“Godzilla in New York” Program Final Event
May 2, 2005
“Godzilla in New York” Program Final Event
Special Screening of Gojira (1954) in its original, uncut version
Japanese with English subtitles
Roone Arledge Auditorium, Lerner Hall (115th St. and Broadway)
Please use the campus-side entrance, at the northeast corner of the building
8 PM
RSVP BY APRIL 27 FOR COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS
Raymond Burr begone! Before its fifteth-anniversary release last year, Godzilla’s original film appearance had remained unseen by most Americans. It was instead the thoroughly recrafted Hollywood version of 1956, titled Godzilla, King of the Monsters, that generations had grown up with and learned to love in its own hokey way. Beneath the self-posturing of Raymond Burr lies a somberer film, one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century cinema. Director Honda Ishirô’s original vision powerfully conveys the realities and the nightmares of a nation that had been leveled by atomic and aerial bombing less than a decade previously, and that continued to witness ever more deadly nuclear-weapons testing off its own shores. The Donald Keene Center, in cooperation with Rialto Pictures, is proud to present the complete and unedited 1954 version of Gojira.
Co-sponsored by The Weatherhead East Asian Institute
