Adam Grinwald is a Feature Writer at Collider with a lifelong passion for cinema, literature, music, and culture. From the early days of memorizing practically every single line of dialogue off a ...

Benedict is a college graduate with a degree in Film and Screen Media and a future unemployed Letterboxd user. He got into movies through a childhood love of blockbusters and comic book movies, and ...

Legendary director Yasujiro Ozu’s rigorously spare style was often marked by long, slow takes -- the camera set at the eye level of a person sitting on the tatami matting that cover the floors of a ...

Consider the "wink or twitch" problem, which anthropologists have used to describe the fundamental challenge of deciphering another culture. The subject's eye moves, but was it just an involuntary ...

Following the release last year of a collection of Ozu’s ‘Student Comedies’ by the BFI, reviewed here, this week sees the release of another collection of early silent films from the Japanese master.

"Life's tragedy begins with the bonding of parent and son." "The Only Son," the first sound film of the great Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu, opens with these words printed across the screen. The year ...

(c) 1947 Shochiku Co. Ltd. The selection of two restored films by Ozu Yasujiro for the Cannes Classics section will kick-off a six-month long celebration of the ...

A recent exhibit at the National Film Center in Tokyo showcases the refined artistic sensibilities of the renowned film director Ozu Yasujirō. The diverse array of objects displayed includes not only ...

There’s been an epic find for serious film buffs this week. A nearly-finished 1929 film called “Tokkan Kozo,” or “A Straightforward Boy,” by the hugely-influential Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu has ...