Author Archives: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

TriBeCaStan (Folklorkestra) – they took folk melodies from around the world and improvised on them!

John Kruth & Jeff Greene (photo by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi)

TriBeCastan's John Kruth & Jeff Greene (photo by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi)

Rock Paper Scissors, Inc. and the oligarchy of TriBeCaStan hosted a reception for APAP presenters and booking agents and DBDBD were invited. The TriBeCaStani cultural attaché made available his personal 5 Star Cave for the event and served a lavish spread of complimentary food and drink. This was one of those once in a lifetime events where the locale, vibe, and company are just right. Displaying the indigenous cultural splendor of TriBeCaStan was the TriBeCaStani Folklorkestra.

When: January 8, 2010/ 5:30 – 7:30+

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Film – Akira Kurosawa Centennial at Film Forum!

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Akira Kurosawa portraitAhead of Akira Kurosawa‘s centenary on March 23, Film Forum more or less runs through the auteur’s consummate filmography (on queue: Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo) in six action-packed weeks. Two masterpieces also bracket this domo-arigato series: Stray Dog, an early, naturalistic film about a detective and the search for his missing gun in postwar Tokyo, and Ran, Kurosawa’s superlative, late-career translation of King Lear to the feudal East and its tragic, color-specific daimyos. The former stars Toshiro Mifune and the latter Tatsuya Nakadai, two Japanese icons who reappear throughout a canon that incorporates everything from pulp to Noh theatre, Shakespearean tragedy to the almighty Bushido code.

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