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Category Archives: my favorite films
re “Under the Sun” (a film about North Korea)
Last month, I saw Under the Sun (2015) a documentary film about North Korea, five times within a period of a few days! Each time I went back I saw something I had missed. The film, in Korean, was … Continue reading
“On Aesthetic and Cultural Appreciation of Literature and Film, and My Favorite Directors” (小津安二郎は日本の映画監督・脚本家)
A full downloadable Word document is below. ***************************************************** 以下、このエッセイの日本語への翻訳の一部を参照してください。 (Japanese translation of my comments regarding the director Yasujirō Ozu is appended below.) Roger W. Smith “On Aesthetic and Cultural Appreciation of Literature and … Continue reading
Posted in aesthetics, cinema, literature, my favorite films, my reading; observations on reading
Tagged Au hasard Balthasar, お茶漬けの味, Bill Dalzell, Carl Theodore Dreyer, 秋刀魚の味, 秋日和, 麦秋, Herman Melville Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Philbrick, Pier Parolo Pasolini, Robert Bresson, Robert Bresson Au Hasard Balthasar, Roger Smith, Roger W. Smith, Sergei Eisenstein, William S. Dalzell, Yasujiro Ozu, 小津 安二郎, 晩春, 東京物語
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