Above: What this picture needs is some RED.
I forgot to mention that, while Roger is up at his lake place working on his memoirs, I’ve done a few reviews for the main site (RogerEbert.com) and the Chicago Sun-Times. This week, I think you’ll find that I’m one of the very few critics to cite Yasujiro Ozu in a review of Neil Marshall‘s handsomely gory “Centurion,” and among the minority of reviewers who find a reason to compare the tank in the Israeli war film “Lebanon” to the Nostromo in “Alien,” though I could be wrong.
As it turns out, without intending to do so I reviewed both of the movies I was covering this week almost entirely in terms of style, almost as if they were abstract non-narrative films. Actually, I guess I probably do that more often than not, but… judge for yourself:
The Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu once made a film called “The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice.” “Centurion” might be thought of as “The Color of Red Guts Over Mountains,” because that, as much as anything, describes what it is about.
