Yasujiro Ozu

I Was Born, But...

Late Spring

Surviving the Bomb in Children of Hiroshima

Floating Weeds

Tokyo Twilight

Best Films of 1972: Eight 10-Best Lists (And 'The Godfather' Only Makes One of Them!)

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

There Was a Father

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

Tokyo Story

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

Family Ties, Unbound, in Tokyo Story

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

An Autumn Afternoon

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

The End of Summer

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

Late Autumn

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

Good Morning

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

Equinox Flower

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

Tokyo Twilight

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

The Only Son

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

Seen, Not Heard (But Still Loud and Clear), the Children of I Was Born, But ...

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

I Was Born But…

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

BIG IN JAPAN

Composers score three silent films by Yasujiro Ozu

Family Drama, Sans Screaming, in Claire Denis's 35 Shots of Rum

Composers score three silent films by Yasujiro Ozu

Koreeda's Family Reunion, Still Walking

Resentment and regret: the raw emotions of familial relations

Tokyo Story

Resentment and regret: the raw emotions of familial relations

There Was a Father

Resentment and regret: the raw emotions of familial relations

"The Late Film" at BAM

Directors in the twilight of their careers

ND/NF: So Yong Kim Knows What It Feels Like for a Girl

Directors in the twilight of their careers

From Chaos, Hope in Japanese Films Tôkyô Sonata and Megane

Directors in the twilight of their careers

Winslet and DiCaprio Awake to Yates's Revolutionary Road

Directors in the twilight of their careers

Imamura's Controlled Chaos

Japan's grimy, dark underbelly, through the clear eyes of its great rebel auteur

'The Taste of Tea'

Japan's grimy, dark underbelly, through the clear eyes of its great rebel auteur

Closely Watched Trains: Hou's Meditative Metro Mood Piece

Japan's grimy, dark underbelly, through the clear eyes of its great rebel auteur

Unknown Pleasures

For the first time in 21 years, oft—overlooked Japanese master Mikio Naruse has a retro in NY

Samurai and Old Souls: A Look Back at a Legendary Japanese Studio

For the first time in 21 years, oft—overlooked Japanese master Mikio Naruse has a retro in NY

Traveling Light

Dedicated to Ozu, Hou's eloquent, meditative mood piece dreams its own Tokyo story

A Thousand I's

Stephin Merritt modestly submerges his first person under the ninth letter of the alphabet

Distant Voices, Still Lifes: Ozu Finds 'Presence in Absence'

Stephin Merritt modestly submerges his first person under the ninth letter of the alphabet

The Mourning After

Stephin Merritt modestly submerges his first person under the ninth letter of the alphabet

Time (Clock of the Heart)

Stephin Merritt modestly submerges his first person under the ninth letter of the alphabet

Contact Sports

Stephin Merritt modestly submerges his first person under the ninth letter of the alphabet

Time Regained

Stephin Merritt modestly submerges his first person under the ninth letter of the alphabet

The Stunt Men

Stephin Merritt modestly submerges his first person under the ninth letter of the alphabet

Tooning In

Disney Imports a Japanese Auteur-Animator