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Aug. 12th, 2011 05:25 pmWe saw some plays and art movies lately. The movies:
Tokyo Story - Finally. Liked it, though it's long and tedious, mostly pleasantly. Ozu's good with cumulative suggestiveness. No competition for Kurosawa.
Umberto D. - Completely devastating. I forgot how great De Sica can be, but he needs to work on my heart with a smaller chainsaw.
Rules of the Game - Saw this at least once, ages ago, and didn't like it. Figured the failing had been mine and wanted to show it to Julie. We both hate it. Why is this film praised? I lightly like some other Renoirs - The River and The Southerner and Grand Illusion - but have no understanding of why this film is praised at al, let alone sky high like it's been. Maybe it was good for 1939, and unHollywoodly, but that's like saying a British play was good for 1574 and unMysterily.
In the Mood for Love - Disliked this but can see how others might disagree. It's a mood piece, as hinted by the title. If this is the kind of situation you like to savor, you're in luck, and if not it'll be in your face a while all slow and situational.
Best of the plays was Cat on a Hot Tin Roof over at the Shaw Festival - actually, best production of anything I've ever seen live, excepting the draggy third act which is Williams' fault anyway. It's so good they may tour it, keep an eye out.
Tokyo Story - Finally. Liked it, though it's long and tedious, mostly pleasantly. Ozu's good with cumulative suggestiveness. No competition for Kurosawa.
Umberto D. - Completely devastating. I forgot how great De Sica can be, but he needs to work on my heart with a smaller chainsaw.
Rules of the Game - Saw this at least once, ages ago, and didn't like it. Figured the failing had been mine and wanted to show it to Julie. We both hate it. Why is this film praised? I lightly like some other Renoirs - The River and The Southerner and Grand Illusion - but have no understanding of why this film is praised at al, let alone sky high like it's been. Maybe it was good for 1939, and unHollywoodly, but that's like saying a British play was good for 1574 and unMysterily.
In the Mood for Love - Disliked this but can see how others might disagree. It's a mood piece, as hinted by the title. If this is the kind of situation you like to savor, you're in luck, and if not it'll be in your face a while all slow and situational.
Best of the plays was Cat on a Hot Tin Roof over at the Shaw Festival - actually, best production of anything I've ever seen live, excepting the draggy third act which is Williams' fault anyway. It's so good they may tour it, keep an eye out.
