kei さん

1. 炎上

Japan SocietyでのKON ICHIKAWA RESTORATIONSと題した2日に渡って3本を上映するミニシリーズにて。

映画に関しては予習をしないポリシーを今回も貫徹するも、上映前のイントロで「三島由紀夫の作品『金閣寺』を原作とする作品であること」、「法曹界の了承を得れなかったのか本作内では『驟閣』といったような実在名を避けて表現されていること」、「三島本人も市川崑の作品を愛好していることを表明していたこと」等々の軽い解説を受けての鑑賞スタート。

開演と同時に感じたのはまだまだ数を観た感じのしない大映ロゴ。そんな大映作品として真っ先に思い浮かんだのは小津安二郎が大映で撮ったリメイク版「浮草」(1959) であったが、製作年をあとで見比べてみて中村鴈治郎がその頃の印象のままでそこに立っていたのに納得がいった。その他のキャストについては…市川雷蔵体験は実はこれが初かも。これからが楽しみ。抜群の安心感の仲代達矢、新珠三千代、北林谷栄に加え玉緒さんがいい感じで登場。ほくほくである。

振り返ってみるとまだまだ市川崑作品は初心者レベル、Film Forumのおかげで数年前に鑑賞できた「細雪」(1983) が唯一の既鑑賞作品であったことを改めて認識する。本作の脚本を監督が妻でもある和田夏十と書くに当たり、あまりにも原作の完成度が高いので作者本人に執筆時のノートを開示してもらうよう依頼して初めて成り立ったという下りを読んでやはり原作にも手を伸ばさざるをえないような感じがした。作風としての類似性としてはATGの「無常」(1970) を思い浮かべたりもした。

あと鑑賞後に元となった史実について読み漁っていて、新聞記者時代に本事件の記事を担当していたシバさんのことがぼんやりと思い起こされてくるのも自分にとっては面白かった次第。

[映画館(邦画)] 7点（2015-10-19 13:33:53）

2. エイリアン２

Talk about the moment of happiness!! Being able to watch perfectly restored "the original" and "the plural" two weeks in a row is what I am taking about.

It must have been tough to choose the right director for "the sequel" but James Cameron was right there with his initial hike at that time, especially when his two year earlier title, "The Terminator", promised his future success.

The storyline itself has shifted towards female side and the final round starts with the famous gong: "Get away from her, you bxxxx!" I can guarantee that you will be wide awake until the point 137 minutes later from the beginning!

[映画館(字幕なし「原語」)] 7点（2014-04-16 08:17:53）

3. エイリアン

From the line up of Film Forum's "SUMMER FESTIVAL OF FANTASY, HORROR & SCIENCE FICTION" in 2013.

It was brought to us as a DCP version and the level of restoration was so high! I felt honored to be able to watch the work in "may be better than the original" condition. The length was almost two hours but I cannot think of that many other "long" movies, which make me forget the sense of time. The high tense of the last half of story lasts until the very end.

Sigourney Weaver was at 30 years old when this was released and that was the best timing to shoot this role "Ripley", a young, beautiful, intelligent and yet athletic lady. That also reminds me that the next timing I was impressed by her beauty in 1995 released "Copycat", which is 16 years later from this one!

It looks like this was director Ridley Scott's first commercial big success title. By skimming through his list of works, I feel so powerless. There are still too many titles I have to conquer with!

[映画館(字幕なし「原語」)] 8点（2014-04-16 08:12:38）

4. エデンの東(1955)

A masterpiece at MoMA theatre I stumbled into during a weekend.

It was actually intended as a birthday celebration for the film director of this title, Elia Kazan. This rare last name forced me to do several clicks and.... voila! My hunch was right. It was connected to two generations later talent, Zoe Kazan, who was familiar in "Meek's Cutoff" and a theatrical work, "A Behanding in Spokane" with Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, and Anthony Mackie. In other words, she is one of rare Hollywood stars I have seen in live format.

Having said those all kind of trivia, I totally understood why this has been called as one of three James Dean's greatest movies. He was too perfect to play such a boy with very naive and sad feelings.

To fully understand the reason of title, I guess I have to be a bit more familiar with the bible...

[映画館(字幕なし「原語」)] 6点（2014-04-10 20:20:01）