What's happening with Every Frame a Painting? (OZU IN COLOR!)
In the past week, two Every Frame a Painting videos on different Youtube Channels? (someone posted the Isle of Dogs collab with Criterion last week, and a new one with TCM a few days ago)
Ozu in Color:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5P22nEmF3k
This video coming out three days ago is proof that the algorithm isn't perfect yet because the fact that it wasn't projected straight into my eyes as soon as it was released is shocking to me. I was just mentioning Late Autumn (my favorite Japanese movie) as an underdiscussed movie I'd love to hear covered some day on Blank Check and voila! Ask and you shall receive!
For those of you who watch this and DO love the colors in Equinox Flower as well as Fujiko Yamamoto, do yourself a favor and check out Undercurrent on Criterion Channel. The story about hand-dyed fabrics vs. machines and May Day protests feels very timely for a 1956 movie and the dyeing process is filmed beautifully in this romance. (A lot of comparisons to In the Mood for Love in LB reviews.) Also shot by Kazuo Miyagawa, who had an incredible career working on Rashomon, Ugetsu, Yojimbo, Sansho the Bailiff, Floating Weeds, Street of Shame, and more, always leaving his mark. (People watching the original Masahiro Shinoda adaptation of Silence in preparation for Marty will also get to enjoy his work)
This thread will probably amuse one or two people and be just an ignored infodump tl;dr for the rest and that's fine but it's worth it to share Undercurrent with any other superfans of Japanese cinema.