Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
*Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative* Born out of a workshop with acting students from the Tokyo film school ENBU, *Intimacies *itself follows a group of students rehearsing and then staging a play. At four hours, it’s Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s earliest exploration of duration as a cinematic device with the first half focused on the group’s preparations and the second, aside from a brief, poignant coda, a presentation of the complete play. Personal problems and current events threaten to derail the project with director Reiko (Rei Hirano) adjusting and revising to keep the play and her relationship with the playwright, Ryo (Ryo Sato), on track.—*Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm* DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Ryusuke Hamaguchi. With: Rei Hirano, Ryo Sato, Mikio Tayama.