{"id":14803,"date":"2022-01-30T20:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T01:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14803"},"modified":"2022-01-30T11:53:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T16:53:16","slug":"the-inland-sea-1991-lucille-carra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14803","title":{"rendered":"The Inland Sea (1991, Lucille Carra)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noted at the beginning that author\/narrator Donald Richie&#8217;s comment on &#8220;the people the Japanese ought to be&#8221; sounded patronizing, but I&#8217;m also vaguely aware that Richie devoted his life to Japanese culture, so I dismissed it, and appreciated the rest of this hourlong movie as the sort of outsider travelogue that <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/365\">Chris Marker<\/a> used to make.  The mountain\/island scenery is wonderful &#8211; I kept watching out for <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14115\">the Naked Island<\/a>.  Unexpected inclusions: a monk who likes Sinatra, a reference to Council Bluffs.  &#8220;I wish to celebrate our differences for as long as possible.&#8221;  Watched with Katy (who did not get over the patronizing thing and is now anti-Richie) from the Sundance &#8217;92 collection &#8211; this played alongside <em>A Brief History of Time<\/em> and <em>Reservoir Dogs<\/em> and twenty others I used to see every week at the video store that didn&#8217;t look appealing enough to rent, all now available for instant streaming, not quite looking appealing enough to watch.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/inlandsea1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/inlandsea2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noted at the beginning that author\/narrator Donald Richie&#8217;s comment on &#8220;the people the Japanese ought to be&#8221; sounded patronizing, but I&#8217;m also vaguely aware that Richie devoted his life to Japanese culture, so I dismissed it, and appreciated the rest of this hourlong movie as the sort of outsider travelogue that Chris Marker used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,93,2970,36,1744],"class_list":["post-14803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-documentary","tag-donald-richie","tag-japan","tag-monks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14823,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14803\/revisions\/14823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}