Episodes of the “Twilight Zone” ran thirty minutes, or whatever without commercials, for a very good reason. Stretching a one-note story out to an hour would be too exasperating. Woman in the Dunes stretches it out to, I guess, two and a half hours.
The film starts interestingly enough. An entomologist looking for bugs finds himself […]
Entries Tagged as 'Abe Kôbô'
Woman in the Dunes (1964, Teshigahara Hiroshi)
September 4th, 2007 No Comments
Recommend on MahaloThe Face of Another (1966, Teshigahara Hiroshi)
May 19th, 2006 No Comments
Novelists make interesting screenwriters (though maybe not as much any more). When they adapt their own work, however, it might not be the best idea. The adaptation allows them to package their interpretation of themselves, as opposed to actually adapting a work from one medium to the next. The Face of Another, adapted by Abe […]
