modern Japanese History class, Spring 2021:
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2020:
Guest speaker, University of Pittsburgh Kore-eda film series, November 4, 7 p.m. (via Zoom).
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ALSO SEPT-OCT. 2021: “Poetry Across Borders”: A 4-session class on Non-Western Poetic Forms, on Tuesdays in October, for the Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South (RCWMS, Durham). 2-3 p.m.
Volunteer, Duke Reading Project (Playwriting).
Volunteer, CARACEN (Central American Resource Center). Translation of documents for immigrants, from Spanish to English
Published by Stone Bridge Press (Berkeley): New edited anthology of writings: YAMAMBA: In Search of the Japanese Mountain Witch, edited by Rebecca Copeland (Washington University) and Linda Ehrlich. With chapters by David Holloway, Laura Miller, MIZUTA Noriko, Ann Sherif, YOKOSHI Yasuko, Copeland, Ehrlich, and a reprint of Ōba Minako’s influential short story “The Smile of Yamamba.” Drawings by Maria Alilovic and others. Introduction by Noriko Reider.
Essay on the film TOKYO OLYMPIAD (and other Olympics films) has appeared in the film journal CINEMA SCOPE (“Moving Toward and Away from Horror: 100 Years of Olympic Films, 1912-2012,” CinemaSoope 84 (2020): 36-41.
Keynote speaker and film curator, Phoenix Fire symposium and film series, San Antonio, Texas (March 15-16). An intercultural work for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (postponed due to the Cover-19 outbreak)https://www.uiw.edu/chass/academic-programs/music/phoenix-fire.html
POETRY READING, at Books and Books (Suniland/Miami), Weds., March 11 6:30 p.m.
2019:
New essay in: Trasvases entre literatura y cine. Universidad de Málaga, España. Nº 1 (December 2019)
Two poems published in The 64 Best Poets of 2018 (Black Mountain Press, Asheville, NC): “Murder of Darkness” and “Awakened by Buñuel”
2018:
(book review) in FILM QUARTERLY of TANAKA KINUYO: NATION, STARDOM, AND FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY. Ed Irene González-López and Michael Smith (Edinburgh UP, 2018)
Past Events:
Introductions of 4 films by Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu, Webster University, St. Louis, Mo. September 19-22
https://events.webster.edu/event/maborosi#.XVtFky2ZNyk
https://events.webster.edu/event/after_life#.XVtGaS2ZNyk
https://events.webster.edu/event/distance#.XVtGqC2ZNyk
https://events.webster.edu/event/nobody_knows#.XVtGzi2ZNyk
*Monday, March 25, at 6:45 pm, Cleveland Cinematheque (announcement) A Special Event!
Linda Ehrlich presents: SHOPLIFTERS (MANBIKI KAZOKUJapan, 2018, Hirokazu Kore-eda
CWRU professor emerita Linda Ehrlich is one of the foremost authorities on contemporary Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda. She has interviewed him twice, provided the full-length commentary for Milestone Film and Video’s 25th-anniversary Blu-ray/DVD release of his 1995 debut film Maborosi, and is finishing a book on the director. Tonight Linda returns to Cleveland to introduce and answer questions after a screening of Kore-eda’s latest (and perhaps most acclaimed) feature, winner of the top prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and a 2019 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. Shoplifters is a touching, humanistic tale of a three-generation family of thieves—a crime movie full of charm, humor, suspense, and surprises. Subtitles. DCP. 121 min. Special event pricing $12; members, CIA/CSU/CWRU I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $9. No passes, twofers, or radio winners. Screening co-sponsored by the Japanese section of in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, CWRU. Special thanks to Yuki Togawa.
FILM INTRODUCTIONS
Introduction of 2 classical Japanese films, Late Spring and Ugetsu at the Cinematheque Ontario/Toronto in July (2018).
Friday July 13, 6:30 pm Ugetsu |
Saturday, July 14, 3:20 pm Late Spring |
ENO MAGAZINE (Duke University Environmental Education poetry/art journal):
POETRY AWARDS
My poem “For Zarganar,” has won honorable mention in the NC Poetry Society “Poetry of Courage” contest judged by Heather Bowlan. Heather Bowlan is a writer and editor living in Philadelphia. Her poetry has been published in New Ohio Review, Interim, Nashville Review, and elsewhere. Heather has served on the editorial staff of BOAAT and Raleigh Review, is a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Award, and has received fellowships and grants from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center.
My poem “Third Ring,” has won 3rd Prize in the N.C. Poetry Society “Hayman/Love Poetry” contest judged by Erin Rose Coffin. Erin Rose Coffin holds a Masters of Fine Arts in poetry from North Carolina State University. Her work has appeared in Raleigh Review and Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands, and she is an editorial assistant for So and So Magazine. She was a finalist in the North Carolina State Poetry Contest, judged by Yusef Komunyakaa. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband
“Reflecting Through Images: The Documentaries of Mercedes Álvarez,” in Ulfsdotter, Boel, ed. FEMALE AUTHORSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTARY MEDIA (University of Gothenburg, Sweden). Edinburgh University Press, 2018, pp. 184-193.
INTRODUCTIONS OF JAPANESE FILMS: Cary Theatre (Cary, NC), Varsity Theatre (Raleigh, NC), UNC/Chapel Hill, North Carolina Museum of Art, RiverRun Film Festival (Winston-Salem), FilmFest919 (Chapel Hill, NC)
GUEST SPEAKER: Pickford Film Center (Bellingham, Washington) and Western Washington University.
REQUESTED ESSAY in:
José Carlos Teixeira . On Exile (2018)
by Stolen Books (publishing label from Lisbon)
Supported by MAAT (Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia, Lisbon), UW-Madison.
with contributions by:
Linda Ehrlich
Ana Anacleto
João Pinharanda
Steven Henry Madoff
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
Maria Inigo Clavo