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Cult Of Criterion: Demon Pond
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13 New Blu-Rays Worth Trick-or-Treating For
We thought we’d celebrate that sensation by picking out our very favorite new home video releases for this Halloween, a mixture of obscure favorites, outright classics, near-hits from some of our favorite modern filmmakers and a new movies that gets a terrific home video treatment. Grab some candy, your comfiest pajamas and settle in for the night with these gems.
Janus“Demon Pond”
One of the season’s must-have titles is “Demon Pond,” a bizarro, late-‘70s nightmare from Masahiro Shinoda, whose “Pale Flower” and “Double Suicide” are already a part of the Criterion Collection. Shinodaupdates..
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By Tsutomu Yamazaki (in Itami Juzo no Eiga, 2007)
Translated by Steve Schlossstein
I appeared in Itami Juzo’s first three pictures – The Funeral, Tampopo, and A Taxing Woman. But after we made The Quiet Life (Shizukana Seikatsu), I worked in no more of his films.
Which is not to say that I left Itami-san as a result of personal arguments or quarrels – not at all. As proof empirical of this, he still kept coming as a spectator to see me act on stage, and when we would go drinking together after one of my performances, he would often spend the night at my house or I at his. Itami would never gossip about me behind my back; he was not that sort of person.
But after Marusa no Onna (A Taxing Woman), I never appeared in any of his films again, even The Quiet Life, one of his last. I suppose that was because given his role as producer and director and mine as a performing actor, our interpretative approaches seemed to be increasingly in conflict. For myself, as a stage actor, I was used to creating or capturing the roles I played by “imagining” or “photographing” a character in my mind. In stage productions, you rely on your fellow actors for inspiration, too, in addition to the director and his staff. Like the weather, they’re always
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