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Bookmark or Share- 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 ...
- LOUDER THAN WORDS: THE FILMS OF JOHNNIE TO - ArtforumThe most famous sequence shows the team attacked in a deserted shopping mall. They mount their defense with unruffled precision. As they take up positions, in tensely poised postures, we wait. Their maneuvers are subjected to a geometrical rigor and a terrible stillness reminiscent of Kurosawa but new to Hong Kong film.
- 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 ...
- CHRIS MARKER’S IMMEMORY - ArtforumYou can enter each of them and follow the path down which their mesmerizing images lead you, or you can chase names up in the index (try Allende, Hong Kong, Kafka, King Kong, Kurosawa, Rilke, Tolstoy, Verne), though, of course, there are countless moments of intersection, when a cue will take you to another zone and back.
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