"Osaka Elegy" is the first film of the revered master Kenji Mizoguchi that began to establish his legacy as an important cinematic voice in Imperial Japan.
Typical of his later works, the story centers around the tragic and absurd social and financial circumstances of a young woman. Working as a phone line operator for a pharmaceutical company, she is continually torn between her own social respectability and her financial circumstances. Her father, fired for stealing from the company, can no…
Still diving into Miyazaki, but this is absolutely one of the best I have seen from him. Extraordinarily emotional storytelling with a mythological style that immediately resonates with me. Smart use of allegory and visual representations of its themes. Highly enjoyed it, and found it very powerful.
I did not expect much from this movie and I got even less than I expected. Back in 2019 when the first Joker movie came out it was a massive cultural event. The film promised to be a gritty retelling of a legendary comic-book character that would "boldly" deviate from the stylistic trends of other movies centered in a superhero canon. Todd Phillips set out in the project to depict a society in mental decay and transform the clown prince…
Kubrick's adaptation is exceedingly interesting for a number of reasons, the first being obviously that the source material is one of the most controversial novels of the 20th century, a novel that centers directly on the sexual exploitation of a 12 year old girl. So the fact that Kubrick tried to adapt a deeply reviled text, a text reviled mostly by people that have in truth never read or even considered reading it, in a culture and film environment that…
