'ALMOST'-EMPTY-NEST SYNDROME.Byline: - Bob Strauss Film critics get asked what their favorite movie is all of the time. My answer to that question varies depending on the mood of the moment, but more often than not I say ``Late Spring.'' Yasujiro Ozu's 1949 masterpiece gets a rare screening at 7:30 Friday at the Skirball Cultural Center  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . as part of its ``Cinema's Legacy: How Great Filmmakers Inspire Great Filmmakers'' series (the inspired one, who will be there to comment on the picture, is ``Selena'' and ``Mi Familia'' director Gregory Nava). Shot in the simple style that became Ozu's trademark, ``Late Spring'' is the story of an aging Japanese widower widower n. a man whose wife died while he was married to her and has not remarried. WIDOWER. A man whose wife is dead. A widower has a right to administer to his wife's separate estate, and as her administrator to collect debts due to her, generally for (the sublime Chisu Ryu Ryū (竜 or りゅう or リュウ Ryū ) who ever-so-gently and with the subtlest guile pushes his only child, a daughter (Setsuko Hara) slightly past the prime marrying age, out of the nest. It's as beautiful and touching an ode to parental sacrifice as has ever been made in any art form, with the most poetically perfect final scene in world cinema. The Skirball Center is located at 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., at the top of the Sepulveda Pass Sepulveda Pass (el. 1130 ft. / 334 m.) is a mountain pass through the Santa Monica Mountains in Los Angeles, California. It is often called Poop-Out Pass, a phrase once used by now-deceased traffic reporter Bill Keene. . General admission is $10, less for students, guild and union members, and American Film Institute American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase and Skirball members. Call (323) 655-8587 for advance tickets. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: A widowered father (Chisu Ryu) greets his daughter (Setsuko Hara, right) and her friend in a scene from ``Late Spring.'' |
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