Images of the day, 4/23/12

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• D Cairns says:

  March 23, 2012 at 4:00 pm

  Took me ages to recall what the con­nec­tion was between these images…

• Jaime N. Christley says:

  March 23, 2012 at 8:45 pm

  Lil help? I haven’t seen CHRYSANTHEMUM in ages so the con­nec­tion isn’t appar­ent to me.

• Marc Basque says:

  March 23, 2012 at 11:20 pm

  Might it be the man’s reflec­tion in the mir­ror, along with the tele­vi­sion mon­it­or that’s mir­ror­ing Blomkvist?

• jbryant says:

  March 24, 2012 at 2:43 am

  Totally off top­ic, Glenn, but I thought you might be inter­ested to learn that Lena Dunham seems to have come around on James Mason, as a man, if not an act­or. She recently tweeted this: “…I’ve been reg­u­larly dream­ing about sex with James Mason. Like, in his later years. I have no idea what interests me.”
  Maybe now she’ll give BIGGER THAN LIFE a second chance.

• Oliver_C says:

  March 24, 2012 at 5:48 am

  I prefer the ori­gin­al Roueché art­icle to Ray’s film, but don’t want to have sex with Christopher Olsen. Or somesuch.

• Glenn Kenny says:

  March 24, 2012 at 11:30 am

  @ Marc Basque: It’s that, to a cer­tain extent, and also the way both dir­ect­ors place mul­tiple frames with­in the frame…
  @ J. Bryant: I missed that tweet, even though I fol­low Ms. Dunham. How interesting.
  I remem­ber read­ing a short front-of-the-book Q&A with Mason in Playboy in the late ’70s, and he was being asked about what kind of music he liked, and he went on at some length extolling the vir­tues of what he called “coun­try and west­ern” music. Aside from blow­ing my chau­vin­ist punk-rock mind, it also struck me as decidedly un-Humbertish. It was around that time that I began to intu­it that per­formers could in fact be quite a bit dif­fer­ent from their per­so­nas and/or what we pro­ject on them. At any rate, I nev­er wanted to have sex with him after that, myself.

• Shamus says:

  March 24, 2012 at 1:06 pm

  And here I was think­ing that put­ting frames with frames was Ozu’s racket…
  I’ve only ever seen ZANGIKU MONOGATARI on muddy 16mm prints, but that image looks incred­ibly pristine- was it lif­ted from a DVD, by any chance?

• jbryant says:

  March 24, 2012 at 11:45 pm

  Glenn: For me, it’s rel­at­ive. If Mason was extolling Johnny Cash and Hank Williams père, I’d give him a pass. If it was Kenny Rogers and Marie Osmond, maybe not.
  I’ve been think­ing about Dunham’s tweet, and now I’m won­der­ing what she meant by “in his later years.” Like THE VERDICT? Yikes. Of course, to someone her age, Mason prob­ably seems ancient in ODD MAN OUT.

• Not David Bordwell says:

  March 25, 2012 at 3:55 pm

  Does any­one else think that mir­ror in the first still looks like an iMac monitor?

• Oliver_C says:

  March 25, 2012 at 5:29 pm

  Mizoguchi did at least make use of an eer­ie elec­tron­ic score for his swan­song, ‘Street of Shame’.

• donnyz says:

  March 26, 2012 at 12:39 pm

  You mean 3/23/12

• Glenn Kenny says:

  March 26, 2012 at 12:57 pm

  No, the date is cor­rect, I just put it up early.

• Chris says:

  March 28, 2012 at 10:50 pm

  I love that scene from Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. He lights the cigar­ette, throws the pack in the trash, smokes, likes it, and then glances back at the pack that he just threw in the trash.