I always thought the Coen Brother's version was unfairly maligned--not a perfect movie, but a decent, highly affected, screwball comedy. I had no idea it was a remake of a British film, American swine that I am: I'll add it to my list of films to see.
Good thing I didn’t write about that one, then… I’m afraid I didn’t like it at all. But yes, you must see this one - one of my favourite black comedies, and with two of my favourite actors (Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers) as well!
Ealing Studios - thanks to your conversation with Alexander Kaplan I also learned about the Ealing Studios…
Which island has the drabbest weather - Britain or Japan? Truffaut’s quote … Truffaut was very much in mode here - this book is titled “Truffaut The Last interview” - contains filmography plus two interviews with Shegihiko Hasumi and Kōichi Yamada (one in Tokyo of the three of them and interviews in France with each of them)…
Thank you for reading as ever! I'm glad that you've now found Ealing Studios and that I have two new Japanese names to look up - whatever problems this platform has, I do learn about new things all the time!
Shigehiko Hasumi - it’s quite the name (he was among every thing else the person responsible in a way of introducing Yasujirō Ozu to the Western audience plus creating around his lectures and seminars at Rikkyō University the so-called Rikkyō University New Wave of Japanese cinema (Rikkyo New Wave) - Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Aoyama Shinji, Suo Masayuki among the names of prominent directors direct students of him. Yeah - he was also President of the University of Tokyo.
Actually I thought it was very funny & I don't agree that British cinema is bad...or maybe I meant it's not always been bad & it's really only shite now when it's made by privately educated class ridden morons who produce terrible scripts - Richard Curtis being a prime example. I enjoyed the remake of The Ladykillers - the Cohen brothers have made some excellent films - & it made me revisit Poe as hearing him read in a Southern accent gave his work a musicality I never knew he had.
No, I don’t think British cinema is bad either, but it’s often (unfairly) spoken of as inferior. This is absolutely one of my favourites, and Richard Curtis’s films… aren’t. (But I maintain he’s a terrific sketch and sitcom writer.)
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I always thought the Coen Brother's version was unfairly maligned--not a perfect movie, but a decent, highly affected, screwball comedy. I had no idea it was a remake of a British film, American swine that I am: I'll add it to my list of films to see.
Good thing I didn’t write about that one, then… I’m afraid I didn’t like it at all. But yes, you must see this one - one of my favourite black comedies, and with two of my favourite actors (Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers) as well!
Ealing Studios - thanks to your conversation with Alexander Kaplan I also learned about the Ealing Studios…
Which island has the drabbest weather - Britain or Japan? Truffaut’s quote … Truffaut was very much in mode here - this book is titled “Truffaut The Last interview” - contains filmography plus two interviews with Shegihiko Hasumi and Kōichi Yamada (one in Tokyo of the three of them and interviews in France with each of them)…
https://www.heibonsha.co.jp/smp/book/b182394.html
Thank you for reading as ever! I'm glad that you've now found Ealing Studios and that I have two new Japanese names to look up - whatever problems this platform has, I do learn about new things all the time!
Shigehiko Hasumi - it’s quite the name (he was among every thing else the person responsible in a way of introducing Yasujirō Ozu to the Western audience plus creating around his lectures and seminars at Rikkyō University the so-called Rikkyō University New Wave of Japanese cinema (Rikkyo New Wave) - Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Aoyama Shinji, Suo Masayuki among the names of prominent directors direct students of him. Yeah - he was also President of the University of Tokyo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigehiko_Hasumi
Actually I thought it was very funny & I don't agree that British cinema is bad...or maybe I meant it's not always been bad & it's really only shite now when it's made by privately educated class ridden morons who produce terrible scripts - Richard Curtis being a prime example. I enjoyed the remake of The Ladykillers - the Cohen brothers have made some excellent films - & it made me revisit Poe as hearing him read in a Southern accent gave his work a musicality I never knew he had.
No, I don’t think British cinema is bad either, but it’s often (unfairly) spoken of as inferior. This is absolutely one of my favourites, and Richard Curtis’s films… aren’t. (But I maintain he’s a terrific sketch and sitcom writer.)