I love Kitano's collaboration with his composer Joe Hisaishi. And he also achieves remarkable results with color, by using it in a minimal but very specific way. Most of all, I love Kitano's unique sense of rhythm. Along with Hal Hartley and Jim Jarmusch, I find his work to have the most poetic and personal sense of rhythm of any filmmaker working right now.
TAKESHI KITANO (in preferential order)
1. Fireworks
2. Kids Return
3. Kikujiro
4. Sonatine
5. Boiling Point
6. Violent Cop
7. Scene at the Sea
8. Dolls
9. Brother
10. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi watched 1/13/10
11. Getting Any?
Need to re-watch:
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
Never seen:
Takeshis'
Glory to the Filmmaker!
Achilles and the Tortoise
Song(s) of the Day # 3,995 Bonnie Prince Billy
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A lie in allows me forty five minutes with Prince Billy and his latest
album *The Purple Bird*. He's an ornery critter. Very much his own man.
He's c...
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