Akira Kurosawa recounting the unforgettable experience of watching Solaris with Andrei Tarkovsky:
“Andrei Tarkovsky was sitting in the corner of the screening room watching Solaris with me, but he got up as soon as the film was over and looked at me with a shy smile. I said to him, ‘It’s very good. It’s a frightening movie.’ He seemed embarrassed but smiled happily. Then the two of us went to a film union restaurant and toasted with vodka. Tarkovsky, who does not usually drink, got completely drunk and cut off the speakers at the restaurant, then began singing the theme of Seven Samurai at the top of his voice. I joined in, eager to keep up. At that moment, I was very happy to be on Earth.”
@srfiltros@nolightupstairs Above its weight. It should also be noted that there's probably a lot of things that you do not realise were produced by Scandinavians since the cultural industry of Scandinavia is so intertwined with that of the Anglophone
@srfiltros@nolightupstairs Scandinavia. If you were to claim that Scandinavia no longer projects pop culture above its weight you might do better to pick a comparison that doesn't also project pop culture above its weight. Also the choice of the movie industry as a point of comparison is an interesting
@srfiltros@nolightupstairs This is the sole metric by which you measure how pop culture is projected? Besides I don't get what you're trying to achieve by a comparison between Scandinavia and Japan. Firstly, Japan projects its pop culture above its weight and it has a much higher population than all of -