Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 255: Sun Sep 14

I Flunked, But ... (Ozu, 1930): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 3.55pm

This film, also screening on October 7th, is part of the Big Screen Classics strand. Details here.

BFI introduction:
Takahashi and his friends decide to cheat in their end-of-year exams by writing a series of the answers on the shirts they plan to wear. But their plan doesn’t go as smoothly as they hoped. With more than a passing nod to Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman, Ozu’s comedy is a tightly directed classic with global appeal, and features expert comic choreography and strong visual humour.

Here (and above) is an extract.

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