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Takeshi Kitano
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Notebook Reviews: Takeshi Kitano's "Outrage"
Daniel KasmanOutrage is a minimal but forceful answer, full of precision and self-critique, to fans who want more yakuza from Takeshi Kitano.
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Cannes 2010. End of the Line: "Outrage" (Takeshi Kitano, Japan)
Daniel KasmanTakeshi Kitano’s Outrage, which continues to be pitched and described as his “comeback” film, reveals why the filmmaker hadn’t previously returned to the genre that made his name—its conventions, the
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Cannes 2010. Takeshi Kitano
fabrizio maltesePhoto by Fabrizio Maltese/EF Press/fabriziomaltese.com.
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Cannes 2010. Favorite Moments: Day 8
Daniel KasmanPoetry (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea) Films about artists or someone creating art are incredibly difficult to pull off. It has something to do with audience verification–if we
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Cannes 2010. Takeshi Kitano's "Outrage"
David Hudson"As violent, amoral and misanthropic as a Jacobean play, Outrage is Takeshi Kitano's first yakuza flick since Brother (2000), and arguably his best film in a decade." And Maggie Lee makes that argument
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Takeshi Kitano and Cannes
NotebookHe's been all the rage in France for over a month now, honored with an exhibition and retrospective, named a Commander of Arts and Letters, and in just a couple of weeks now, his latest film will
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Movie Poster of the Week: "Glory to the Filmmaker" or: Kitano in Posters
Adrian CurryGlory to the Filmmaker indeed. As reported on The Auteurs yesterday, Takeshi Kitano is currently the toast of Paris, prompting Movie Poster of the Week to take a look at Kitano’s career in one-sheets
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Takeshi Kitano: All the Rage in France
NotebookCommandeurs des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. France has no higher honor to confer to an artist. On Tuesday, Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand formally proclaimed Takeshi Kitano a Commander of Arts
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Image of the day: Auteur self-portraits
Pacze MojFrom Takeshi Kitano's Achilles and the Tortoise (2008).