... As someone who thinks that Hou Hsiao-hsien is, far and away, the greatest director of the past two decades, I thought I'd add some more details to this for...
... There's also a DVD (minus English subtitles) of "The Sandwich Man" (one episode by Hou) -- I've borrowed it from the New York Public Library. While I'm not...
... Oh, yes, I forgot about this. The transfer on that is actually quite good and although the lack of subtitles is annoying, it's pretty easy to follow the...
... film ... I didn't mean to imply that the version of the film on the Japanese and French DVDs was longer. Rather that these discs include a deleted scene...
Incidentally, Yubari has its own film festival...which is where Vicky is last seen in MILLENNIUM MAMBO. Here's some information about the Japanese DVD of CAFE...
... I'm pretty sure the official released version of the film has scenes shot in and around Yubari. I've only watched the extras on the Japanese disc once --...
... You're absolutely right! I have watched the extras on Cafe Lumiere -- but they don't shout out Yubari to me. When I hear the words Yubari and Hou in the...
... It's interesting that he returned to Yubari -- much was made of his venturing outside Taiwan to film in Japan in "Cafe Lumiere," but of course he'd already...
Just a quick note to let everyone know that, after an unannounced hiatus of a few months, I'm back to regularly posting on film at Only The Cinema. In the last...
Just watched a DVD of Tay Garnett's SEVEN SINNERS (1940). I wrote an entry on Garnett's THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE for THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK, and SEVEN...
... Interesting, but I have to say that I disagree with this: "For both the Dietrich and John Wayne characters, being "in the Navy" means more than anything...
An 'existentialist' road movie ala TWO LANE BLACKTOP, Thoms takes the aimless, stoned blur of the American counterculutre, and transports it to Australia's...
A quick google search tells us there is a new 35mm of PALM BEACH print available from the (aussie) National Film and Sound Archive. Earlier, I posted a...
... Circumstance had me rereading the opening page of James' THE GOLDEN BOWL yesterday. Which led to a thought or two about Henry James on Film. (And, no, I...
... rate THE LOST MOMENT or the recent WINGS OF THE DOVE? ... this subject. ... Is The Master "cinematic"? This is a very good question. Robin Wood thinks...
Fred Camper has a one-person show of his new art in Chicago, over the next two weeks. Details are at his web site: http://www.fredcamper.com/ I've always...
Some provocative comments: I read three long works by James (Daisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw, The American). As usual with "realistic" novels and films, I...
Mike Grost: He seems much inferior as a ... Fitzgerald. ... and ... May baffle you more, but Graham Greene once wrote (and I don't have the exact quote, mind...
http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2008/06/taon-noon-akoy-anak-sa-labas-years-when.html Special screening at Mogwai, June 17, 8 pm Critic After Dark: a Review...
... One title I forgot to mention was Campion's "Portrait of a Lady." File that one under: Films I Liked At The Time And Don't Know How I'd React Nowadays. I...
I was very surprised by quite how much was going on, visually, in this seemingly innocuous comedy conceived as a dual vehicle for Jayne Mansfield's debut and...
I've been meaning to post about the passing of Joseph Pevney since Blake emailed me about it several weeks ago. But I've been knee deep in dissertation ...
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