I DISCOVERED Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s film Cure (1997) while working on Pariah, a film about Ulrike Meinhof that deals with the “spell” cast by leaders over followers and with the conditions…

He once admitted that seeing the aforementioned Kurosawa film at the age of fourteen was what persuaded him to attend Kyoto University. And much of Taboo registers as a multifaceted tribute to …

Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Tokyo Sonata, 2008, color film in 35 mm, 119 minutes. Production still. Kenji Sasaki (Kai Inowaki). VENTURING OUTSIDE the paranormal zone that he defined with films such as…

A 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” …

The international recognition of Japanese cinema as Japanese came at a critical juncture: The country’s film industry, among the oldest in the world, emerged after World War II and the subsequent Allied …

Chris Marker, La Jetée, 1962, 35 mm, black-and-white, sound, 27 minutes. The Woman (Hélène Chatelain). NORA M. ALTER A cat is never on the side of power. —Chris Marker, A…

Their maneuvers are subjected to a geometrical rigor and a terrible stillness reminiscent of Kurosawa but new to Hong Kong film. Each widescreen composition harbors pockets and apertures, and every …

Nov 13, 2016 · Simpson took inspiration from a scene in Akira Kurosawa’s film Kagemusha (1980), in which she observed the intricate folds of seated samurais’ skirts. In her works, the skirt’s function …

And though his living sculptures often resemble apocalyptic filmic fantasies à la Blade Runner or Kurosawa’s Dreams, Hooper Schneider insists that his works optimistically point to the possibilities, …

I WAS SURPRISED BUT DELIGHTED that Yayoi Kusama came to meet me at the Pittsburgh airport. It made for a large group: Kusama; her two assistants; the curator of the…