The Noteworthy: New Senses, Nick Ray's Master Class, The Brakhage Lectures
Adam CookNew Senses of Cinema, a Nick Ray doc Kickstarter, Truffaut’s alternate titles for The 400 Blows, Stan Brakhage lectures & more.
Koji Wakamatsu
-
-
Kôji Wakamatsu 1936 - 2012
NotebookThe great Japanese pinku-political filmmaker has died after being hit by a car in Tokyo.
-
Cannes 2012. Kôji Wakamatsu's "11/25 The Day Mishima Chose His Fate"
Daniel KasmanKôji Wakamatsu continues his look at Japanese history with a micro-biopic on the passion of Yukio Mishima.
-
Daily Briefing. "Wings" and News
David HudsonDennis Lim on United Red Army, the LAT’s directors roundtable and more.
-
Japan Society to Premiere New Films by Wakamatsu and Tsukamoto
David HudsonLove Will Tear Us Apart is “a series of twisted, obsessive, heart-blazing love stories from Japan and Korea.”
-
First Look 2012
Jesse CataldoA guide to New York’s new film festival of overlooked treasures playing at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens.
-
Daily Viewing. Trailer for Wakamatsu's "Kaien Hotel Blue"
David HudsonAfter 11.25 Jiketsu no Hi: Mishima Yukio to Wakamonotachi, this will be the second film from Koji Wakamatsu in 2012.
-
Daily Briefing. Trailer for Wakamatsu's "Mishima"
David HudsonAlso: Saul Bass’s sole directorial effort. Bertolucci in Melbourne. Berlinale 2012 retrospective. Elvis and Nixon and more.
-
"United Red Army" + Vampires, Sequels and More
David HudsonOf course there'll be another roundup on The Tree of Life. But first, let's give a little breathing room to some of the other films opening this Memorial Day Weekend. "The extreme leftists of the
-
"Caterpillar," "Lord Byron," "The Beaver," "Thor," More
David Hudson"A onetime yakuza turned jailbird turned filmmaking enfant terrible, the now-75-year-old Japanese director Kōji Wakamatsu has long been loved by cinema cultists for an outrageous string of 1960s provocations
-
Out of the Past 2010: Some Favorite Film Double Features
David PhelpsWe at MUBI think that celebrating the films of 2010 should be a celebration of film viewing in 2010. Since all film and video is "old" one way or another, we present Out of a Past, a small (re-) collection
-
Wakamatsu, "Burlesque," "Tangled," More
David Hudson"We have exciting news on the horizon for Kôji Wakamatsu fans," tweeted Kino Lorber a few days ago. "An official theatrical release of United Red Army???" asked Kenji Fujishima. The answer was