A Journey to the Center of Cinematic Madness

I watched Yasujiro Ozu's A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) and Floating Weeds (1959) back-to-back. A Story of Floating Weeds is one of Oz...

( image source ) Tsai Ming-liang's Rebels of the Neon God (1992) is nothing like the director's other films. There are only two trad...

# Name of the film (Director, the year of release) 50.  I'm Not There (Haynes, 2007) 49.  The Man Without a Past (Kaurismäki, 2002) 48...

( image source ) Jae-eun Jeong's Take Care of My Cat (2001) tells the story of five women struggling to make a living and staying togeth...

Katsushito Ishii's film The Taste of Tea (2004) has often been called very Ozu-like. The comparison isn't completely appropriate eve...

(the snapshot is not mine, it's from dvdbeaver.com ) Hirokazu Koreeda's Maborosi (1995) is a tale of grief. Yumiko (Makiko Esumi) i...

At first I have to mention that Nobody Knows (2004) is the first film I've seen from the Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda. The film...