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DVD Playhouse--May 2012
7 May 2012 3:57 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse – May 2012
By Allen Gardner
Shame (20th Century Fox) Director Steve McQueen’s harrowing portrait of a Manhattan sex addict (Michael Fassbender, in the year’s most riveting performance) whose psyche goes into overload when his equally-troubled sister (Carey Mulligan) visits unexpectedly. Exquisitely-made on every level, save for the screenplay, which makes its point after about thirty minutes. While it tries hard to be a modern-day Last Tango in Paris, this fatal flaw makes it fall somewhat short. The much- ballyhooed sex scenes and frontal nudity are the least-interesting things about the film, incidentally, which is still a must-see for discriminating adults who seek out challenging material. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS-hd 5.1 surround.
Being John Malkovich (Criterion) Spike Jonze’s madcap film of Charlie Kaufman’s script, regarding a socially-disenfranchised puppeteer (John Cusack) who finds a portal into the mind of actor »
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What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #142
29 April 2012 8:23 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I finished watching Wes Anderson's films this week, watched Yasujiro Ozu's Late Spring which I plan on reviewing once I can finish with the special features and I took a trip to the theater for a showing at the Seattle Cinerama's Sci-Fi Film Festival. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) The Seattle Cinerama is having a massive sci-fi film festival this week and last. They screened Metropolis with a live orchestra, a new 70mm print of 2001, 70mm prints of Tron, Ghostbusters and Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan and several other great sci-fi classics. Unfortunately my schedule wasn't allowing me to get to the theater for whatever reason, but I was able to carve out a block of time for a 70mm print of Terminator 2: Judgment Day to mixed results. The film began and the TriStar logo was bouncing all over the place and a few scratches were evident, but »
- Brad Brevet
Blu-ray Review: Criterion Edition of Ozu’s Timeless ‘Late Spring’
24 April 2012 2:28 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Two of the best things about the Criterion release of Yasujiro Ozu’s “Late Spring” happen to be proof of why the film and its director have become so important to so many film historians — appreciations from two talented people influences by the moving work, now available on Criterion Blu-ray and re-released Criterion DVD. Critic Michael Atkinson writes a beautiful essay in the booklet and the great director Wim Wenders (“Wings of Desire”) provides a fantastic documentary from 1985, “Tokyo-ga.” about the director. Both are reason enough to buy the movie.
Blu-ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
Atkinson makes a compelling case as to why Ozu has survived much more than most of his peers in the history of Japanese cinema. There’s something so simple about Ozu’s work, it touches a note of humanity without pretension that is both timeless and universal. Read the essay, then watch the movie, and then watch »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Daily Briefing. Hitchcock, Borzage, Ozu, More
24 April 2012 1:42 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Farley Granger "didn't fear the homoerotic subtext of either of the films he did for Hitchcock," writes Farran Nehme in the run-up to the For the Love of Film III Blogathon. "Mind you, in his autobiography Granger says he spent years disappointing critics and interviewers when asked about discussions with Hitchcock about just what was going on between Rope's two main characters: 'What discussions? It was 1948.' That didn't mean, though, that Granger himself and co-star John Dall were clueless." And as for Strangers on a Train (1951): "Given a role of ambiguous morality, he increases the questions about the character, rather than trying to emphasize the good-Guy qualities."
Charles Lyons for Filmmaker on Annette Insdorf's Philip Kaufman: "The first book-length assessment of Kaufman's oeuvre, which will reach 14 films when Hemingway and Gellhorn premieres on HBO in May [it also screens Out of Competition at Cannes], Philip Kaufman is a shrewd and very readable study. »
This Week on DVD and Blu-ray: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Shame, The Divide
17 April 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Brad Bird's live action directorial debut hits DVD and Blu-ray this week as Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol towers over a fairly small crop of new releases. Other releases of note include Steve McQueen's Shame starring Michael Fassbender and Carrey Mulligan, which didn't get much of a theatrical run due to its Nc-17 rating, Xavier Gens' post-apocalyptic thriller The Divide and the 3D nature documentary Born to Be Wild. Looking at TV releases, we have the second season of HBO's Treme along with the first season of the animated series Bob's Burgers, and on Blu-ray, look for the Criterion release of Yasujiro Ozu's Late Spring and Robert Rodriguez' long lost biker flick Roadracers. What will you be buying or renting this week? Check out the full list of releases after the jump. Amazon.com Widgets
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- Sean
Aki Kaurismäki
30 March 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The director and writer has learned from the greats – and with his latest, Le Havre, he proves that he's earned his place among them, says John Patterson
With Aki Kaurismäki's movies, as with Yasujirô Ozu's, familiarity breeds contentment. Taken cumulatively, they extol and embody the pleasures of repetition – the comforts of familiarity – without ever seeming repetitious or familiar themselves, even though Kaurismäki basically tells the same stories over and over again.
Returning to the Finn's work after 20 years of not seeing it (he was poorly distributed here in the Us for much of that time), my first impression was of an old, reliable and rewarding vibe-cum-sensibility still chugging along productively, the work perhaps wiser and kinder now, always evolving in tiny ways here and there, but always offering the same combination of deadpan fatalism (1988's Ariel has the funniest suicide in the history of cinema) amid a rigorously »
- John Patterson
DVD Review: 'The Mizoguchi Collection'
5 March 2012 3:39 AM, PST | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★★★★ The label 'master filmmaker' is often overused, but in the case of prolific Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi, it is totally justified. Ranked among the likes of Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirô Ozu, Mizoguchi had a directing career spanning 33 years and over 50 films, beginning with what he considered his first 'serious' effort, Sisters of Goin, in 1936, which is included in this excellent new Artificial Eye collection focusing on his middle period.
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- CineVue
DVD Review: 'The Student Comedies' (The BFI Ozu Collection)
21 February 2012 6:29 AM, PST | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★★★☆ The Student Comedies consist of four incredibly rare films by the acclaimed Japanese director Yasujirô Ozu. This lovingly restored collection is part of the BFI's ongoing venture to release all 32 of the surviving films he made for the Shochiku Studio. This 2-disc box set finally brings Ozu's student-themed silent comedies to DVD for the first time - including a newly commissioned score by composer Ed Hughes.
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- CineVue
Ozu: The Student Comedies DVD Review
20 February 2012 7:00 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Thanks to the British Film Institute the availability of Ozu’s films is at a level now that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Their commitment to his work, releasing a large number on Blu-ray, is currently second to none with Criterion in America even lagging behind somewhat. Joining this sizeable collection of releases, which will eventually include all of the surviving films Ozu made at Shochiku, is a new double-disc release entitled ‘The Student Comedies’.
Covering the years 1929 to 1932 the set includes four of Ozu’s silent films, a fragment of an early film (11 minutes of the 1929 film I Graduated But…), a 20 minute talk from Tony Rayns on Ozu’s early films and a weighty new booklet on the films in question.
The first film in the set is Ozu’s eighth but first surviving film, Days of Youth. The film is an amusing little tale of two students, »
- Craig Skinner
Chikage Awashima, 1924 - 2012
16 February 2012 11:18 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Chikage Awashima and Kazuo Hasegawa in Zangiku Monogatari (1956)
"Chikage Awashima, an actress known internationally for her work with Yasujiro Ozu and other greats of Japanese cinema's 1950s golden age, died of pancreatic cancer on Thursday in Tokyo," reports Mark Schilling for Variety. She was 87. In 1950, Awashima left the Takarazaka Revue Company for the Shochiku studio, where she'd appear in "a wide range of roles, though in the West she is best remembered as the vivacious, teasing friend of lead Setsuko Hara in such films as Early Summer (1951) and Early Spring (1956) or Michiko Kogure in The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952), all by Ozu. She later transferred to the Toho studio, where she starred as the level-headed geisha wife of a merchant prince's dilatory son in Shiro Toyoda's Meioto Zenzai (1955); she reprised the role in the 1963 follow-up…. Her last film role was in Masahiro Kobayashi's 2010 drama Haru's Journey."
Awashima's »
Out of the Past 2011: Revival House Discoveries
18 January 2012 8:33 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
We at Mubi think that celebrating the films of 2011 should be a celebration of film viewing in 2011. Since all film and video is "old" one way or another, we present Out of a Past, a small (re-) collection of some of our favorite retrospective viewings from 2011.
These six movies are not necessarily the best old movies I saw for the first time this year, but the movies that most challenged my existing ideas of film and film history.
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Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1957)
April 21, Film Forum, New York, NY
Tokyo Twilight may be Ozu’s darkest film. Like a lot of his movies, it develops slowly as an accretion of small moments. It built so slowly, in fact, that I was surprised about 3/4 of the way through the film to realize how horribly ugly it had become. The received notion that Ozu makes quiet miniatures about everyday family life has »
News Shorts: January 16th 2012
16 January 2012 7:56 PM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
A ton of new first look stills today including The Hobbit, The Expendables 2, Prometheus, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, Men in Black III, I Hate You Dad, Battleship
There's also new photos from John Carter, This Means War, Hick, Darling Companion, The Monk, The Three Stooges
Finally there's new shots from Hysteria, Jack and Diane, The Good Doctor, This is Forty, Gangster Squad, The Hunger Games
Posters for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter & Battleship, new photos of Will Ferrell on the set of Dog Fight, Jim Carrey shooting Burt Wonderstone, and a cool vintage poster for The Woman in Black
"The second season of Downton Abbey will be available on DVD & Blu-ray in the U.S. from February 7th, almost two weeks ahead of the scheduled air date for that season finale in BBC America…. (full details)
"Midnight in Paris, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Moneyball, The Skin I Live In, »
- Garth Franklin
The Criterion Collection Announce April 2012 Blu-ray Slate Including Harold and Maude
15 January 2012 7:41 AM, PST | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
The Criterion Collection have announced their Blu-ray release slate for the month of April 2012 and it's another wonderful month, with films ranging from emotional family drama to the experimental.
The latest additions to the Collection lead of with the 1971 cult favorite Harold and Maude, directed by Hal Ashby, about a death-obsessed young man and a free-spirited older woman who form quite the unusual bond. Alambrista!, directed by Robert M. Young, is a gripping take on the immigration story that, rather than going the route of sentimentality tells its story via harsh truths and focus. Director Mario Monicelli's The Organizer is a tale focused on the working class of a textile factory that, through an unlikely ally, are able to rally together as one. Then there is A Hollis Frampton Odyssey. Frampton was an icon of the American Avant-Garde and this release contains twenty-four of his films, ranging from 1966 to »
Noriko Smiling by Adam Mars-Jones – review
7 January 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Adam Mars-Jones's essay on Japanese film director Yasujiro Ozu goes a long way to demystifying a master
Adam Mars-Jones's new book, which arrives less than a year after his novel Cedilla, is an attempt to save postwar Japanese cinema from its reputation as a museum of mystical objects, a body of work so "hushed, serene and inexplicit" that the only sensible, even possible, response is to keep your mouth shut and bow. His favourite among these films, Yasujiro Ozu's domestic drama Late Spring (1949), has been discussed almost solely in terms of Japaneseness. But this is not a contribution to the study of "orientalism", a term that, as formulated by Edward Said (and critically parsed by Mars-Jones), "reduces all the ways in which cultures can misunderstand each other to mechanisms of control". The villains of Noriko Smiling aren't those who patronise Ozu, or overlook him, but who admire him in the wrong way. »
- Leo Robson
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