David Bordwell on GOOD MORNING
Good Morning
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In the following interview, conducted in February 2017, film scholar David Bordwell analyzes the evolution of director Yasujiro Ozu’s style by comparing the 1932 silent film I WAS BORN, BUT . . . with the filmmaker’s own 1959 reworking of the story, GOOD MORNING.
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I Was Born, But . . .
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1932 • Japan
One of Ozu's most popular films, I WAS BORN, BUT . . . is a blithe portrait of the financial and psychological toils of one family, as told from the rascally point of view of a couple of stubborn little boys. For two brothers, the daily struggles of bullie...
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A Straightforward Boy
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1929 • Japan
A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle in this fragment, presented without a score, from a film whose full version has been lost.
