\u96a0\u3057\u7826\u306e\u4e09\u60aa\u4eba (Hidden Fortress)<\/i> (1958, dir. Kurosawa). Good fun. — I don’t understand Japanese, but noticed that the princess seemed to use her title hime<\/i> as pronoun.<\/p>\n
Rio Bravo<\/i> (1959, dir. Hawks). Drags some. — When I saw this years ago on AMC<\/a>(?), the presenter told the story that, when Howard Hawks started to pitch the plot, John Wayne quickly recognized it as one they had made before (which I think I had also seen, though its title now escapes me) and asked, “Do I get to be the drunk this time?”<\/p>\n Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows)<\/i> (1958, dir. Truffaut). My One True Ex warned me that it’s quite boring. I watched some of the beginning, and a bit near the end, and concluded that she was likely right. — The translation of the title is unfortunate: coups<\/i> here is better rendered as strokes<\/i>, and anyway the phrase really means, roughly, every trick in the book<\/i>. — Most movies on DVD have twenty or thirty scene-markers; this has only six.<\/p>\n Ohayô (Good Morning)<\/i> (1959, dir. Ozu). Amusing slice of suburban life. — Someone says “sayonara” and I think, is this the first time I’ve ever heard a Japanese use that word?<\/p>\n Orfeu Negro<\/i> (1959, dir. M.Camus). Pretty but unsatisfying: the drivers of the plot – Eurydice’s nemesis, and Orfeu’s love for her – are never motivated. — I was surprised to understand so few words of a Romance language; and more surprised at the frequency of the pronoun você<\/i>. Is tu<\/i> as dead in Brazil as thou<\/i> in the Anglosphere?<\/p>\n The Immaculate Collection<\/i>, Madonna videos of the Eighties. It turned out to include only two that I hadn’t seen a hundred times (“Borderline” and “La Isla Bonita”), plus a staging of “Vogue” that’s even sillier than the familiar one. I was hoping it would have “Justify My Love” which was deemed too racy for MTV. No luck. — When she wore that sheer top in “Vogue”, where did her nips go?<\/p>\n An Ideal Husband<\/i> (1999, dir. O.Parker). Not all of Oscar Wilde’s plays, I find, are as fluffy as Earnest<\/i>. Excellent performances, too.<\/p>\n I forgot to mention last week that my One True Ex dragged me to see Stage Beauty<\/i> (2003, dir. R.Eyre), a comedy about gender issues during the Stuart Restoration. It’s a treat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u96a0\u3057\u7826\u306e\u4e09\u60aa\u4eba (Hidden Fortress) (1958, dir. Kurosawa). Good fun. — I don’t understand Japanese, but noticed that the princess seemed to use her title hime as pronoun. Rio Bravo (1959, dir. Hawks). Drags some. — When I saw this years ago … Continue reading