... Jean- Pierre, What I meant by how the avant-garde made me see things differently is by the way in which avant –garde films required me to be open and ...
... I ... stuff. ... don't ... of ... should ... suppose. ... He ... his ... He ... They ... thought, ... were, I ... reasonably ... "What horrible sins are...
... Well, he used his box cutter to create an enjoyable truffle that displayed a modest craft. Neame also pushed Ernest Borgnine into new heights of excess:...
... new ... To judge from the few Ronald Neame films I've seen, he might actually have been an auteur. Both TUNES OF GLORY and FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER are...
I watched "Haru no mezame" (Spring's Awakening, Mikio Naruse, 1947) with Don Sallitt. this film was left out of the recent Naruse centennial retrospective...
... Is this to be read as democratic or possibly non-committal and/or evasive? Dave Kehr's capsule review of "First Monday in October" comments on the above...
I didn't succeed with a half-hour unsubbed foray into Naruse's INAZUMA (LIGHTNING)--not blaming Naruse for this. On the other-hand, I've had consistent success...
Masters of Cinema (UK) will be releasing subtitled DVDs of Naruse's MESHI ('Repast'), YAMA NO OTO ('Sound of the Mountain') and NAGARERU ('Flowing') in the new...
I'm not at all sure about Neame's auteurist bona fides, but he's an important figure in the history of the British cinema. He produced such David Lean classics...
I actually have an nth-generation copy of a subbed version of Naruse's "Lightning" -- but the video quality is so horrendous that I don't think I was ever able...
... Sooner -- unless things get delayed. The last I heard these are presently scheduled for release in early December (according to Amazon UK). MOC/Eureka did...
... Naruse's ... NAGARERU ... Amazon ... - ... It is great to hear about those three that are coming out. And I also agree it's too bad about "Lightning"--I...
... even ... The BFI submitted FLOATING CLOUDS, WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS and LATE CHRYSANTHEMUMS to the BBFC (for a theatrical, not a video, ...
... BFI is supposed to be releasing a Naruse box set next spring (or thereabouts). These could well be the films that will be included in that set. Unless the...
What's the story with these (only Chinese-subtitled) Naruse DVDs on ebay? http://search.ebay.com/naruse There are three here I haven't seen -- Ginza Cosmetics,...
... These are probably bootlegged versions of some of Japanese DVD releases. "Okuni to Gohei" is really "Lightning" -- judging by the overall packaging. I'd...
... I would not at all deny or overlook Neame's role in the history of British cinema. Brad, let me be more direct in my question to you in regard to Neame: I...
One of British television's greatest talents died today. Creator of THE QUATERMASS series and scenarist of LOOK BACK IN ANGER as well as the author of THE...
I would like to make an apology to this group for a posting I made earlier in which I accidentally quoted material in an email which was meant to be private....
... Not by me; I don't consider watching a film unsubbed to be tearing anything apart, quite the contrary... it creates larger "spaces of consideration" - ...
I just caught the Stone Tapes, made for TV, two years ago when it was shown at Lincoln Center. Very scary idea, brought to life with Kneale's typical...
"Five Million Years to Earth" aka "Quatermas and the Pit" is one of my very favorite science fiction films. Truly subtle-scary in the Val Lewton mode -- even ...
I remember in 1998 unwrapping the beautiful widescreen DVD of Quatermass and the Pit and putting it on for my wife, who'd never seen it... and halfway through...
... David, Have you seen the original television version of QUATERMASS AND THE PIT? It is now out in England on a compilation DVD with the two surviving...
Sam W. - Almost no one living in the US has seen much Naruse. The only titles ever released here on video are: Late Chrysanthemums When a Woman Ascends the...
... I have the impression that the show itself is lost, though the script was published along with the ones for THE STONE TAPE and THE YEAR OF THE SEX OLYMPICS...
