Kirk - completely understood what you meant. At work I try to post something short and quick, then I’m usually out and seeing a film and by the time I get home to post it is late and I feel that whatever I’m writing is blather. Even now I’m writing this after midnight while watching Cowboy Bebop so if I tried to put add my views on something like Rublev it would seem pretentious.
Hey, my best field is an econ major.
Seriously, we met because it seemed like the only two people in college that thought there was more to life than our major. It’s the same with all aspects of art, not just film, many people I know have that mainstream only mentality. That’s why I love it when I meet someone who has lots of interests.
Stray Dog was really good. I’m 6 films into the 13 film Kurosawa festival here and loving every second of it. After seeing Drunken Angel last week I was expecting another good film that still hinted at everyone’s potential. I was nicely surprised. I’m also reading the book “The Emperor and the Wolf” and the second on Stray Dog includes and interesting discussion of Kurosawa and his cameraman walking through the slums with a hidden camera to get the walking through the crowd shots.