there's a Chaplin season on sky arts in the UK and Modern Times (78 in the S&S list) and City Lights (36) will be two of those (i think MT is next Saturday and Sunday). so far there's been The Kid, Gold Rush, The Circus. Criterion logo in all the credits.
― koogs, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 23:24 (three weeks ago) link
Finished watching Madame De..., you are all dead-on with the novel comparisons, reminded me of Zola's "La Curée", though without the politics, such a dance the three do with each-other, and the fact that they spent so much time actually dancing did not seem like a blunt metaphor. I did find it a little difficult to connect with on an emotional level, as I always do with the Belle Époque upper class, not sure why this is.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 3 May 2024 20:57 (two weeks ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Tokyo-story-20201121.jpg
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 (two weeks ago) link
Heartbreaking.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Sunday, 5 May 2024 16:27 (two 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 (two 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 (five days 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 (five days 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 (four days ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/La_Strada.jpg
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 (three days 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 (three days ago) link
brilliant film
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:52 (three days 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 (three days ago) link