S6.14 (166, or maybe 819th?): Tokyo Story
Tokyo Story
Tokyo Story is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in the history of cinema.
Japanese Cinema: Ozu’s Tatami Shot
In the Japanese film industry, a well-known cinematographic technique is the tatami shot. It is a unique style invented by Yasujiro Ozu, in which the camera is placed at a low height, supposedly at the eye level of a person kneeling on a tatami mat.
The Greatest Films of All Time
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, 1975, by Chantal Akerman
- Vertigo, 1958, Alfred Hitchcock
- Citizen Kane, 1941, Orson Welles
- Tokyo Story, 1953, Yasujirō Ozu
- In the Mood for Love, 2000, Wong Kar Wai
- 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968, Stanley Kubrick
- Beau travail, 1998, Claire Denis
- Mulholland Dr., 2001, David Lynch
- Man with a Movie Camera, 1929, Dziga Vertov
- Singin' in the Rain, 1951, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Spoil all the films!
''A lot of people complained about this shirt, but I tried to make most of the references vague enough so that you'd need to have seen the movie to understand them. Well, except ...''-- Artist Olly Moss, on the Spoilt design.
Musée des Beaux Arts, By W. H. Auden
Inspired by Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c. 1560, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Written in 1938, this is one of the better-known examples of ekphrasis, or poems inspired by artworks, up there with Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and Rilke’s “Archaic Torso of Apollo.”