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FOUR SEASONS: WINTER

By: Kenji


Kwaidan

brrrr, water frozen up, icicles hanging outside, birds needing feeding, puffs of breath in the air…
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In the Bleak Midwinter
In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter,
Long ago.
(Christina Rossetti)


Moscow in the Snow (Mundwiller, 1908)

Haiku
Red maple now bare.
Here lies, beneath, poor bunny.
But soon, the snowdrops.
(Kenji)


Hiroshige: Benten Shrine (from 12 Snow Scenes series)

“A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
(James Joyce, The Dead)


Pieter Bruegel: Hunters in the Snow

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A Country Doctor (part 1)

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ST. AGNES’ Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;
The hare limp’d trembling through the frozen grass,
And silent was the flock in woolly fold
(John Keats)

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The weather conditions in Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition in the film South were more than wintry enough, and i’m including the Arctic snow too, irrespective of season. Some films here cover various seasons but with memorable winter sections, e.g Mirror (scenes reminiscent of the Bruegel painting above)


Sleep Furiously

Not on Mubi:
Railroaders (Coté)


My Winnipeg

 

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a Smith

25Jan12

-Kurosawa's Dreams (for the third segment) -One Magic Christmas -Young Sherlock Holmes All three make me glad to be inside

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DirtyBee

24Jan12

Films by Sergei Loznitsa, Capriccio (Huszarik), Vodka Lemon (Hiner Saleem), Näinä Päivinä (Jörn Donner), Bread Day (Sergei Dvortsevoy), so far l can think of those. And, l so love idea for this list :)

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    Kenji

    24Jan12

    I must see those films, i will look into them, thanks

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Bleu Poster

20Aug11

Talking about Scott's expedition, maybe The Great White Silence ought to be added?

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Kenji

30Mar11

I look forward to seeing Jordan's Winter Light as i like his films a lot, and maybe should see Hart of London again, thanks. I'm not adding every wintry film

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