…was pretty cool! I spent much of the day organizing the office, which the office definitely is in a bit of need of - there are lots of cool archival materials here and there, and there does exist an archival system in place within the office, but a ton of materials just haven’t been placed in proper order yet. It’s kinda frightening that the office keeps the records on all films ever played as part of repertory on a series of alphabetical cards, instead of on an online Filemaker database, as we used up at Dartmouth. I might make an effort to change this.

In other news, I got a call yesterday from another well-known repertory institution saying they were interested in having me come in for an interview! So tomorrow (Thursday) I’ll be going in to that. Woo.

Also, last night, I saw Kon Ichikawa’s The Makioka Sisters, which plays to me like a two and a half hour homage to Ozu. Much of Ozu’s narrative (a daughter to be married off, moving away to a modern city) and formal (seasons, dialogue delivered to the camera, ‘pillow shots’ of nature) concerns are present. It’s a beautiful melodrama where certain narrative strands don’t really hold up, but it has a unique power independent of its similarity to any film Ozu has made - a grandness of scale, enhanced by the stellar print at Walter Reade.  The crowd was shockingly huge for this movie - does it have a reputation I’m not aware of, or was everyone else as intrigued as I am by the almost childlike promise for beautiful color cinematography?

Oh - and I wrote two pages of my new screenplay on Monday night!

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