Societal customs and early forms of feminism collide in Late Spring, a masterfully delicate family drama from director Yasujirô Ozu. Produced in 1949, this...
Earlier in the day, first term Charles Tesson delivered the lottery like news that a lucky ten films/filmmakers (out of a whopping 1200 submissions)...
Batmanglij Makes you Hear the Sound and the Fury
Between moments of oddly comic happenings, there are such morbid, chilling, and delightful instances in Zal Batmanglij’s...
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.