521. RASHOMON and THE OUTRAGE

Peter Josyph

This two-part series explores the difficulty of finding the truth in conflicting narrative voices when faults in memory and deliberate deceptions frame how we hear events. Week 1 features Akira Kurosawa's 1950 masterpiece Rashomon starring Toshiro Mifune as a bandit whose behavior toward a soldier and his wife is told from multiple perspectives. In Week 2, Martin Ritt's The Outrage from 1962 sets the story in the American West with Paul Newman as the bandit, Laurence Harvey as the soldier, and Claire Bloom as his wife. It also stars William Shatner, Edward G. Robinson, and Howard Da Silva. Lively—and conflicting—discussions will follow each film. English subtitles for Rashomon.

Join us at the special tuition rate below for these two important films!

1:00 – 3:30 p.m.

2 Sessions: Thursday, January 8 and January 22

(No Class on January 15 due to Museum’s Private Event)

Fee $60