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Roger Ebert doing commentary for Criterion's Floating Weeds!!!!

 
Old 04-15-03, 07:00 PM
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Roger Ebert doing commentary for Criterion's Floating Weeds!!!!

Just found this out right now on Criterion's website. Here is the exact paragraph:

Esteemed film critic Roger Ebert will contribute audio commentary to Criterion's upcoming DVD release of Yasujiro Ozu's classic Floating Weeds (Ukigusa, 1959). Also included in this release will be Ozu's original, silent The Story of Floating Weeds (Ukigusa monogatari, 1934). The release of Criterion's Floating Weeds will follow the the celebration of Ozu's centennial at this year's New York Film Festival.
AWESOME!!!! When is the New York Film Festival?
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While he does provide a lot of insight he tends to talk really fast and repeat things way too often.

i.e. In his commentary for Cit. Kane he constantly repeated, "notice the witness in the right hand corner." "See how low the ceilings are." "Background fades out, foreground fades in, background fades in, foreground fades out."
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The 41st New York Film Festival will be held October 3 - 19, 2003.

Amazing what 10 seconds with Google can do.

Here's their website: http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
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Good news. Worthy of four exclamation points? Probably not.
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This is good news. Some Ozu release dates would be even better news.
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Originally posted by MurraySiskind
Some Ozu release dates would be even better news.
I think July is probably a good guess.
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this is Ebert's 3rd commentary right? I own Citizen Kane & Dark City for Ebert's commentary alone, the movies weren't that great to me, but I am a huge Ebert mark.
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I agree with JJE Ebert knows his stuff when it comes to movies..I loved his commentary on CK also..

I heard he's doing another one for the re-release of Casablanca this fall..Course it could be a rumour~!
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I didn't realize that he did a commentary for Citizen Kane, I'll add that to my wish list.

I already have Dark City.
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I'll have to save up then. I haven't listened to Ebert's commentary in Dark City (which is a shame for me), but his commentary in Citizen Kane is simply awesome.
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Does this have a release date yet?
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Originally posted by JJE-187
Does this have a release date yet?
From what I understand they're having a sort of Ozu retrospective in NY in the winter. I think it's being released after that. But I don't think there's a specific date yet. I'm looking forward to it though.
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I'll have to save up then. I haven't listened to Ebert's commentary in Dark City (which is a shame for me), but his commentary in Citizen Kane is simply awesome.
I just watched Dark City and listened to Ebert's commentary last week. I have to say I love listening to him talk about film. Whether I agree with all of his reviews or not I have enormous respect for his film knowledge. I wish he did more commentaries.
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