Perhaps my love of watching film in theaters on film comes from Lawrence of Arabia. I first saw in 1989 at the Northpoint Theater in San Francisco. I can still remember that day and how I felt as i watched this masterpiece unfold. I subsequently purchased it on VHS (which was letterboxed, of course) and watched it again and again… Read more →
Month: January 2016
The Godfather I and II
Part I Part II Is having seeing The Godfather III but not I and II the same as having only seen the Star Wars prequels but not the original trilogy itself? Whatever that means, that is the case for me. I saw Godfather III in a movie theater, but have yet to watch the first two, even on VHS tape.… Read more →
Clouds of Sils Maria
The first Oliver Assayas film I saw was Irma Vep, at the Singapore International Film Festival in 1997. The last one I saw was Carlos, which I saw at the Kawasaki Art Center’s Artelio Cinema a few years back. I haven’t seen every Assays film but the ones I have seen have always been interesting, always discussing how people cope… Read more →
A New Earth and Priest of Darkness
Setsuko Hara, who stared in many films by Yasujiro Ozu, passed away last year. I have never been a big fan of Ozu so I am not too familiar with Hara’s work. Most of the obituaries written about her focused on her postwar career with Ozu and her disappearance from public view soon after her death. In fact, though, she… Read more →