Sure, Dune (1984) is quite a jumbled mess of a film that has many problems with pacing, exposition, narrative logic and tension, and some hyper-campy performances, but it’s definitely a lot better than its reputation suggests. I’m sure the final product disappointed everyone — the fans couldn’t recognize their beloved Dune, the general audiences couldn’t understand what was going on, and Lynch couldn’t compare what was onscreen to the original vision he had — first, a two-part film and second, an epic…
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The Elephant Man 1980
If there’s one thing that is easy to forget when we concentrate on the ”weird” worlds Lynch created, it’s the underlying humanity in all of his works. In that sense he’s close to Kurt Vonnegut and Terry Pratchett in my books, an artist whose creations effectively revolve around people — the crazy worlds they inhabit and night-realms they have to wander are in a sense a by-product, a mere Rorschach test for them to see who they are (are rather, all…
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Samurai Rebellion 1967
Made three years after the colour epic Kwaidan (1964), two years after the break-up of Kurosawa and Mifune after Akahige (1965) and five years after Kobayashi’s hit Harakiri (1962) for the rival Shochiku studios, Samurai Rebellion (1967) (A more literal translation, according to Donald Richie, would be "Rebellion: Receive the Wife") is just as good as I’ve come to expect from Kobayashi. While there are similarities to past films (Mifune takes justice in his own hands, Kobayashi paints a rotten…
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Sound of the Mountain 1954
Based on Yasunari Kawabata’s novel The Sound of the Mountain, Naruse’s pitch-perfect adaptation tells the story of the Ogata family as seen through the eyes of Shingo, its aging patriarch, played by So Yamamura.
In the novel, Shingo, close to retirement, has memory lapses and nightmares. He wakes up to the sound of the mountain, and interprets these phenomena as signs of his impending death. (Naruse, however, removes all of this backstory.) The two marriages of his children are falling…
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