Good Morning
This week we are showing Yasujiro Ozu’s Good Morning* (1959)* on Wednesday*, February 4th,* at 7 PM.
Here is the link to RSVP. Doors will be at 6:50 and we’ll start the show at 7:10!
Two brothers take a vow of silence in order to compel their parents to buy them a television set. Meanwhile rumor abounds that the embezzlement of a neighborhood organization’s dues has financed one family’s purchase of a new washing machine. *Good Morning * is a delightful-but-profound small comedy about fraternal twin little feelings–convenience and nuisance. It’s a movie about language and translation, mis-recognition, post-war consumerism, and the struggle to say much of meaning at all to the ones we love.
This last year we have spent a lot time with what we might call “imperfect cinema” (sometimes explicitly self-understood as such ). This week we will see nothing of the sort, as Ozu’s masterful compositions–his interiors and exteriors, his colors, his lines–are, shot-by-shot, damn near perfect.
Mutely, Stefan, Charlie, Stark