This film could NEVER be made today. I wish instead of realistic backgrounds all movies were made at weird angles and clearly on sets. Like I don’t know if backgrounds get as good as some of silent cinema, and then some of the awesome backgrounds in 1970s/80s Japanese cinema like Kwaidan and Tokyo Drifter.
Saw this with a live organist accompaniment, incredible. There was a raffle before the film and my loss has left me heartbroken
This summer I've been pretty depressed, kinda slummed out and sun wearied. I spent too many hours laying on a couch and staring at the walls of my basement apartment. Just hours gone. Silence and white paint and nothing to nothing.
While camping this summer friends asked me why I was memorizing a poem. I said because I liked memorizing poetry. Thelonius Monk is asked by a frenchman why he had his piano in his kitchen, to which Monk says…
Before the film started someone yelled “can I get a screen test? There seems to be a reflection on the screen” to which someone left of me said “it’s just a shadow from the light behind the door.”
A lot of moving thoughts in this film, choosing to be free, accepting that choice when one knows it leaves you vulnerable to violence. Trying to find the quote but they mention a poem, something like “one must achieve life before being ready to die.”
