{"id":662528,"date":"2026-08-29T18:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/662528\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T18:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:26:14","slug":"the-weekend-read-russell-tovey-saving-sambizanga-japanese-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/662528\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Read: Russell Tovey, Saving &#8216;Sambizanga&#8217; &#038; Japanese Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn 2021,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/martin-scorsese\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Scorsese<\/a>\u2019s Film Foundation partnered with Cineteca di Bologna to launch a new 4K restoration of\u00a0Sambizanga, the second feature film directed by the filmmaker and political activist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sarah-maldoror\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Maldoror<\/a>, at Il Cinema Ritrovato.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSince then, prints of\u00a0Sambizanga\u00a0and Maldoror\u2019s many later works have been some of the most in-demand properties on the repertory scene, with retrospectives at various institutions from MoMA to Museo Reina Sof\u00eda in Madrid. And next up on the trail is London, where, next week, the British Film Institute will launch its own large-scale survey of Maldoror\u2019s sprawling career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTitled\u00a0A Poet With A Camera: The Cinema of Sarah Maldoror,\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bfi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BFI<\/a>\u2019s season will screen more than 40 films made with the involvement of Maldoror throughout her decades-long career. The series launches on September 2 with the Scorsese-backed\u00a0Sambizanga\u00a0restoration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/sarah-maldoror-annouchka-de-andrade-bfi-martin-scorsese-1237050809\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the interview with Maldoror\u2019s daughter Annouchka de Andrade<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2021,\u00a0Martin Scorsese\u2019s Film Foundation partnered with Cineteca di Bologna to launch a new 4K restoration of\u00a0Sambizanga, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[279926,434,18,117,279927,19,17,32886,279928,279929,279930],"class_list":["post-662528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bitters-end","tag-celebrities","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-i-am-the-prize","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-martin-scorsese","tag-russell-tovey","tag-sambizanga","tag-sarah-maldoror"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117180208539505786","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}