I should add, Yojimbo is probably my favorite, but partly because it's so freaking funny.
I seen you without your clothes on before. Never thought I'd see you naked.
Mal ,'Trash'
Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape
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Frankenbuddha - Apr 03, 2008 6:05:25 pm PDT #4815 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Hayden - Apr 03, 2008 7:44:28 pm PDT #4816 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
How can that be second-tier, I ask you!
There's so much great about that movie. I just re-watched it a week or so ago (IFC had Kurosawa Saturdays in March). But it had more ups and downs (like Rashoman) than I remembered. I mean, for me, 2nd tier Kurosawa is like first tier anyone else.*
* excepting Renoir, Altman, Peckinpah, Malick (who has no 2nd tier), and a handful of others
Sue - Apr 04, 2008 3:05:23 am PDT #4817 of 10000
hip deep in pie
I have only seen Dreams and Rashomon. My experience with Kurosawa is that is doesn't translate well to a TV screen.
One of my friend's from High School refused to loan me Ran on video because he said it absolutely had to be seen on the big screen fro the first time. I still haven't seen it.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 04, 2008 3:15:56 am PDT #4818 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
One of my friend's from High School refused to loan me Ran on video because he said it absolutely had to be seen on the big screen fro the first time.
He's not wrong, although with a good home theater system and the Criterion edition it might finally be acceptable.
Gris - Apr 04, 2008 8:11:39 am PDT #4819 of 10000
Hey. New board.
(shrug) I saw it on VHS in a high school classroom on a 32" TV, and it still stands out as an amazing movie-watching experience. So may be better on the big screen, but definitely has more to it than largeness.
erikaj - Apr 04, 2008 9:12:08 am PDT #4820 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
I hate when people say stuff like that. Whether it's true or not. It's so "Check it. I'm a cineaste and I'm deep. And I have the secret handshake,"
Jessica - Apr 04, 2008 9:14:15 am PDT #4821 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think if you see Ran first on video, it would be fine, as long as it's on a decent-sized TV. But having seen it on the big screen, I have no desire at all to ever watch it on a smaller one, because the experience would be so much less.
erikaj - Apr 04, 2008 9:20:26 am PDT #4822 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't know anything about the film in question, actually. Just a little overstocked on Those Guys. It's completely fine to say "Oh! You should see it on the big screen,"although, living in a cowtown and no longer being in college, I don't know when I would.
brenda m - Apr 04, 2008 9:21:13 am PDT #4823 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I hate when people say stuff like that. Whether it's true or not. It's so "Check it. I'm a cineaste and I'm deep. And I have the secret handshake,"
What Erika said. And really, even leaving that aside, the fact that this:
One of my friend's from High School refused to loan me Ran on video because he said it absolutely had to be seen on the big screen fro the first time.
is so often followed by this:
I still haven't seen it.
makes me bristle.
Hayden - Apr 04, 2008 9:34:39 am PDT #4824 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I think Jessica's right. Watch it, but watch it on the largest screen available for god's sake. You know how people look at Jackson Pollack reprints measured in inches in books and think they know what he's about? Seeing a real, live Pollack is a little like looking into the mind of a god - maybe a minor household deity, yes, but maybe more - and it's completely impossible to appreciate the scale and scope of his original work when it's small and 2-dimensional. Ran is like this.