Saturday, June 29, 2024
Farewell My Concubine
- Commentary: Under construction. I believe I have purchased the restored, almost three hour, cut of this movie. I did lots of digging and I hope I found (and purchased) the restoration. Considering that it hasn't yet been released and won't be until two thirds of the way, I'm pretty sure I've got the uncut version. We'll see. If you're curious about to what I'm referring, after reading Ebert's original review, linked to the title of this post, read the follow-up review written almost exactly 10 years later by Brian Tallerico wherein he explains the shameful Hollywood history of this extraordinary film (and, as it turns out, many others).
More, of course, later.
The table above is a scandalously abbreviated list of all the actors in this movie. I will be fleshing it out later.Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Leslie Cheung Cheng Dieyi/Xiaodouzi Zhang Fengyi Xiaoshitou/Duan Xiaolou Gong Li Juxian Ge You Yuan Shiqing Lü Qi Master Guan Ying Da Na Kun Yidi Eunuch Zhang Zhi Yitong Saburo Aoki Lei Han Xiaosi Li Dan Laizi Jiang Wenli Mother of Xiaodouzi Wu Dai-wai Red Guard
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 1993
Directed by Chen Kaige.
Labels: Criterion8
Drive My Car
- Commentary: Under construction.
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Hidetoshi Nishijima Yūsuke Kafuku Tōko Miura Misaki Watari Reika Kirishima Oto Kafuku Park Yu-rim Lee Yoo-na Jin Dae-yeon Gong Yoon-soo Sonia Yuan Janice Chang Ahn Hwitae Ryu Jeong-eui Perry Dizon Roy Lucelo
Isaac Feldberg discusses this movie with director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi here at RogerEbert.com. You'll find, in fact, more than a few articles, there, on this movie and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's films.
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 2021
Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.
Labels: Criterion8
Late Spring
- Commentary: Under construction.
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Chishū Ryū Shukichi Somiya Setsuko Hara Noriko Somiya Yumeji Tsukioka Aya Kitagawa Haruko Sugimura Masa Taguchi Hohi Aoki Katsuyoshi Taguchi Jun Usami Shuichi Hattori Kuniko Miyake Akiko Miwa Masao Mishima Jo Onodera Yoshiko Tsubouchi Kiku Onodera Yōko Katsuragi Misako Toyoko Takahashi Shige Jun Tanizaki Seizo Hayashi
Yôko Benisawa played the Teahouse Proprietess, who figured prominently in the film.
On November 18, 2019, Wael Khairy wrote this meditation on the films of Yasujirō Ozu. If you have a high appreciation of Ozu's work you might find it interesting to read.
One of Roger Ebert's Great Movies.
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 1949
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu.
Labels: chishū-ryū, Criterion8, dramaG, film-art2, yasujirō-ozu
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Another Round
- Commentary: Under construction.
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Mads Mikkelsen Martin Thomas Bo Larsen Tommy Magnus Millang Nikolaj Lars Ranthe Peter Maria Bonnevie Anika Helene Reingaard Neumann Amalie Susse Wold The Principal Magnus Sjørup Jonas Silas Cornelius Van Kasper Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt Sebastian Martin Greis-Rosenthal Overtjener Frederik Winther Rasmussen Malthe
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 2020
Directed by Thomas Vinterberg.
Labels: black-comedy, dramaG, mads-mikkelsen
The Hunt
- Commentary: Under construction.
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Mads Mikkelsen Lucas Mads Mikkelsen Theo Annika Wedderkopp Klara Lasse Fogelstrøm Marcus Susse Wold Grethe Anne Louise Hassing Agnes Lars Ranthe Bruun Alexandra Rapaport Nadja
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 2012
Directed by Thomas Vinterberg.
Labels: mads-mikkelsen, psychological3
Cloud Atlas
- Commentary: Under construction.
The protagonist of each story is indicated in Italic Bold
Actor Pacific Islands, 1849 Cambridge/Edinburgh, 1936 San Francisco, 1973 London, 2012 Neo Seoul, 2144 Big Island, 106 winters after The Fall (2321) Tom Hanks Dr. Henry Goose Hotel Manager Isaac Sachs Dermot Hoggins Cavendish Look-alike Actor Zachry Bailey Halle Berry Native Woman Jocasta Ayrs Luisa Rey Indian Party Guest Ovid Meronym Jim Broadbent Captain Molyneux Vyvyan Ayrs ── Timothy Cavendish Korean Musician Prescient Jim Sturgess Adam Ewing Poor Hotel Guest Megan's Dad Highlander Hae-Joo Chang Adam Ben Whishaw Cabin Boy Robert Frobisher Record Store Clerk Georgette Cavendish ── Tribesman Doona Bae Tilda Ewing ── Megan's Mom
Mexican Woman── Sonmi-451,
Sonmi-351,
Sonmi Prostitute── Hugo Weaving Haskell Moore Tadeusz Kesselring Bill Smoke Nurse Noakes Boardman Mephi Old Georgie Hugh Grant Rev. Giles Horrox Hotel Heavy Lloyd Hooks Denholme Cavendish Seer Rhee Kona Chief Susan Sarandon Madame Horrox ── ── Older Ursula Yosouf Suleiman Abbess Keith David Kupaka ── Joe Napier ── An-kor Apis Prescient James D'Arcy ── Young Rufus Sixsmith Old Rufus Sixsmith Nurse James Archivist Park ── Zhou Xun ── ── Talbot-Hotel Manager ── Yoona-939 Rose David Gyasi Autua ── Lester Rey ── ── Duophysite Robert Fyfe Old Salty Dog ── ── Mr. Meeks ── Prescient
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 2012
Directed by Lana Wachowski, Lily Wachowski, Tom Tykwer.
Labels: science-fiction2
