just sayin', despre un film similar
Ozu Interior Special Edition
At first thought you’d guess that the story of film would be about scenes like this one from Casablanca, full of yearning, story and stardom. Because Casablanca’s a Hollywood classic. Ingrid Bergman’s lit like a movie star, highlights in her eyes. It’s all filmed on a studio set. But films like Casablanca are too romantic to be Classical in the true sense.
Instead Japanese films like this are the real Classical movies. Romantic films are always in a rush, but this moment in Record of a Tenement Gentleman is a pause in the story. A cat, a chiming clock, a kettle quietly coming to the boil, the almost square frame filled with smaller squares and rectangles, calm, emotionally restrained like a little Classical Greek temple. So Hollywood’s not Classical, Japan is.
Mark Cousins from part 1 of his epic 15 part TV series The Story of Film : An Odyssey !
sau poate că nu-s similare, le-am văzut pe vremea cînd eram fată tînără, nu bătrînă
