Ryuichi Sakamoto | OPUS Showing

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Sunday, Jul 21, 2024 2pm - 9pm

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Desert Drone Presents two screenings of Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus on Sunday, July 21st, at The Screening Room in downtown Tucson. Matinee showing at 2pm and evening showing at 7pm. Advance tickets are available on our Linktree.

A celebration of an artist’s life in the purest sense, Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus is the definitive swan song of one of the world’s greatest musicians. In late 2022, as a parting gift, Ryuichi Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave us with one final performance: a concert film featuring just him and his piano. Curated and sequenced by Sakamoto himself, the twenty pieces featured in the film wordlessly narrate his life through his wide-ranging oeuvre. The selection spans his entire career, from his pop-star period with Yellow Magic Orchestra and his magnificent scores for filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci to his meditative final album,12. Intimately filmed in a space he knew well and surrounded by his most trusted collaborators, including director Neo Sora, his son, Sakamoto bares his soul through his exquisitely haunting melodies, knowing this was the last time he would be able to present his art.