The Forgotten: Murder by Depth
David CairnsA perfect murder is plotted, while the director concentrates on plotting the geography of an apartment in three dimensions.
Yasujiro Ozu
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Daily Briefing. Hitchcock, Borzage, Ozu, More
David HudsonAlso: The book on Philip Kaufman, the Whitney Biennial, Godard and Brakhage @ MoMA and more.
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Chikage Awashima, 1924 - 2012
David HudsonBest known in the West for her work with Ozu, Awashima performed well into her 80s.
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Out of the Past 2011: Revival House Discoveries
Doug DibbernAn end-of-2011 celebration not of new films but of old films revived and seen throughout the year. Ozu, Marilyn Monroe, Raoul Walsh, oh my!
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Daily Briefing. TSPDT updates its top 1000
David HudsonAlso: Malick, Ozu, Robert Kramer and more lists and awards.
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Movie Poster of the Week: Ozu’s “Young Miss”
Adrian CurryA rare, surviving poster for a lost film: Ozu’s 1930 comedy Ojosan or Young Miss.
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Tokyo International Film Festival 2011
David HudsonThe festival features a retrospective of work by actress Kyoko Kagawa, now 79.
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Images of the Day. Ozu in America
Daniel KasmanFinding Ozu in a 1954 Western shot by the great John Alton.
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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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Cineaste, Lancaster, "London Boulevard," "King's Speech," More
David HudsonDavid Greven in the new Winter 2010 issue of Cineaste: "Judging by these first three entries of Arsenal Pulp Press's new series Queer Film Classics, the editors — Matthew Hays and Thomas Waugh — have
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Tuesday Foreign Region/Blu-ray Disc Report: "Tokyo Story" (Yasujiro Ozu, 1952)
Glenn KennyWhat, finally, is the point of the Blu-ray disc? Not just for cinephiles, but for anyone with a home entertainment setup? Which questions lead us back to the question of what's the point of a home entertainment
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Ozu, Warner Archive, "Alamar," Anti-Biopics
David Hudson"By 1936, the year of Yasujiro Ozu's first feature-length talkie, The Only Son, the mature filmmaker of late masterpieces like Tokyo Story and Early Summer had become clearly recognizable, both