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February Movies (and a little Kurosawa)
Movies in bold are ones I hadn't seen before. Ones with asterisks, I saw in a theater. I know I've been bad about reviews, but if you want to hear my take on any of these let me know, please. I'm probably more likely to talk if prompted than sit down to write a formal review, these days.
Stray Dog*
Look Back in Anger
The Devil's Rain
The Tenth Level
High and Low *
The Bad Sleep Well
Seven Samurai*
The Time Traveler's Wife
Hedwig and the Angry Inch*
Night of the Iguana
Zodiac
Drunken Angel
Lots of Kurosawa this month! I'm reading a huge dual biography of him and Mifune, The Emperor and the Wolf, which is fascinating. They're both badasses, and what strikes me most initially is how impossible it is for me to understand the experience of growing up in Japan in the pre-war years (not to mention the war) and have gone through the experiences they did. How most of it is incomprehensible to me. And yet, their films and characters are, with allowances made for cultural differences, totally comprehensible. Everything really boils down to being human in the end, to the extent that watching them without any background knowledge really doesn't clue me in to how different their experiences are. I don't know where I'm going with that, if anywhere, but it's interesting.
Stray Dog*
Look Back in Anger
The Devil's Rain
The Tenth Level
High and Low *
The Bad Sleep Well
Seven Samurai*
The Time Traveler's Wife
Hedwig and the Angry Inch*
Night of the Iguana
Zodiac
Drunken Angel
Lots of Kurosawa this month! I'm reading a huge dual biography of him and Mifune, The Emperor and the Wolf, which is fascinating. They're both badasses, and what strikes me most initially is how impossible it is for me to understand the experience of growing up in Japan in the pre-war years (not to mention the war) and have gone through the experiences they did. How most of it is incomprehensible to me. And yet, their films and characters are, with allowances made for cultural differences, totally comprehensible. Everything really boils down to being human in the end, to the extent that watching them without any background knowledge really doesn't clue me in to how different their experiences are. I don't know where I'm going with that, if anywhere, but it's interesting.