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...AUTUMN by AFTERNOON Directed by YASUJIRO OZU Screenplay by KOGO NODA and YASUJIRO OZU...
ORSON WELLES CINEMA. Wuthering Heights, 4, 8:05. The Little Foxes (Bette Davis), 6, 10. Cinema II: Late Spring (Ozu), plus Bambi Meets Godzilla, 4:15, 7:30, 9:30. MIDNITE FRI-SAT: Reefer Madness pluse The Shadow, part...
ORSON WELLES CINEMA. THURS-SAT: Assassination (Shinoda) 4, 7:45, 11:30. Pale Flower (Shinoda) 5:55, 9:45, starts SUN Late Spring (Ozu), 4, 6, 8, 10. Cinema II: thur TUES: The Great Escape (McQueen), 4, 7:15, 10:15, Midnite FRI-SAT: Some Like it Hot (Monroe) plus Chapter 3 of The Shadow...
...Ozu's film technique is instrumental in delineating both the visible and hidden contrasts that are splintering the family--and all of Japanese society. He directs transitions from one locale to another by introducing each new scene with a shot not only symbolic but prolonged to the extent that it almost becomes a still. After the opening scene in Shimonseki, the shift to Tokyo is indicated by the stark image of smokestacks against a smutty sky, and the title "an industrial neighborhood in Tokyo." Setting the mood for each episode with similarly fitting images, Ozu unrolls a cinematic parchment...
...cannot serve one's parents beyond the grave," shots her youngest son at her funeral. This is her final gift to her children, rather than a reproof. Like Ozu, she realizes that, in modern Japan, they have neither the time no the means to serve their parents, their ancestors, their family traditions. Her quiet death creates little stir, and is over so quickly that the inconvenience to her family is minimal. Left alone in the end, her husband is still surrounded by the rich web of time Ozu has managed to weave by his story. The family never speaks...