Robert Altman on RASHOMON by Kurosawa

also available:
Sidney Lumet on 'RAN'
vimeo.com/24116562

[@BlueHooloovoo]

It's so cool seeing one legendary director talking about another legendary directors work.

[@alcd6333]

Rashomon is one of the all-time greats. You're left wondering what is the truth - and that's the whole point.

[@f.u.allthosecriticallystup9099]

Al Cd Hollywood will remake this movie next year by Universal Studios..

[@random-accessmemory9201]

F.U. all those Critically Stupid Where is it? It’s already 2020?

[@Guigley]

There are few things I love more than watching and listening to directors just talking about cinema.

[@Gargleon]

Fun to watch Altman talk about film like this

[@122josh]

One of the greatest and most revolutionary films ever made Kurosawa is a master

[@pinz2022]

Artists do not steal. Artists are influenced.

[@hachidori1065]

thank you for the softball pitch! (^_^) ... " Good artists copy, great artists steal. " - Picasso

[@timtrek]

thanks for the cliche reply everyon'e heard a million times already!

[@random-accessmemory9201]

hachidori 106 I thought that’s Steve Jobs’?

[@johnfraraccio99]

@@hachidori1065 "...and tired artists steal from themselves." But Picasso didn't say what's attributed to him; according to Quote Investigator (.com) no one did.

[@IndiegroundFilms]

@@johnfraraccio99 Well, someone did.

[@charlespeterson3798]

I got here by way of " Cry me a River", sung by Julie London,written by her husband, a friend of Altman who had three lines in M.A.S.H. God what great lines, what a great movie.

[@jonathanmelia]

Right: "That's not how I remember it." Kurosawa very influential on some of the best directors: anyone notice how the walk of the hunter in the wood at the beginning of RASHOMON is very similarly shot to E.T.'s woodland walk at the beginning of that film...?

[@texshelters]

This is what I consider Rashomon the greatest movie of all time, and Altman explains it well. More than that, any movie that encourages me to think beyond the screen and doesn't give me answers but gives me a lot of questions, is a great film. PTxS

[@jamesbaxterfromax]

texshelters it cant be your favourite film. it belongs to me

[@Philiopantheon82]

Check out Hungarian director' movies like Turin horse or Tarkovsky's stalker, also Ikiro another Japanese masterpiece

[@t.macrocosm1831]

Rashomon is based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s literature. He also wrote a short story called Rashomon, but the movie is based on Akutagawa’s Yabu No Naka (In the bush).

[@KeyserTheRedBeard]

wonderful upload Dinuk Wijeratne. I smashed that thumbs up on your video. Always keep up the quality work.

[@lmaka1]

Fantastic film criticism of Kurosawa in and of itself. But even more interesting in how it relates to his own film direction.

[@JohnSpawn1]

I think there was a quote by Homer making fun of and at the same time paying tribute to Rashomon.

[@charlie-obrien]

"That's not how I remember it..." - H Simpson

[@tihai]

classy he is! btw there is a fantastic book of interviews with him called 'altman on altman'

[@robbiejohnson2011]

Why did you have to die, Robert. Now we're stuck with Avatar 2-5!!

[@kdizzle901]

James Cameron is a genius in his own right Avatar 2 was quite the experience

[@detriplea]

Highly respect RA, he's among a few directors who are just plain honest, lacking the ego facade most director shield themselves in. RIP Robert Altman

[@linkbiff1054]

He trashed both Titanic and American Beauty, calling them the worst films he's ever seen. Altman could have created Titanic, and there would be no difference, so he must've been really jealous of James Cameron.

[@DarkAngelEU]

Titanic is a shitty movie but American Beauty? Really?

[@randywhite3947]

link biff or maybe he just didn’t like it

[@randywhite3947]

Google made me do it different strokes for different folks

[@TheChannelofaDisappointedMan]

Very penetrating and accessible comments.

[@tihai]

me too :)

[@dante666jt]

The greatest truth There isn't one

[@BrandonTWills]

Rashomon effect = relativity = "reality" = emotion

[@mikeisapro]

Brings to mind mystic Robert Anton Wilson's idea that we all live in our own "reality tunnels". "You are the master who makes the grass green", and "the map is not the territory".

[@ramonvalencia5719]

Marge: You like "Rashomon." Homer: That's not how I remember it.

[@tihai]

awesome :) does she make films too?

[@LorentJalabert]

altman was the greatest

[@SimranSingh-li2qz]

Hollywood has lost its creativity in making oft repeated thrillers bloody gory films

[@carlnilssonyoung8961]

Kurosawa puts rashomon in dictionary

[@umdisc64]

Ah yes, the movie about the "subjectivity of truth." It isn't about that at all and I won't reveal here what is its premise.

[@PaulMcCaffreyfmac]

Watch Rashomon. Read The Alexandria Quartet. Think again.

[@qp33wing]

ハハハハ;-)でもどっちも好きだよ。I like boss film

[@CrAZychicke]

bizarrest movie ever, but interesting nonetheless

[@isisandgranta]

He is wrong to criticise Mifune's character acting. Japanese people (who reject, or are ejected from the stifling conformist society) are like this. They are uncivil out of control personalities, animalistic and strangely attractive.

[@0oidiedinatimemachineo024]

lmao the japanese are not anti conformity they are some of the biggest conformists there are in a certain way. They have a very strict society.

[@mikeisapro]

The commentary I heard on the DVD explained that it was done on purpose, but I can't remember the explanation the critic gave. But I'm pretty sure Kurosawa wasn't intending to comment on the whole of "Japanese people" by directing the character in that way.

[@christinapierce8476]

Dionysus I will say that Kurosawa likely aimed for a theatrical style with his characters. That being said, Japan (or at least, traditional Japan without its industrialized elements), and indeed most of the world today, are members of a collectivist, agonistic society, which means that uniformity is key, and that honor/shame is a central social dynamic. People in these societies possess a dramatic orientation that appears strange to those who live in a Western individualistic society. This characteristic may have also been an important influence on Kurosawa’s characters. If you would like to know more about this subject, I suggest the following books: “The Japanese Mind” by Roger Davies and Osamu Ikeno, and “Honour, Family and Patronage” by J. K. Campbell.

[@theodorerooseveltsantlers270]

I'm hopeful one day Hollywood will get back to making strictly American films. You do not need to make a film inclusive for every country. Example: When Kurosawa was a kid he watched John Ford films that were strictly American and Kurosawa's films were strictly Japanese. Altman points out that a person from Japan will see a Kurosawa film differently from an American, just as an American will see a Western or Film Noir movie differently than someone in Japan or elsewhere.

[@drainel9707]

Thats funny you say that, because Kurosawa was criticized in japan for being too american. Wheras Ozu is strictly japanese

[@charlie-obrien]

We all live in the same world. What small differences that are applied do not nearly equal the mountainous connections we all share.