![]() ![]() ![]() Takeshi Kitano (left) takes a reluctant summer road trip with Yusuke Sekiguchi in Kikujiro. ![]() Kikujiro Rental: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Vudu, etc., from $2.99 ★★★★☆ Office Kitano The film is the fifth of Rohmer’s six-film “Comedies and Proverbs” series clueless distributors also gave it the title Summer, which is not to be confused with Rohmer’s 1996 A Summer’s Tale (Kanopy, FilmStruck), which was part of his “Tales of the Four Seasons” series. The title comes from comes from Jules Verne and describes a very rarely seen phenomenon: the final beam of light from the setting sun, said to have certain powers. Delphine might have been something of an annoying whiner in lesser hands, but Rohmer makes true attempts to understand her. Rohmer’s films are dialog-heavy, but the dialog is used to follow characters as they try to unpack their most baffling and indecipherable feelings. She makes several other attempts at a vacation, but finds she doesn’t fit in anywhere. The insecure Delphine (Marie Rivière) finds herself stuck when her traveling companion cancels on her. Marie Rivière has summer vacation troubles in Eric Rohmer’s The Green Ray.Įric’s Rohmer’s Le Rayon Vert, or The Green Ray (1986), is another bittersweet summer vacation movie, a last chance at some fun before the fall starts. The Green Ray FilmStruck ★★★★☆ Orion Classics It revels in time and place, like a time-traveler sitting back and enjoying everything, and, even after 116 minutes, you don’t want it to end. As with the film’s spiritual predecessor, Dazed and Confused (1993), Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) is virtually plotless, though Linklater’s observant, thoughtful camera makes every scene fascinating and hilarious. Unlike the meatheads in a deliberately dumb comedy, these guys are a great combination of wise and naïve, sowing their wild oats but also laying the groundwork for an effective, bonded ball team. The group goes to a country bar, a punk rock club, and a party thrown by theater nerds they drink great quantities of beer, pick up girls, and occasionally practice some baseball. Blake Jenner plays the freshman who must be introduced and inducted into all the crazy antics, and Glen Powell plays the spiritual leader, charmingly verbose and occasionally smoking a pipe. Set in the final days of the summer of 1980, just before school starts, this ensemble comedy, about a college baseball team living together in a raucous frat house, unfolds in the spirit of National Lampoon’s Animal House, Meatballs, and Wet Hot American Summer (see below). ★★★★☆ Paramountīlake Jenner (left) and Glen Powell are college ballplayers having a ball in Everybody Wants Some!! In Japanese with English subtitles.Įverybody Wants Some!! Amazon Prime, Hulu. Michiyo Aratama and Yoko Tsukasa and the great Setsuko Hara play Manbei’s daughters. His filmmaking style seems to have embraced the difficulties of life rather than raging against them, his films impart a sublime sense of peace. Ozu handles the inevitable confrontation between the mistress and the children not with soap-opera bluntness, but with grace and intelligence. It’s a lovingly bittersweet tale with bursts of great joy mixed with sadness. His grown children worry about him as he acts childishly, even sneaking off to spend time with his old mistress. It tells the story of a widowed old man Manbei (Ganjiro Nakamura) whose sake brewery is in financial trouble. Ozu’s penultimate film and one of his few shot in color, The End of Summer (1961) is like a mini-vacation, a little sad, but relaxing. Grown daughters Setsuko Hara (left) and Yoko Tsukasa worry about their irresponsible father in Yasujiro Ozu’s The End of Summer.Īrguably the greatest of all Japanese filmmakers, Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963), worked again and again with the same actors and the same co-writer, used the same style (low angles, straight-ahead, back-and-forth shots during conversations, very little moving camera), and even the same text-over-burlap opening titles. The End of Summer (FilmStruck) ★★★★★ The Criterion Collection ![]()
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