wow! couldn't agree more. I've always thought The Magnificent Ambersons the most satisfying of Welles' films, even in its (allegedly) butchered state . . . And Ozu's Tokyo Story . . . one of the best films with one of the best lines of all times . . . .
Yeah, Robert Wise, a talented filmmaker who I admire and respect, apparently was engaged to modify Welles's original edit, while the great man was in Brazil working on the never-to-be completed
It's All True. Still a great film, despite Wise's
unwise interpolations.
From
Tokyo Story, paraphrasing from memory: "Life is very disappointing, isn't it?" "Yes, it is" (said with a smile). Setsuko Hara was so inutterably beautiful. I like Ozu's
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice, an overlooked comedy from one year earlier (1952), even more than
Tokyo Story, which is still probably Ozu's most famous movie.