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Tokyo Story got voted the greatest film of all time by Halliwell's film guide, and it probably isn't too far from the truth.

I've seen quite a few Ozu films. Most of his best ones except Equinox Flower really.

His style with the static, low angled camera was wonderfully described by the director Masahiro Shinoda, an assistant on some of his films, as the point of view of a tiny deity observing humanity.

The Halliwell's Who's Who in Movies edition awarded Ozu their prestigious rosette for outstanding contribution to cinema 'for demonstrating with consummate skill and great understanding of the human condition that less can mean more'.

 

They are at that. I haven't seen much else of Suzuki's work but I think a lot of his later stuff got bollocksed up by studio interference.

 

Kobayashi, Mizoguchi and Shindo are three other great Japanese directors of that age. Produced classics like Ugetsu Monogatari, Onibaba (a deeply strange, disturbing but brilliant film) and Kwaidan. Inagaki too with his Samurai trilogy starring Mifune. It really became a golden age for their cinema after the war.

 

Kinji Fukasaku destroys him in 2 rounds.:bbb

 

What the **** happened to ESB's layout.

 

http://www.boxingforum24.com/showthread.php?t=456079

This is so ****ed up. :-(

 

Its terrible. No avatars, no vbookie, no profile so i cant post or respond to visitor messages, nothing. No option to change the format or layout. It's bare as ****.

 

Yeah, sucks on my iphone now.

Tin_Ribs re-watching Aguirre and already I'm feeling like I'm there and am not seeing a nonce, I'm seeing a character.

Herzog's direction is what makes it so real. Documentary style almost, and the actors actually go on that journey. It's mental. One of my grippest gripes with the 'historical epic' (not that this fits that category for obvious reasons) is when you've got different nationalities all speaking English (or whatever) yet with this it grabs me so much I don't even notice all the Spaniards speaking German after a while

Herzog only has himself to blame for taking someone he knew was so volatile through this and Fitzcarraldo

You seen Woyzeck?

 

The last great hallucinator, one film critic called him. The stories, the impossible production and the characters all seem to meld together as an extension of him onscreen. Aguirre had me spellbound from the opening moment when the mist breaks and you see the army of conquistadors descending the mountain. The late, great Florian Fricke deserves an immense amount of credit too for that score with the choir organ. I can sit and listen to it for hours on loop.

Woyzeck is excellent too, though not for everyone. Weird feel to it, sort of detached but claustrophobic at the same time. I wonder what Eva Mattes makes of the revelations about Kinski? She liked him a lot iirc.

You seen many of the Herzog documentaries Flea?

 

Only 'My Best Fiend' although I wanna' see the one about the girl that survived a plane crash.

I've seen the Kinski films, Bad Lieutenant Port Of Call New Orleans, and Rescue Dawn. Think that's all I've seen of Herzog's movies.

 

Just woke up to 3 inches of snow.

 

Woke up to a quarter-inch of rain.

 

Juliane Koepcke in Wings of Hope? I've not seen that one for years. I'd definitely recommend most of his stuff from the last 10 to 12 years: Grizzly Man, Encounters, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Into the Abyss etc. Burden of Dreams is brilliant too, though he didn't direct it.

I'd say watch The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser too. As good as any of the stuff he did with Kinski.