Echoes #12
David PhelpsHeld at gunpoint in 1986.
Nagisa Oshima
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Movie Poster of the Week: “The Human Bullet” and the Posters of the Art Theater Guild
Adrian CurryA selection of late 60s graphic masterpieces created for the Art Theater Guild in Japan.
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The Noteworthy: LFU 15/1, "Historic Centre", Carpenter's Favorite Westerns
Adam CookLa Furia Umana debuts in print, Scorsese and De Palma prep new projects, Cinema Scope divulges their 2012 faves, Oshima + Kurosawa & more.
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The Noteworthy: R.I.P. Nagisa Oshima (1932-2013), The Formative Years of Cinema, Foreign Languages
Adam CookThe great Nagisa Oshima has passed away, Senses of CInema has a new World Poll, David Bordwell on the evolving cinema of 1908-1920, & more.
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Movie Poster of the Week: The Posters of André François
Adrian CurryA look at the other work of Pierre Etaix’s favorite poster designer.
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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.
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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