MOVIES you watched this week? (DVD)

[David]

SHAOLIN
Consummate command of the camera, but it's hard to tell where the camera ends & the CGI begins in today's movies, which, despite all their excitement, rarely move me as profoundly as the work of an old master like Ozu, with whom I also spent some time this week . . .

A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS (1934)
Ozu must have been a fascinating fellow to follow chronologically, for those viewers who got to. Most of us probably went at him in reverse, seeing his later (and greater) work and then seeking out his early films like this. I remember seeing HER ONLY SON, another early '30s film, in college.

Also watched this week the Geraldine McEwan MISS MARPLE -- all four of them. Great casts, by the way, with just about everyone you'd expect to see actually showing up as someone or other.