Tag Archives: Donald Richie

The Week

comics and cartooning, film, tv, video, hype & linkage, pictorial artsBy Matthias Wivel 25 February 2013

The week in review The picture above reared its head again last week when the foundation dedicated to its authentication as an earlier version of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo presented new “proof” by pointing out geometric similarities with the famous picture in the Louvre. Strangely, it did not seem to occur to them that…

Donald Richie RIP

commentary and criticism, film, tv, videoBy Matthias Wivel 24 February 2013

Besides technique, however, there’s something else about [Seven Samurai] that defies analysis because there are no words to describe the effect. What I mean might be called the irrational rightness of an apparently gratuitous image in its proper place, and the image I always think of is that wonderful and mysterious scene in Zéro de…