Today marks the 109th birthday of great Japanese auteur Yasujirô Ozu, it also means this master of cinema has left us for 49 years(Ozu was born and died on the same day). This year, his most important film Tokyo Story was voted as the best film in the Sight & Sound top 100 films of all […]
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8 Things You Might not Know About Yasujiro Ozu
Vertigo beats Citizen Kane to the top in Sight & Sound “The Greatest Films Poll” is no doubt one of the biggest news among cinephiles in the last couple of months,but a fact many people don’t know is that Yasujiro Ozu‘s Tokyo Story has silently climbed to the top in the Director’s Poll,and it seems the […]
Are You “Adventurous” Enough to Try Eclipse Series?
Here is a brief introduction about Eclipse Series on Criterion.com: Eclipse is a selection of lost,forgotten,or overshadowed classics in simple,affordable editions.Each Series is a brief cinematheque retrospective for the adventurous home viewer. The last few words “adventurous home viewer” interest me,I think there are 2 reasons Criterion call these people “adventurous“. First,the “overshadowed ” Eclipse Series are less […]