Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. Film Critics' Workshop: Day 2
Chris FujiwaraYoung critics look at a new Japanese film, the turbulent era of 1960s Japanese TV docs, and the place of the documentary film critic.
Nagisa Oshima
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Now on DVD: Shapeshifting Songs of Sex
Daniel KasmanThe movies of Nagisa Oshima famously change shape—genre and style—from one to the next, but perhaps most surprising inside this accepted generalization is when the films change within themselves. Sing
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DVDs. Oshima, "Walkabout," "Stagecoach," More
David Hudson"Often called Japan's greatest living filmmaker, Nagisa Oshima, now 78, kept up a furious pace through the first half of his career, cranking out 18 films in 14 years," writes Dennis Lim in the
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Movie Poster of the Week: "Band of Ninja"
Adrian CurryI recently came across a page on the website of the Cinématheque Française devoted to their eye-popping collection of Japanese posters, many of which I had never seen before. Though there are some striking
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The Auteurs Daily: Locarno and Other Fests and Events
David HudsonThe 62nd Locarno International Film Festival has wrapped tonight with its awards ceremony and the world premiere of Byambasuren Davaa's The Two Horses of Genghis Khan. But the news of the evening
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Province of the Wretched, Part II: Shuttered
Ryland Walker KnightLinked by their concerns with sexuality (or, more directly, perversion), if not by the near simultaneous release of several of their films on DVD in the US, Nagisa Oshima and Shohei Imamura belong to
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Koreyoshi Kurahara, Part I: "Black Sun" and the Sun Tribe
Nick PalevskyThis year’s TOKYO FILMEX featured a retrospective on Koreyoshi Kurahara, a director whose long-term international reputation may rest on his taiyozoku, or “sun tribe” films. He did these for Nikkatsu Studios
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David Phelps<< Take IV
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Oshima: A World of Their Own (Chasing Shadows, Take Four of Four)
David PhelpsIsn’t there a simpler way of saying all this? The Man Who Left His Will on Film, like so many Oshima movies, spins off in alternate directions from a central scene to pose, as if hypothetically
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Oshima: Perspective Matters, Take Three (of Four)
David PhelpsTheater of the Revolution again. Oshima’s Shiro of Amakusa takes up the perspective of a blank stare—mostly minute-long takes, from positions fixed as corpses, only for a quickly forgotten camera to reassert
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Oshima: Theater of the Revolution, Take Two (of Four)
David PhelpsRestart. Capitalism, hard-wired for subjugations, turns relationships into staged exchanges. Everyone is under some sort of control and wants some more. Rebellion is transgression is sexual. Oshima rebels
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Oshima: Chasing Shadows
David PhelpsOshima: Chasing Shadows is a four part series of articles on Nagisa Oshima written during the recent touring retrospective on the director. This post is a table of contents for the series and will be