Related to Oe Kenzaburo, but Itami Juzo, most famous for the "spaghetti Western" Tampopo, also made a very good and very weird adaptation of Oe's 1990 book A Quiet Life (静かな生活). It's completely different in every way from Itami's other movies. Very David Lynch.
www.criterionchannel.com/a-quiet-life
Not the morning we expected here in Tokyo, but if you like, let your timeline be cleansed by it anyway.
It was 40 years ago today that my life took a turn for the better. I saw the Jesus & Mary Chain in Plymouth and nothing was quite the same again. Thanks to Jeff Barrett for the flyer and for putting the gig on in the first place.
Often followed by a terse “N’importe quoi”…
Signage in English and other languages also widely available…
Does the job…
A good man/editor is hard to find…
Pietro Germi y Marcello Mastroianni durante el rodaje de Divorzio all'italiana (1961).
Should be a Bond theme… youtu.be/XP3SKOMfMYU?... a cinematic feel to a lot of stuff on the new Jesus and Mary Chain album but definitely a John Barry twang to this one…
Essential to Edinburgh cultural life, really.
Should be a Bond theme… youtu.be/XP3SKOMfMYU?... a cinematic feel to a lot of stuff on the new Jesus and Mary Chain album but definitely a John Barry twang to this one…
A laughing Wim Wenders holding a copy of the Criterion Collection’s edition of Down by Law (1986) directed by Jim Jarmusch
“This is one of my all-time favourites – I start laughing when I see the cover.” Infectious enthusiasm from Wim Wenders – about Down by Law and several other movies – in this latest Closet Picks from Criterion youtu.be/6dXSH9n2aC4?...
Hundreds of phone alarms going off on subway platform may not have helped but certainly have not felt shake like that underground before (and have been here since 2007)
Whole Chiyoda line platform juddered at Hibiya…
Ah, thanks. Hoping everything goes well this summer, was a pretty weird Olympics here in Tokyo last time.
Is thar down by the Bastille end of the Canal, a former resident asks?
Giulietta Masina
Some cracking listening here… soundtrack music originally issued on 7-inch and compiled in album form here… youtu.be/tWru6pmW42k?...
Hmm, don’t recall much of an impression from Torn Curtain and realise I’ve not seen the other two at all… Marnie and Frenzy I do remember favourably though…
BTD - Patrick McGoohan - DANGER MAN IN TOKYO (KOROSHI) - 1968 - Pakistani release poster
Now that you mention it, maybe there’s a band implosion/defection link between ‘Ballad of the Band’ and ‘Make Me Smile’…
Actor Joseph Cotten — in costume, dressed in a dark-coloured suit, tie, overcoat and fedora hat — captured facing the camera while sitting on a director's chair, clutching a newspaper in his left hand and a white tea cup in his right, a director's chair inscribed with the name "Orson Welles" positioned beside him, upon which two Miniature Pinscher dogs sit, in a medium-length shot taken during a break from filming The Third Man (1949)
Joseph Cotten and friends during a break from filming The Third Man (1949)
I would guess in quieter, older quarters you could still find a few places like this. Nothing if not quirky, BXL…
Not seen this yet but there’s just something quintessentially Brussels about the look of it… Apartments I rented there looked just like this @seancostello.bsky.social
Yes, for me there’s a lightness/whimsy there that isn’t evident elsewhere. He doesn’t mention it here but I think this is the kind of Ozu that Kaurismaki would like… youtu.be/7ZPpnd4hTVw?...
… a soundtrack also used in Austin Powers, I read… thanks, will look out for this one, not heard of it. Japanese poster interesting, I think from a few years after release, different feel to it.
#japan #film #Criterion has a spotlight series on director Tanaka Kinuyo, better known as a prewar superstar actress, and protege of Mizuguchi Kenji. Her 1960 colour movie 'Wandering Princess' tells the story the story of Saga Hiro. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiro_Saga en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wan...
A number of books have brought tears to my eyes, but today is the first time a library did. All libraries are magical, of course, but the Biblioteca de Mexico is something else altogether. I'll try to explain why.
'Once Upon a Nursery Crime'...?
