I need to see more.
― ¯\(º_o)/¯ (Chris Piuma), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 06:59 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/movies/homevideo/16dvd.html
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:26 (eighteen years ago) link
It's funny how people fuss about the low camera angles, when the characters sit on the floor so often.
I liked that guy who usually plays fathers in the mid- to late period. You know, that guy.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link
The parent-child plots are so similar I have trouble distinguishing unless I see a bunch of them in succession.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link
ihttp://scoopsnoodle.com/future/goodmorning.html
the way the lighter than usual for ozu subject matter plays with his trademark cinematography is absolutely effervescent!
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 13:25 (eighteen years ago) link
http://scoopsnoodle.com/future/futurepix/GoodMorning.jpg
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 25 May 2006 06:54 (eighteen years ago) link
The latest batch!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes! I ordered and have mine on the way. Can't wait to watch them.
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link
criterion/eclipse is doing some silent ozus.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 28 January 2008 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I know Tokyo Story is supposed to be moving. But it just isn't for me. I don't know if it's because everyone in it is generally so stoic?
The best dialogue is near the end: "Life is disappointing, isn't it?""Yes, it is."
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 22 September 2008 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
It's behind Early Summer and Floating Weeds for me – it takes a while to realize why Ozu ping-pongs the couple from child to child – but it's one of those movies that the rewatching of which really makes you love it.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 22 September 2008 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
An Autumn Afternoon has the most shattering conclusion of any Ozu film; I did weep.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.familylosangeles.com/blog/uploaded_images/CinefamilyNovDec-743705.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 20 November 2008 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
what's that from?
― jed_, Thursday, 20 November 2008 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
hi jed, the comics reporter site pointed me to this link:
http://www.familylosangeles.com/blog/2008/11/did-you-know-this-is-out.html
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 20 November 2008 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
The Eclipse series of Criterion has released a shitload of early and late Ozu, some of which have never even gotten a VHS release. I just got Equinox Flower from the library.
― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I watched Equinox Flower last night and it was excellent!
― fit and working again, Friday, 13 November 2009 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
that ware poster is amazing. need a copy.
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Saturday, 14 November 2009 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
So I have finally seen some Ozu films - Tokyo Story and his last one. I was somewhat surprised by them - I had picked up the idea (largely from this thread) that they would be a bit, er, boring. But they are very eventful, even if on a global scale not that much happens in them. I also loved how good natured they are.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 21 January 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I was going to revive this thread because Early Spring looked enticing at the library a few minutes ago.
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 January 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/january_seasons/yasujiro_ozu
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I recommend Late Autumn, probably my second favourite after Tokyo Story.
― Ork Alarm (Matt #2), Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Equinox Flower is my favorite of the color ones; the color accentuates the sadness and fatalism.
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
great article in sight & sound this month about ozu's unseen early genre flicks. didn't know so many - at least 16 iirc - of his films were lost.
― schlump, Thursday, 21 January 2010 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
have tickets to see tokyo story this weekend - psyched
― WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! (dyao), Friday, 22 January 2010 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Feeling awful how I've not seen any one thing from this yet :-(
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 February 2010 11:15 (fourteen years ago) link
the flavour of green tea over rice is worth seeing
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 14 February 2010 11:17 (fourteen years ago) link
tokyo story was aiiiight - like ohayo much better
― dyao, Sunday, 14 February 2010 12:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i just saw tokyo story for the first time in a film class like 3 hours ago--7/11 people were crying by my count. (i was really close, still kind of want to cry tbh)
― een, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 05:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I've only seen 2 Ozu films, Tokyo Story (twice) and Floating Weeds. I found them boring. Do you think I should give up or try other films?
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Late Autumn is slightly pacier than most (only slightly though), Ozu films take a bit of getting used to though - I saw Floating weeds ages ago and thought it was boring, now I love it.
― Matt #2, Monday, 26 April 2010 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
if you found them boring, you should give up - his other stuff is not loaded with action - what he does is contemplative
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i'd leave it. you might come back to him, you might not, but i wouldn't keep reading a novelist if i didn't like them after three goes.
― Norway, that's where I'm a viking! (history mayne), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
As has been pointed out previously on this thread, Good Morning has lots of fart jokes. Slowly paced, but with farting.
― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
good morning is great, pretty accessible becauase of the fart jokes
― ⚡ You vike this. (dyao), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
fart jokes go a long way
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 04:41 (fourteen years ago) link
You could try a slightly off-center Ozu if you felt like it, something like A Hen in the Wind.
― who's always getting head from the commissioner (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 04:48 (fourteen years ago) link
think part of the prob w/ TOKYO STORY esp is that the original negative was destroyed in a fire, so even new prints are struck from dupes, often making the image muddy/less luminous than it shld be
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 07:57 (fourteen years ago) link
BFI have a blu ray of tokyo story out in the summer, will be interesting to see how that fares
― cozen, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 07:59 (fourteen years ago) link
even more off-centre: Dragnet Girl! it is a delight.
― c sharp major, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 08:14 (fourteen years ago) link
> I've only seen 2 Ozu films, Tokyo Story (twice) and Floating Weeds. I found them boring.
i was enthralled from the very first shot of Floating Weeds
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/4525225877_8058195c52.jpg
was the first Ozu i'd seen in colour, and the colour served to make the black and white kimonos stand out more.
― koogs, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 10:16 (fourteen years ago) link
the opening shots of an autumn afternoon are similarly spellbinding.
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
It took Floating Weeds and Early Summer for me to "get" him.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
boy, is Tokyo Twilight bleak: an abortion, confrontation, and suicide.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
are there ppl who hate ozu
― nakhchivan, Monday, 16 January 2012 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
high schoolers
― tanuki, Monday, 16 January 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link