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Tribeca Festival : People and Meat Review / Poor Old Trio Dine and Dash in Korean Gem

©Courtesy of Tribeca Festival In youth-oriented, fast-moving, modern societies, many elderly are overlooked and brushed aside, marginalized and isolated, or just have a bad rap. In the autumn of age, it’s too common to become invisible. In cinema, the theme has been explored in various ways, from Poetry to Umberto D., from Nomadland to Tokyo…

‘Perfect Days,’ Wim Wenders Makes Poetry Out Of An Ordinary Life

Courtesy of Neon The film directed by the illustrious German filmmaker was presented in competition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Best Actor Award for Kōji Yakusho. Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days shows Japan through the eyes of a European, and was nominated for the…

OZU 120, Complete Retrospective of Yasujirō Ozu’s Extant Work June 9-29 at Film Forum

“If there were something like a sacred treasure of the cinema,  that would have to be the work of Ozu.”  – Wim Wenders OZU 120 A COMPLETE RETROSPECTIVE OF YASUJIRŌ OZU’S EXTANT WORK JUNE 9-29 (THREE WEEKS) AT FILM FORUM Commemorating the 120th anniversary of the director’s birth And 60th anniversary of his death PRESENTED…