{"id":1593,"date":"2005-04-22T10:35:15","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T18:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2010-03-05T14:33:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T22:33:36","slug":"cinema-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1593","title":{"rendered":"cinema 1963"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u5929\u56fd\u3068\u5730\u7344 High and Low<\/i>. Kurosawa does not disappoint in this policier, from a novel by Ed McBain (King’s Ransom<\/i>). As in \u91ce\u826f\u72ac Stray Dog<\/i><\/a>, it’s weird to see Mifune with a modern haircut and mustache; I could not be sure it was him until a close-up. Three other actors from 7 Samurai<\/i> and Tsubaki Sanjuro<\/i> were easier to spot.<\/p>\n

\u65b0\u30fb\u5ea7\u982d\u5e02\u7269\u8a9e New Tale of Zatôichi<\/i> (#3, dir. Tanaka). Now in color. We learn more of Ichi’s past.<\/p>\n

The Birds<\/i> (dir. Hitchcock). Every bit as pointless as I feared it might be.<\/p>\n

The Mind Benders<\/i> (dir. Basil Dearden).<\/p>\n

Hud<\/i> (dir. Martin Ritt). I was curious about this for a silly reason. Soon after I first heard of it (I guess in advertisements for a television showing), there was a radio PSA saying “call HUD” if you’ve been treated unfairly. At the time I didn’t know that HUD was an acronym, so I thought, is this a subtle ad for the movie or what? So it stuck like a burr in a corner of my mind.<\/p>\n

Irma la Douce<\/i> (dir. Billy Wilder). For once, a comedy set in Paris where no one tries to put on a frog-eating accent — despite the opening narration by Louis Jourdan.<\/p>\n

\u5ea7\u982d\u5e02\u5147\u72b6\u65c5 Zatôichi the Fugitive<\/i> (#4; dir. Tanaka). Subtitles of Japanese movies seem always to be more or less compressed; here, I think some important background was omitted.<\/p>\n

The Haunting<\/i> (dir. Robert Wise).<\/p>\n

Tom Jones<\/i> (dir. Tony Richardson). Damned fine sport, as some of the characters might say. — In the book, I believe, Squire Western illustrates his name by speaking with a pronounzed Zomerzet dialect, voizing all his vricatives; zadly there’s none of that in Hugh Griffith’s portrayal.<\/p>\n

Le Mépris (Contempt)<\/i> (dir. Godard). Abandoned for boredom.<\/p>\n

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World<\/i> (dir. Stanley Kramer). At least half an hour could be cut as repetitive, and it would still be unusually long for a comedy; yet the plot is quite simple.<\/p>\n

Doctor Who<\/i>. I’m enough of a fan to watch as much of the canon as is available. The disc Lost in Time: the William Hartnell years<\/i> collects surviving early episodes (most were wiped so the BBC could reuse the tape). I wonder whether “The Crusade”, in which the Doctor’s party get entangled with Cœur de Lion and Saladin, would have the same plot if written fifteen years later!<\/p>\n

Zatôichi’s Fighting Journey<\/i> (#5; dir. Yasuda). Good use of color; good script; good fight-scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u5929\u56fd\u3068\u5730\u7344 High and Low. Kurosawa does not disappoint in this policier, from a novel by Ed McBain (King’s Ransom). As in \u91ce\u826f\u72ac Stray Dog, it’s weird to see Mifune with a modern haircut and mustache; I could not be sure … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2281,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}