Censorship of Japanese Films During the U.S. Occupation of Japan: The Cases of Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Criterion via The Playlist : Floating Weeds Yasujiro Ozu A couple of years ago, I finally discovered Ozu’s work, starting with this film. The stories are beautiful, yes, and the filmmaking is exquisite. I’d recommend any/all of the late films and will use this one as an example. Many of the actors and crew worked with Ozu on many of these late films, so they all feel interrelated, small...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) .. Bela Tarr The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein The Mother and the Whore (1973) .. Jean Eustache The...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Late Spring (1949) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu Man with a Movie Camera (1929) .. Dziga Vertov La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir Playtime (1967) .. Jacques Tati L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau The Conformist (1970) .. Bernardo Bertolucci...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The distinguished Japanese author and essayist Junzo Shono was best known for his short stories of family life. His style was typified by understatement and a concern with the mundane details of experience.
The Sound of Young America (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Talk about a podcast custom-made to win over your Podthinker. First — and most importantly — it's a podcast. That's step one. Second, it's about film, and it's been clearly, laboriously, repeatedly documented here how much your Podthinker loves himself a fine film. Third, it focuses specifically on films released for home viewing by The Criterion Collection , the company that not only...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Claire Denis; Alex Descas Mati Diop Grégoire Colin. Rating:
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
DVD Video Review: Claire Denis channels the spirit of Ozu through her own sensibility and modern-day view of Paris. Noel Megahey reviews New Wave's DVD release.
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Japanese auteur Takashi Miike's tale of psychosexual anxiety gets a 10th-anniversary release. Japanese auteur Takashi Miike's tale of psychosexual anxiety gets a 10th-anniversary release.
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Recently, my uncle -- a film buff to put most other film buffs to shame -- sent me a clipping from the Seattle Times, in which critic John Hartl celebrated the greatest movie year of all time. Not 1939, as is generally accepted, but 1959. And I have to agree with him. It was an amazing time when the old Hollywood guard was winding down and creating their final masterpieces, new upstarts were coming...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
When the average American film fan thinks of Japanese movies, they'll probably picture one of three things: either a samurai or a gangster -- Toshiro Mifune and his sword, or Takeshi Kitano and his gun -- or a stringy-haired ghost girl. Die-hard fans will know that Yasujiro Ozu, Nagisa Oshima and Mikio Naruse also made contemporary dramas about modern-day citizens, often trying to figure out their...
VEACE (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
I dreamed that I was a bookstore owner, and then I woke up wanting to own a bookstore. I'd also like to become a professional poker player. I have life-goals. Man, that was some serious coma-sleep, almost painful. I hate waking up all disoriented with the lights on and the TV on and having no concept of the time of day or why my kidneys hurt. Sometimes I like to wake up at 1pm and eat a can of pringles...
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
I know that Everybody’s Fine is clearly a movie for mainstream families about the importance of family coming together (a good thing) so there is really no point in my critiquing it for its intention or content - they’re just not for me. However, the trailer itself is a different story. My problem with the below trailer? It gives it all away. All you really need to know about Everybody’s...
Lessons of Darkness (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
Claire Denis has an almost-unparalleled gift for blending poeticism and realism, a combination once again seamlessly achieved in 35 Shots of Rum, her magnificently understated and piercing portrait of the difficulty of letting go. With a tip of the hat...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
This is a large (23.1 cm by 28.9 cm), fully illustrated account of Japanese film from its beginnings. There have now been a number of such histories, each perforce written from different perspectives and using various paradigms and methodologies. This latest entry, from the esteemed author of "The Emperor and the Wolf" — the most detailed study of director Akira Kurosawa and his iconic...
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