Records of Material Objects in Cinema #13
Daniel KasmanFrom Mikio Naruse’s Hideko, the Bus Conductress (1941).
Mikio Naruse
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Quote of the day. Mikio Naruse...or David Fincher?
Daniel Kasman“The pace of their rush toward destruction never lets up, pile upon pile of medium shots, thousands of fast cuts…”
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Image of the day. The Great Japanese Directors
Daniel KasmanIn one photo, in 1936: Naruse, Ozu, Mizoguchi, Shimizu, Uchida, Yamanaka, Gosho, Kinugasa and more!
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Notebook Roundtable: Talking Silent Naruse
Daniel KasmanA discussion of five early films by Mikio Naruse.
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Image of the day. Unideal Couples
Daniel KasmanIn honor of Hideko Takamine's appearance in Film Forum's 5 Japanese Divas retrospective, a frowny-melancholy-dour revision of our nascent Ideal Couples image series. Yukiko Koda (Takamine
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Image of the Day. Narusean Knuckle-gnashing
Ignatiy VishnevetskyMichiyo Kogure in a moment of typically-Narusean anxiety in Even Parting is Enjoyable (1947).
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Movie Posters of the Week: 5 Japanese Divas
Adrian CurryStarting today, and for most of April, Film Forum in New York will be honoring five of Japan’s greatest actresses in a portmanteau retrospective entitled 5 Japanese Divas. The divas in question are Setsuko
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Five Japanese Divas
David HudsonNick Pinkerton in the Voice on Five Japanese Divas, running from tomorrow through April 21: "Rarefied Ozu, bold Kurosawa, saturnine Naruse, magisterial Mizoguchi. The Great Men are here, and then some
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"My Perestroika," "Silent Naruse," More
David Hudson"If you're under the impression that post-Soviet Russia is a Wild West peopled at one extreme by gold-chained Mafiosi and at the other by starving babushkas hawking single daffodils in the Moscow
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Movie Poster of the Week: "Rickshaw Man" and the posters of Hideko Takamine
Adrian CurryThe great Japanese actress Hideko Takamine, who passed away on December 28 at the age of 86, has been eulogized beautifully on MUBI already (here, here, here and here) but I wanted to add my own personal
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Takamine Hideko
Daniel KasmanShe, in a cinema whose cadence seemed to both rest and peak on steady, everyday anguish, was at once a passive subject as well as our, the audience’s, most active and empathetic guide.
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Hideko Takamine
Dan Sallitt2010 began and ended with the deaths of great octogenarian film artists. Eric Rohmer died on January 11, a few months shy of his 90th birthday; and Hideko Takamine left us on December 28, at the age