February 2011
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Jan 31st
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“The arts and the humanities are always in the thick of the battle of ideas. ...”
– Jacques Barzun, Art—by-act-of-Congress
Jan 30th
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“My favourite classical composer is Hector Berlioz, the wild man of the Early...”
– John Murrell, interviewed by Lives in Five.
Jan 30th
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“According to Chishu Ryu, Shuji Sano was the favorite of Ozu. However, it did not...”
– Vermillion and One Nights, Analysis of “There Was A Father”, 00:42:00 - 00:47:59
Jan 30th
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Is Democratic Theory for Export? →
Jan 29th
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"The best review I’ve yet read, period, of"... →
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The Fake-Fictional Style →
Jan 26th
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The Story of Why Everything Is So Depressing Today →
Jan 26th
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“At the hospital, faced with his body, I didn’t feel like crying at all....”
– The night of the wake, from Quotes from Yuharu Atsuta
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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“Jacques Barzun quoted: ‘It takes hundreds of the gifted to make half a...”
– Comment by Bill Lawlor in The New York Times
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Comment on Barzun's longevity →
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Doron B. Cohen on Ozu's Equinox Flower →
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Ozu List
Jan 21st
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“It is the films of Yasujiro Ozu who help me know a good woman when I see her,...”
– Comment to The Burden of the Liberal Arts by D. G. Myers
Jan 20th
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Pat Ford – Executive Director of Save Our Wild... →
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On or about Setsuko Hara
In Kurosawa’s No Regrets for Our Youth, Setsuko Hara played Martha.  In Ozu’s films, she played Mary.  Mary had the better part.
Jan 16th
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On or about Setsuko Hara
Whoever considers Ozu to be the greatest of directors could not wish Setsuko Hara to be other than she is in his films.
Jan 16th
I am in you.  You are not yet in me.  Jesus, enter my heart.
Jan 16th
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite...”
– C.S. Lewis (via becket)
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Setsuko Hara and her directors
from IMDB: Big Wind from Tokyo 1966 (Seiji Maruyama) The Great White Tower 1962 (Satsuo Yamamoto) Chushingura (Riku Oishi) 1962 (Hiroshi Inagaki) My Daughter and I (Chizuko Iwatani) 1961 (Hiromichi Horikawa) The End of Summer (Akiko) 1961 (Ozu) Late Autumn (Akiko Miwa) 1960 (Ozu) Daughters, Wives and a Mother (Sanae Soga) 1960 (Naruse) The Wayside Pebble (Oren Aikawa) 1960 (Seiji...
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