Comments on: 952 (54). Shin heike monogatari / New Tales of the Taira Clan (1955, Kenji Mizoguchi)

By: carnival cruise deals

carnival cruise deals — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:19:59 +0000

I very much hope your brilliant video essays will be back online very soon.

By: Explosives Automation

Explosives Automation — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:00:04 +0000

the director should have collaborated the story more, i think there's a boring part in this moviewell i'll watch it for myself to know about it

By: ball gag

ball gag — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:17:29 +0000

Though the movie is heavy on plot and crowd scenes, it still didn't lose its focus on the immediate circle of the main aspect. The director has laid this one very brilliantly, and I'll definitely share this with my friends to give them more insights about the Japanese history.

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California adoption — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:14:34 +0000

14-year-old sister Suzu was put up for adoption and eventually sold to a geisha house, that's illegal child are not things and animals that can be sold..

By: Michael Kerpan

Michael Kerpan — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:10:23 +0000

While there are moments in this that I appreciate (usually ones that involve the rarely used female characters)< i find this a remarkably clunky film overall.

Dennis Sutton's gibe about the quality of the cinematography strikes me as remarkably ignorant. I doubt that the hard-working and conscientious Miyagawa was _able_ to do a lazy job. And how does Sutton know what the colors in this film originally looked like (or were intended to look like — if the film stock simply did not work out as well as planned). The comparison to Kurosawa is also rather silly. — since Kurosawa didn't tackle filming in color for another 15 years or so (when Japan had far more reliable color film stock). And Kinugasa's rather gaudy use of color in Gate of Hell never won much praise in Japan (even if it did impress rather naive Western film critics).

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:10:36 +0000

Good deal. Congrats on getting your video essays restored to YouTube, by the way! “Learn about Copyright & Fair Use” is at the top of my list of things to do as soon as I finish my degree (mired in the history of the book at the moment); hopefully I'll be able to be of some use the next time this sort of thing goes down.

By: alsolikelife

alsolikelife — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:30:30 +0000

good question Andy. Seems that a number of these articles (possibly all of them) come from other sources, most notably the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. I've noticed that a lot of entries on Film Reference are identical to passages quoted on the director pages on They Shoot Pictures Don't They with the IDFF cited as the source.

At the bottom of the Film Reference main page the site copyright is attributed to Advameg Inc. If you go to their site http://www.advameg.com/ you'll see that they operate a number of reference-themed sites, from medical to business to fashion.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:17:14 +0000

Do you know the story behind Film Reference.com? Who runs the site, where the content comes from, etc.?