by Swapnil Dhruv Bose
One of the most striking films to have come out of the Japanese New Wave, “Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets” is avant-garde writer turned filmmaker Shūji Terayama’s debut feature and is based on his eponymous book. Although he went on to make other masterpieces like “Pastoral: To Die in the Country” (1974) and “Glass Labyrinth” (1979), this brilliant work of experimental anarchy remains the apotheosis of Terayama’s unapologetically original artistic vision.
Following in the footsteps of Jean-Luc Godard and anticipating the non-linear surrealness of directors like David Lynch, Terayama constructs unforgettable vignettes which blind the viewer with their pathos. It is almost pointless to talk about the film’s plot because time and causality are rendered insignificant when confronted with the underlying spiritual anguish. The protagonist introduces himself to us in a spectacular opening monologue where he stares straight into...
One of the most striking films to have come out of the Japanese New Wave, “Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets” is avant-garde writer turned filmmaker Shūji Terayama’s debut feature and is based on his eponymous book. Although he went on to make other masterpieces like “Pastoral: To Die in the Country” (1974) and “Glass Labyrinth” (1979), this brilliant work of experimental anarchy remains the apotheosis of Terayama’s unapologetically original artistic vision.
Following in the footsteps of Jean-Luc Godard and anticipating the non-linear surrealness of directors like David Lynch, Terayama constructs unforgettable vignettes which blind the viewer with their pathos. It is almost pointless to talk about the film’s plot because time and causality are rendered insignificant when confronted with the underlying spiritual anguish. The protagonist introduces himself to us in a spectacular opening monologue where he stares straight into...
- 1/27/2021
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
Sheffield Doc/Fest kicks off with a film on Russia's feminist punk collective, an at-times unsubtle study of naivety forced into acuity
The best translation of the word "pussy", explains a man halfway through the opening night film of Sheffield Doc/Fest, is "deranged vagina". Other definitions include "kitten" and "uterus". He pussyfoots round actually saying the word, this man, sweaty in woolly beard and vast hat and "Orthodoxy or Death" T-shirt, and, when he does, it's impossible not to recall Sean Connery. Vowels, it turns out, can sound Scottish, said with a Russian accent.
One wouldn't have thought there was a lot more to goggle at in the saga of the feminist punk collective, three members of which were sentenced to two years in penal camps after a 40-second performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in February 2012. And yet directors Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin spike their...
The best translation of the word "pussy", explains a man halfway through the opening night film of Sheffield Doc/Fest, is "deranged vagina". Other definitions include "kitten" and "uterus". He pussyfoots round actually saying the word, this man, sweaty in woolly beard and vast hat and "Orthodoxy or Death" T-shirt, and, when he does, it's impossible not to recall Sean Connery. Vowels, it turns out, can sound Scottish, said with a Russian accent.
One wouldn't have thought there was a lot more to goggle at in the saga of the feminist punk collective, three members of which were sentenced to two years in penal camps after a 40-second performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in February 2012. And yet directors Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin spike their...
- 6/13/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
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