shapermc ([info]shapermc) wrote,
@ 2007-10-16 15:17:00
Previous Entry  Add to memories!  Tell a Friend  Next Entry
B-Games, Half-Life 2, and Criterion
-New post up where I discuss the B-Games Competiton, Narrative and Storytelling in games, and a new found Criterion blog

(Read 7 comments) - (Post a new comment)


[info]shapermc
2007-10-17 02:53 pm UTC (link)
Yes, Bad Sleep Well is really something else. Mifune was spectacular. The opening is a bit slow, but after the dinner party it's something.

Also, I really like Ozu. If you have the box I'm refering to, watch Late Spring as I think you'd like it best of what I've seen of his. A very anti-american-influence subtext to it. I know that Ozu's a bit boring, but I really like his family portraits, so I enjoy everything of his I've seen so far. For the price of the box, even if I only like two films it's still worth the value.

The Kurosawa box comes out in a month or so I guess. All the films in it haven't been released yet on DVD as far as I know. It's titled Postwar Kurosawa and includes five films. Also Drunken Angel comes out soon from Criterion. I was pretty much all caught up on Kurosawa until next month.

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]seryoga
2007-10-17 05:21 pm UTC (link)
Do you mean Early Spring? That's the only film I watched, and it was definetely good(there's another Ozu Criterion release that has that title). At the same time, the slowness of most of his movies has been putting me off lately. If you mean Late Autumn then I haven't watched it yet.

Postwar Kurosawa looks amazing and it's going to be the release that gets me back into buying Criterion DVDs, I think. I am, however, disappointed that Sugata Sanshiro isn't on the list (understandable if you consider the title).

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]shapermc
2007-10-17 06:14 pm UTC (link)
Yes, Early Spring. He has too many similarly titled films!

Anyways, I agree with you about the pace. You really need to be in the mood to watch Ozu. A great time to watch them is when you're feeling very melancholy and it's raining outside. All of his movies are structured fairly similarly, so there's nothing that really stands out in his career (that I've seen) which screams "different." Which, I guess, is a good thing.

And yes, Postwar Kurosawa does look amazing. I just figured it was out already since it was announced. I really like what Criterion is doing with their Eclipse series. I also know that a couple of those films have been in Criterion's possession for a while because the liner notes for Red Beard talk about the subtitle translator getting hired for a [couple of Kurosawa films I can't recall off hand but in this set] and when they got hired they knew Red Beard would be the most difficult so they saved it for last. Meaning, I've been waiting for these for a while.

(Reply to this) (Parent)

(Read 7 comments) - (Post a new comment)

Create an Account
Forgot your login or password?
Login w/ OpenID
English • Español • Deutsch • Русский…