Comments on: THE BARKER d: George Fitzmaurice http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/barker-george-fitzmaurice-milton-sills/ thinking film Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:49:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Joseph Butler http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/barker-george-fitzmaurice-milton-sills/#comment-407193 Joseph Butler Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:35:04 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/09/07/review-1928-part-talkie-the-barker/#comment-407193 According to Donald Richie's commentary a Criterion Collection DVD, "The Barker" was the inspiration for Yasujiro Ozu's excellent 1934 silent movie, "A Story of Floating Weeds". Ozu remade his version of the story in a second film entitled simply "Floating Weeds"(1959) Perhaps these are not, technically speaking, remakes of "The Barker" but I thought they deserved mention here. According to Donald Richie’s commentary a Criterion Collection DVD, “The Barker” was the inspiration for Yasujiro Ozu’s excellent 1934 silent movie, “A Story of Floating Weeds”. Ozu remade his version of the story in a second film entitled simply “Floating Weeds”(1959)

Perhaps these are not, technically speaking, remakes of “The Barker” but I thought they deserved mention here.

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