JANUARY 28
Film:
Late Spring (Ozu 1949)
Blu-Ray 136
Excerpts:
Good Morning (Ozu 1959) DVD
192 (14:35 to 16:17)
In a Lonely Place (Ray 1950) DVD
752 (16:47 to 19:56)
Reading (to be done by February 3):
Robin Wood. Excerpt from “Resistance to Definiton: Ozu’s ‘Noriko’ Trilogy.” (in course
reader)
Thom Andersen. “Ozu Yasujiro: The
Master of Time.”
Paper topic (paper due February 4 by 4
p.m. Graduates email paper to gmairs@calarts.edu;
undergraduates email paper to FilmHistoryTA@gmail.com):
Discuss your response to
both Robin Wood and Thom Andersen’s essays on Ozu. Compare their approaches to
Ozu (with the understanding that Andersen is discussing the broad career and
aesthetics of Ozu while Wood is doing both that and offering a precise critique
of Late Spring, as well as the fact
that Wood’s piece is 5 or 6 times longer than Andersen’s) in light of your own
experience of Late Spring.
