[KineJapan] Earl on Hamaguchi

[Earl Jackson]

Thank you so much, Markus
I really appreciate this.
best
ej
Earl Jackson
Chair Professor
Foreign Languages and Literatures
Asia University
Professor Emeritus
National Chiao Tung University
Associate Professor Emeritus
University of California, Santa Cruz


On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 1:13 AM Markus Nornes via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Earl Jackson gives us a splendid reading of Drive My Car’s narrative
> complexities. His close textual analysis in part 2 of the essay is a
> powerful observation of what Hamaguchi is up to.
>
> Markus
>
> *“*Drive My Car”, in fact, obviates the question of convention and
> innovation because, like Hamaguchi’s previous works, the movie constitutes
> an act of concentration so committed to its process that even the
> distractions it admits become oracular, whether or not the oracle divulges
> its message- as we have seen in the communication workshop in *“*Happy
> Hour <https://asianmoviepulse.com/tag/happy-hour/>*”* (2015), Torii
> Baku’s (Masahiro Higashide
> <https://asianmoviepulse.com/tag/masahiro-higashide/>) late reappearance
> in “Asako I and II” [寝ても覚めても] (2018) or in the scene in *“*Drive My Car
> <https://asianmoviepulse.com/tag/drive-my-car/>*”* when  Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi
> Nishijima <https://asianmoviepulse.com/tag/hidetoshi-nishijima/>) closes
> his laptop on the video close-up of a lamprey’s ravenous maw (Fig. 1).
>
>
>
> https://asianmoviepulse.com/2022/02/stage-whispers-reflections-on-theater-in-film-inspired-by-drive-my-car-part-1/
>
>
> https://asianmoviepulse.com/2022/03/stage-whispers-reflections-on-theater-in-film-inspired-by-drive-my-car-part-2/
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>
> *Markus Nornes*
> *Professor of Asian Cinema*
> *Interim Chair, Dept. of Asian Languages and Culture*
>
> Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages
> and Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design
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