http://theseventhart.info/2009/04/25/flashback-53/ "Cinema does not cry. Cinema does not comfort us. It is with us. It is us" Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:11:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://theseventhart.info/2009/04/25/flashback-53/#comment-2289 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:46:44 +0000 http://theseventhart.info/?p=1848#comment-2289 [...] us for life – either as a hero or as a coward (“merely human” would be the euphemism). Sansho the Bailiff (1954), even with its heavy pathos, is a melodrama whereas The Dark Knight (2008), despite its [...]

]]> http://theseventhart.info/2009/04/25/flashback-53/#comment-1492 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:19:43 +0000 http://theseventhart.info/?p=1848#comment-1492 [...] no better than a nanny for his kids. Like Mizoguchi (whom he admires, according to his essays) in Sansho the Bailiff (1954), Ray uses his mise en scène to express more than what the script does. But unlike Mizoguchi [...]

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