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Tokyo Story, Yasujirō Ozu, 1953
Morbsies #141Sight & Sound Critics #4Sight & Sound Directors #4
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:55 (four weeks ago) link
Heartbreaking.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Sunday, 5 May 2024 16:27 (four weeks ago) link
yeah, didn't even make the top 100
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 5 May 2024 16:32 (four weeks ago) link
I finished Tokyo Story a little while ago and have been slowly digesting it - while I liked it quite a lot I still haven't worked out why it's a masterpiece, maybe this is just something not worth worrying about, but it just reminds me of a lot of other low-key studies of family life - that's something I generally love anyway, maybe it's that I've seen so many of its successors that it just doesn't seem novel? I am also a little confused by Chishū Ryū's acting, it is so low-key that I find myself questioning whether he's actually doing anything. (Also cannot believe that he's 49 years old in this and lived until 1993! And Kyōko Kagawa is still alive!)
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 16 May 2024 19:51 (two weeks ago) link
is so low-key that I find myself questioning whether he's actually doing anything.
best kind of acting imo
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 May 2024 20:27 (two weeks ago) link
I am undecided between "best" and "not best" - certainly he would be at home in a Roy Andersson film, so that sounds like I should come down on the side of "best"
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 17 May 2024 06:39 (two weeks ago) link
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La Strada, Federico Fellini, 1954
Morbsies #648Sight & Sound Directors #38
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 18 May 2024 14:24 (two weeks ago) link
This one is on youtube in its entirety with English subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPefZ8cZCl0
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 18 May 2024 14:25 (two weeks ago) link
brilliant film
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:52 (two weeks ago) link
I liked it but I suspect Fellini thought it was about how sex is evil and makes you subhuman
― adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 18 May 2024 16:00 (two weeks ago) link
So Gelsomina is supposed to be autistic, right?
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 25 May 2024 19:45 (one week ago) link
Just finished this, quite a bleak ending and I'm not sure what to take away - but the world conjured up on the way was certainly worth it.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 27 May 2024 21:20 (six days ago) link
I do find it a little hard to get over what a complete dick Zampano is though, just not really interested in his internal life, he's so despicable.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 27 May 2024 21:28 (six days ago) link
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Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954
Morbsies #22Sight & Sound Critics #38
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 30 May 2024 12:54 (three days ago) link
This was always by least-favourite of the a-tier Hitchcocks, however my exposure to it was on my Film Studies degree while being introduced to "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" so the heavy-handedness I remember may just be the lecturers.
Obviously this isn't freely available on Youtube - anyone know where it is streaming?
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 30 May 2024 12:57 (three days ago) link
I know it's tempting to hold the movie's easy pedagogical meta elements against it. But I wouldn't, it's maybe the most sheerly entertaining movie he made between The 39 Steps and Psycho.
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 May 2024 13:14 (three days ago) link
I feel fortunate to have seen all those classic Hitchcock movies like Psycho and Rear Window on tv when I was a kid and have my appreciation further deepen for them as I get older.
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Thursday, 30 May 2024 13:24 (three days ago) link
The 1998 remake starring Christopher Reeve is apparently free to stream on youtube. Probably not going to bother with it.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 30 May 2024 13:50 (three days ago) link
It's on Bezos-Prime
― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Thursday, 30 May 2024 14:06 (three days ago) link
If you don't mind hard-coded subs: https://archive.org/details/rear-window-1954_202007gear icon -> HD
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 30 May 2024 14:24 (three days ago) link
Eric otm. When Stewart, Kelly, and Ritter plot together, it'direction. point of Hitch's ensemble directing.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 May 2024 14:50 (three days ago) link
Yeah, Rear Window rocks. Has overtaken North By Northwest as my fave Hitch.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 30 May 2024 15:12 (three days ago) link
some of the early relationship scenes dragotherwise it's great
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 30 May 2024 15:16 (three days ago) link
i find that "heavily foregrounded meta but glommed onto pure story-telling thrills" is the core of Hitchcock's attraction tbh
― i love a man in a unicorn (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 May 2024 16:17 (three days ago) link
Whoa -- I apologize for my phone-posted post. I meant: "best Hitchhock-directed ensemble."
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 May 2024 17:36 (three days ago) link
Forget Vertigo -- Stewart never played a better Pure Acting moment than when he watches Thorwald assault Lisa.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 May 2024 17:37 (three days ago) link
Forget Vertigo
I will not
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 May 2024 18:36 (three days ago) link