Tokyo Story at Cinematheque!

Feb 04, 2007 12:07

What: Tokyo Story - it's a movie by Yasujiro Ozu
When: Monday, February 5 @ 6:30
Where: Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West
Why:
“One of the manifest miracles of the cinema” ( The New Yorker ), TOKYO STORY figures prominently in most critics' lists of the greatest films ever made. An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude, and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality. “One of the greatest of all Japanese motion pictures. Ozu's style, now completely refined, utterly economical, creates a film which is unforgettable because it is so right, so true, and because it demands so much from an audience” (Donald Richie).

Anyone interested? It's short notice as I just checked my Cinematheque schedule now! I already missed Rules of the Game!!

Let me know ASAP and we can arrange a place to meet. Although I doubt anyone will want to go..the offer is there.
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