The Film Sufi

When Port of Call ( Hamnstad ) was released in 1948, it was already the fifth film that the thirty-year-old Ingmar Bergman had directed...

Yasujiro Ozu’s last black-and-white film, Tokyo Twilight ( Tokyo Boshoku , 1957), was one of his darkest works – even more downbeat tha...

Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960) won the Palme d’Or (“Best Picture”) at the Cannes Film Festival and was his biggest hit with th...

About Yasujiro Ozu: Ozu’s Cinematography (from the review of Early Spring ) Ozu’s mise-en-scene was famously different from most other...

Like most of the films of his mature period, Yasujiro Ozu’s Late Spring ( Soshun , 1956) concerns the various personal and social relat...