Director Kōji Wakamatsu passed away on the 17th. I like this film of his.
Feature Friday: “Maroooned in Iraq” (2002)
I first came across Bahman Ghobadi while living in Bloomington-Normal; the Normal Theater showed A Time for Drunken Horses (2000).…
Feature Friday: “Scenes from a Marriage” (1973)
Following Love Letter, something slightly bitterer. Supposedly, the divorce rate at Big Other skyrocketed after this post.
Feature Friday: “Love Letter” (1995)
I’ll never understand why Shunji Iwai’s films never caught on in the States. He’s been immensely popular in Japan since…
Featureless Friday: “Meshes of the Afternoon” (1943)
I’ve learned more from Maya Deren than from many features I’ve seen. And so I was very pleased to see…
Feature Friday: “Dark Star” (1974)
I caught up with Dark Star only a few years back, at one of the Music Box‘s science-fiction marathons. I…
Feature Friday: “Je, tu, il, elle” (1976)
Chantal Akerman is probably best-known for her 1975 masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, which is definitely required viewing. But all of her…
“A New Leaf” is finally getting a DVD release
As evidenced here. Release date, September 4th. Which is soon. This is such great news. I think it’s the first…
Feature Friday: “Mikey and Nicky” (1976)
I’ve already happily linked to online copies of two Elaine May films on Feature Friday—The Heartbreak Kid (1972) and A…
Feature Friday: “Loves of the Arctic Circle” (1998)
God, I love this film. It’s so beautiful and sad and bittersweet. For a while it was impossible to find…