Show 1 – Webcast recorded on January 29, 2022 (57:24 TRT)
Chapter Cinema Club Chair Gerard Elmore talks with writer / director Christopher Makoto Yogi about his feature film, «I Was A Simple Man» (shot in Hawai’i). Actor Kyle Kosaki from the film joins the conversation
They discuss the Sundance Film Festival experience: workshopping the film at Sundance labs; premiering the film at the 2021 Sundance festival; and what it took to produce the film.
The film was named the fourth Best Film of 2021 in the New Yorker Magazine, where film critic Richard Brody called it «one of the great films about death.» Roxana Hadadi wrote in rogerebert.com that the film is a «100-minute spell of beauty and melancholy, intimate and grand in equal measure» while David Ehrlich in IndieWire called it «masterful» and named it a Critics Pick.
“I Was a Simple Man” is now streaming:
Apple TV (https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/i-was-a-simple-man/umc.cmc.1kuriylnnb88za55hz9ceh8um?action=play)
Amazon Prime (https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.b57eed50-beeb-4d4a-ac6f-951a07306a91?autoplay=1&ref_=atv_cf_strg_wb)
Film Trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1ISpED1kQg
Movie Review – https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/i-was-a-simple-man-movie-review-2021
A NATAS SF NorCal first, Cinema Club vérité will continue to benefit Chapter members with illuminating and educational interviews with filmmakers.
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