Blogs about: Setsuko Hara
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20 Actresses (grand finale)
This viral theme has long played itself out everywhere else, but not here. It’s a big pantheon, but not infinite, so consider this a last shot. Once more, with pleasure. Joan Blondell, Norma She… more →
Surface Noise™
Setsuko Hara - Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
wrote 4 months ago: Whereas elsewhere crescendos will always threaten from somewhere beyond the frame here the space bet … more →
Late Spring
wrote 5 months ago: Nobody handles domestic life like Yasujirō Ozu. With 1949’s beautiful Late Spring, Ozu constructs on … more →
On Finding Words #1
wrote 6 months ago: Certain moving images can conjure moments when the movement from friend to lover is defined by gestu … more →
Yasujiro Ozu's "Tokyo Story": A long way from home
wrote 6 months ago: I watched Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story twice, and only during the second viewing did I understand who … more →
Early Summer
wrote 6 months ago: The films of Yasujirō Ozu are noted for their character development and honesty. There was perhaps n … more →
Busy
wrote 10 months ago: I know, I’ve not posted in like 5 days, sorry about that, not really anything new to post. Jus … more →
20 Actresses (grand finale)
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wrote 10 months ago: This viral theme has long played itself out everywhere else, but not here. It’s a big pantheon … more →
Notes on film: Tokyo Story
wrote 1 year ago: “We can’t expect too much from our children”. Tokyo Story (Tôkyô monogatari) is ge … more →
No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
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wrote 1 year ago: Akira Kurosawa’s first post-war film, No Regrets for Our Youth, is a strange uneasy movie. The story … more →
No Regrets For Our Youth
wrote 1 year ago: Better known for her work as the semi-tragic unwed daughter in a number of Ozu’s family dramas … more →
