©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…
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…
Ansa and Holappa, the quiet loners in “Fallen Leaves”, are on their first date watching Jim Jarmusch’s zombie movie “The Dead Don’t Die” in the local Ritz movie theater. Coming out, someone makes an absurdly amusing comparison: “it reminded me of “Diary of a Country Priest”, Robert Bresson’s classic. Ansa gives Holappa her phone number…
“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…
When Chiaki Yanagimoto first discovered films as a kid, she was smitten with the movie making bug. As she explained, “I’m originally from Japan, and I grew up in a very small town where there weren’t many places for entertainment. My mother used to rent movies in VHS regularly from the only video rental store…
The Japanese film Offbeat Cops, part of the 2022 New York Asian Film Festival line-up, presents a feel-good story about making amends, written and directed by Eiji Uchida. The film begins and ends with the mystery and solution of the “pre-called burglaries” case. It involves a small gang that phones elderly women and deceitfully gains…
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