March 2012
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Beauty Secrets, by Mary Murphy →
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From Ozu, Where Are Now the Dreams of Youth?
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“Things must be loved first and improved afterwards”
– G. K. Chesterton, The Defendent.
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“The author has asserted his moral rights.”
– Piers Paul Read, The Misogynist, copyright page.
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What Lincoln Was Hiding →
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Barzun's women →
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January 2012
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Rebecca Bynum: Jacques Barzun, Wisdom and Grace →
Review of Michael Murray, Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind.
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gentle rereader: Rediscovering Jacques Barzun →
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:: Exernet Spotlight :: →
aegis-grin: :: Observations on film art » A modest extravagance: Four looks at Ozu a new, undiscovered master of subtlety and dichotomy in cinema. 
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"浮草" (1959)
espectrofilia: A.K.A.: “Floating Weeds”, “Ukigusa” Directed by: Yasujirô Ozu Country: Japan Length: 119 min. Genre: Drama Cast: Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Haruko Sugimura Cinematographer: Kazuo Miyagawa Music by: Kojun Saitô Art Director: Tomoo Shimogawara
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Rotation
by David Zweitausend
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Labyrinth
by David Zweitausend
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Yin and Yang
by David Zweitausend
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missingozu: Ozu and Noda’s notes for The Radish and the Carrot // OZU MONTH: #19. daughter and father fight -the daughter leaves and goes to her friend, Baisho’s place #20. the old part of Tokyo, and the friend has a modest lifestyle #21. Toshi and Kasa fight -but while the husbands are fighting, the wives meet secretly to discuss about wedding plans
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by David Zweitausend
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“A good book gets lost easily in war. (Of course it gets lost in a much more...”
– Donald Stauffer, ”Shakespeare in the Pacific,” New York Times, July 29, 1945.
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missingozu: Ozu and Noda’s notes for The Radish and the Carrot // OZU MONTH: #18. Tanaka (Toshi’s wife), buys Iwashita (daughter)’s furniture so she could bring that to her marriage -when Toshi looks at this, he says, “what!” -I don’t want my daughter to be married to the son of that guy
Dec 15th
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missingozu: On emotion in cinema: Get rid of all the dramatics and show a sad character. Without using drama make the audience feel the emotion.
Dec 15th
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“The Japanese language is characterized among other things by evocative...”
– Jamie Katz, Sensei and Sensibility
Dec 15th
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Missing Ozu: Ozu and Noda’s notes for The Radish... →
missingozu: Ozu and Noda’s notes for The Radish and the Carrot // OZU MONTH: #15. last scene -they both understand where each other is coming from, but yet they still fight #16. kasa’s son, Yoshida is employed at Toshi’s company -don’t go to that company -I didn’t want my son to be allowed to go there -but I took a test to get into this company
Dec 15th
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