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Bookmark or Share- ROKNI HAERIZADEH - ArtforumThinking about life and death as a kid makes you serious. The TV programs at that time mostly depicted Islamic propaganda of the war, martyrs, and religion, but sometimes during the weekends they showed movies by directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Akira Kurosawa, and Sergei Eisenstein, as well as the Eastern European school of animated cartoons.
- A GESTURE AND A POSE: THE CINEMA OF MIKIO NARUSE - ArtforumA contemporary of first-generation filmmakers Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi, a teacher of postwar humanists Akira Kurosawa and Kihachi Okamoto, and an inspiration to “Japanese New Wave” directors of the ’60s and ’70s such as Shohei Imamura and Nagisa Oshima, Naruse continues to be rediscovered by twenty-first-century directors like ...
- AN INTERVIEW WITH EIKO ISHIOKA, BY INGRID SISCHY - ArtforumEIKO ISHIOKA IS AN ART director; a pioneer traveling in big commerce. Her book Eiko by Eiko, published here last fall by Callaway Editions, Inc., New York, in association with…
- PLAYING AGAINST TYPE: POSTWAR JAPANESE FILMThe ’50s were a famously productive decade for many of Japan’s most noted directors, such as Kurosawa and Mizoguchi, as well as Ozu, Mikio Naruse, and Kaneto Shindō, among others, all born around the turn of the century; but by the decade’s end a new generation—including Nagisa Ōshima, Masahiro Shinoda, Yoshishige (known as Kijū ...
- BLUR AS GENRE: WONG KAR-WAI - ArtforumIt’s no accident that Ashes of Time, an austere, dreamily ironic swordplay epic, is at once so anomalous and so utterly characteristic of Hong Kong film at its most satisfying: where else would someone combine Akira Kurosawa and Alain Resnais to make the equivalent of The Seven Samurai at Marienbad (and have this constitute a genre, albeit a ...
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