Some Tweets with comparisons of Grave of the Fireflies (1988) and Ran (1985)
More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2016 (20 to 27 October)
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25 May
These Tweets contain some casual observations, finding parallels between the various worlds of Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no haka) (1988) (for Studio Ghibli) and Akira Kurosawa's Ran (1985)
Ran screened at The Arts Picturehouse (@CamPicturehouse), Cambridge, at 1.00 p.m. on Sunday 22 May 2016 (as a Sunday Classic), and Grave of the Fireflies at 9.00 p.m. on Wednesday 25 May (as part of Studio Ghibli Forever)
-> Or more than familial indifference, resentment, and scorn : see how Kurosawa's cinematography's as much about solidity v. temporal ->— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 26, 2016
-> Takahata also contrasts nature's patterns with transitory if essential needs, e.g. for food, missed if we're watching Satusko eat ->— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 26, 2016
-> As with Song of the Sea (2014) and its magical motes, we will exercise a selective bias as to when we perceive or follow the fireflies.— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 26, 2016
-> In one novel, @russellhobanorg takes great care in describing Apasmara Purusha, trampled by Shiva - with such economy of expression...— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 26, 2016
-> In this theme of doing ill when seeking to do right, one also sees The English Patient (1996) / the hedgehog scene in Beckettt's Company— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 26, 2016
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
