Growing up in the 1950s, circumstances force John from an early age to develop an intense and vivid internal world. As his character develops, this ability to transcend external circumstance through his own strength of character proves an invaluable asset.
Growing up in the 1950s, circumstances force John from an early age to develop an intense and vivid internal world. As his character develops, this ab...
John Cromer is the weakest hero in literature - unless he's one of the strongest. In 'Cedilla' he launches himself into the wider world of mainstream education, and comes upon deeper joys and subtler setbacks.
John Cromer is the weakest hero in literature - unless he's one of the strongest. In 'Cedilla' he launches himself into the wider world of mainstream ...
'Late Spring, directed and co-written by Yasujiro Ozu, was released in 1949, which makes it an old film, or a film that has been new for a long time...' So begins this remarkable essay in narrative reconstruction, which elicits a world of meanings from the reticences of one classic Japanese movie, and reserves to the very end a resolution of its mystery. Adam Mars-Jones gives a virtuoso comeback performance as that lost figure from the earl days of cinema: the film explainer. There has never been a film book like this one.
'Late Spring, directed and co-written by Yasujiro Ozu, was released in 1949, which makes it an old film, or a film that has been new for a long time.....
