for Marty Cohen 1. Inverted quicksand, Black Hills stretch through a dream of our ride down to San Francisco. Back east, no landscape like this; I hadn’t guessed the chastity of solid night. What I dream I flood with light, inner, silent, specious. You drove us through from Portland, where now I am headed back. […]
Daily Archives: April 25, 2008
Hideko Takamine, a Japanese child star who grew up to be a middling actress, plays Hisako Oishi, who teaches school in a rural island village beginning in the late 1920s, in Nijushi no hitomi, from Sakae Tsuboi’s novel. Written and directed by Keisuke Kinoshita, this soft, elegiac antiwar classic spans two decades, deriving its poignancy […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Asian Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Adjudged in 2005 to be “the greatest Chinese movie ever made,” Fei Mu’s blustery, black-and-white Xiao cheng zhi chun focuses on a “not normal” […]
Dennis Grunes 