A Page of Madness Comments

  • Michel 2023-07-13 21:31:58

    The final face is very intimidating in black and...

  • Guadalupe 2023-07-11 23:49:07

    I don't understand it, but it feels...

  • Retha 2023-07-11 11:52:38

    If you want a new feeling, you have to watch old...

  • Kaylah 2023-07-04 21:53:02

    Japanese early experimental film, full of magic, scary and...

  • Hans 2023-06-25 05:10:27

    It is probably the representative work of early Japanese experimental films. It can be seen that Tsukamoto Shin also has a strong similar shadow later. The silent film is combined with sharp screen editing, the rhythm of camera switching and movement is fast, and the sequence of the plots interspersed with flashbacks looks quite messy, which is a...

  • Linnea 2023-06-21 22:28:01

    Watch this in conjunction with Patrick Fuery's Madness and Cinema. Furey believes that the representation of madness is not important. What is more interesting is that the nature of madness itself is equivalent to that of movies. They are also produced from the "absence" of desire. They are also a kind of excess and resistance. Relationships can also be interpreted through psychological analysis. From this perspective, the relationship between the handyman and madness in this film also...

  • Garrick 2023-06-21 07:44:19

    the first experimental film I've...

  • Eunice 2023-06-06 10:50:33

    Japanese avant-garde, not...

  • Sandy 2023-05-22 04:25:39

    59min version. PasteMagazine's 20th silent film history, very avant-garde for that era. At the beginning, extremely fast-paced clips are used to show the madness of women, coupled with strange traditional Japanese music, light and dark, the crazy and twisted spiritual world is visualized, and even has a feeling of expressionism. It's really hard to understand without watching the plot. ——After watching this, I want to find a refreshing and poetic Soviet film to...

  • Carolyne 2023-04-26 19:00:54

    Japanese experimental film in the 1920s, crazy...

Extended Reading
  • Barbara 2022-06-12 19:57:03

    "Crazy Page": Japanese Cinema's Inheritance of German Expressionism

    At the beginning of the 20th century, Japanese drama films began to sprout. In the early stages, Japanese drama films are mostly rough. In the eyes of Japanese intellectuals, Japanese movies at that time were considered very low-end and vulgar. In order to change people's impression of movies, many...

  • Austyn 2022-06-12 16:10:33

    The First and Only Film of the New Sensation Film League

    There have been a lot of screenings in the department recently. Tonight is a brand new 35mm screening of the Japanese 1926 experimental silent film "A Page of Madness". Four musicians, including Chicago-based director/musician Tatsu Aoki and Jonathan Chen, will accompany the show live, with...