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...Take a shot of a woman walking down a street: We hear the click of her heels, see men’s heads turn, and at the same time know through her facial expression or a voiceover what’s going through her mind. Films like Yasujirõ Ozu??s Noriko trilogy of the ’40s, New Wave features starring Monica Vitti and Anna Karina, or the defiant ’80s flick “Thelma and Louise” prove that it’s possible to represent the inner life...
Wednesday, March 16. Ozu??s An Autumn Afternoon (Japan, 1962). 9 p.m. Harvard Film Archive. Tickets $8; students and seniors $6. Tickets at the Harvard Film Archive...
There have also been productive interferences: The French New Wave loved American film noir; Yasujiro Ozu??s Tokyo Story takes off from Leo McCarey; Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo morphed into Sergio Leone’s For a Few Dollars More...
...Ozu??s decision to stay silent after many of his colleagues had transferred over to sound technology, Connor explains that there are two kinds of directors: “One, those who say, ‘Here comes this technology, I’ve got to use it and master it immediately,’ and two, those who say, ‘I want to wait for it to be right...
...Ozu??s films, his most famous is Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari), a film about the ungrateful and indifferent children of an elderly couple who, close to death, go to visit their children in the city. Connor asked his students to watch the film and says that the beauty of the retrospective was that he could direct them to dozens more to watch on their own time...