25 Items Found For yasujiro ozu

"Yasujiro Ozu created quiet epics that dealt purely and without stylistic fuss about what really matters....A masterpiece..."USA Today "[O]ne of the greatest films of all time."Chicago Sun-Times "[T]he experience of watching Ozu's masterpieces reveals an artist whose allegiances are strikingly diverse." Sight and Sound65.20333

"Viewers intimidated by Ozu's reverential critical rep will be pleasantly surprised by the earthy, allusive humor contained in both these greats." Premiere65.00675

"...A touching film all about attachment, connection, loneliness, abandonment..." -- Rating: AEntertainment Weekly "LATE SPRING is a profoundly calming film. It encourages the viewer to adapt to its own slow, regular heartbeat..."New York Times "...Ozu made a string of masterpieces about Japanese middle-class families....SPRING is a good place to begin..."USA Today 5 stars out of 5 -- "Focusing on the everyday tragedy and humdrum bliss of family....It's beautiful and moving in the extreme."Uncut65.00675

"...A touching film all about attachment, connection, loneliness, abandonment..." -- Rating: A Entertainment Weekly "...Ozu made a string of masterpieces about Japanese middle-class families....SPRING is a good place to begin..." USA Today "LATE SPRING is a profoundly calming film. It encourages the viewer to adapt to its own slow, regular heartbeat..." New York Times 5 stars out of 5 -- "Focusing on the everyday tragedy and humdrum bliss of family....It's beautiful and moving in the extreme."Uncut64.93911

"...A staple of all-time best movies polls, this lovely portrait is full of Ozu regulars, including lead Setsuko Hara..." USA Today64.93911

"...Sooner or later, everyone who loves movies comes to Ozu. He is the quietest and gentlest of directors, the most humanistic, the most serene..."Chicago Sun-Times64.93911

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"A rich social tapestry that also explores attitudes to family life and the lasting emotional impact left by a loved one's departure..."Sight and Sound64.87147

"GOOD MORNING is simultaneously among Ozu's most relaxed films and one of his most aesthetically rigorous." Sight and Sound64.87147

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"The three films vividly show how the former assistant director to Yasujiro Ozu and Yuzo Kawashima achieved a primal immediacy in engrossing studies of often bewildering predicaments."Film Comment1.180363

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"[An] absorbing and visually mesmerizing new crime thriller....[It] may well be Jarmusch's most enigmatic film yet..."Los Angeles Times "A sensitive colorist, Mr. Jarmusch is given a rich palette here by Christopher Doyle....Splashes of color, which appear to signal some unspoken threat or warning, serve as pieces of a puzzle that Mr. Jarmusch assembles with formal rigor and languid pacing..."New York Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "This is an essay in style, in which a great American director is transplanted to Southern Spain. The effect is akin to PULP FICTION remade by Yasujiro Ozu."Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "[H]ypnotic and gorgeous to look at....It's undeniably salient and confident filmmaking."Empire0.5901814

"[The director has] a deceptively simple touch. In STILL WALKING, the story builds through an accretion of details, in shared glances, gestures and conversation."New York Times "STILL WALKING transpires with unhurried ease, but multiple viewings reveal the sophistication of its almost imperceptible style. The movie seems like a perfect found object..." -- Grade: AA.V. Club "A very quiet drama of family turmoiol....A film of droll adn dry observational precision..." -- Grade: B-Entertainment Weekly "This small gem of a movie always feels true and real as it gently reveals the quiet moments that define our lives."Los Angeles Times Included in Chicago Sun-Times's "The Best Foreign Films Of 2009" -- "Written and directed by the great Hirokazu Kore-eda, in some ways the heir to Ozu."Chicago Sun-Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Koreeda] essays a moving restraint that evokes Ozu's vintage domestic dramas -- no mean feat."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "Brilliantly reworking Yasujiro Ozu's TOKYO STORY, this is a scathing story....Discretely photographed by Yutaka Yamazaki and complemented by Gontiti's charming guitar score..."Empire0.4426361

"[The director has] a deceptively simple touch. In STILL WALKING, the story builds through an accretion of details, in shared glances, gestures and conversation."New York Times "STILL WALKING transpires with unhurried ease, but multiple viewings reveal the sophistication of its almost imperceptible style. The movie seems like a perfect found object..." -- Grade: AA.V. Club "A very quiet drama of family turmoiol....A film of droll adn dry observational precision..." -- Grade: B-Entertainment Weekly "This small gem of a movie always feels true and real as it gently reveals the quiet moments that define our lives."Los Angeles Times Included in Chicago Sun-Times's "The Best Foreign Films Of 2009" -- "Written and directed by the great Hirokazu Kore-eda, in some ways the heir to Ozu."Chicago Sun-Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Koreeda] essays a moving restraint that evokes Ozu's vintage domestic dramas -- no mean feat."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "Brilliantly reworking Yasujiro Ozu's TOKYO STORY, this is a scathing story....Discretely photographed by Yutaka Yamazaki and complemented by Gontiti's charming guitar score..."Empire0.4426361

"Hou weaves a remarkably dense filigree of connections between these motifs; a great deal goes on beneath the film's placid, uneventful surface." Sight and Sound "Hou somehow cuts deep into the human heart." Uncut0.4058608

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"The subtle variations from film to film take on new shades of meaning the more time one spends in Ozu's world."A.V. Club0.1928755

"A SCREAMING MAN is a quiet, tender, finally wrenching story of an individual at the intersection of the personal and political."New York Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] moving, compassionate film, shot with near Ozu-like restraint."Total Film "Haroun shuns excitable camerawork in action scenes, preferring to hold off at a distance, and at times there's an Ozu-like austerity about his technique..."Sight and Sound "Haroun maintains a perfect tone, delicately forging scenes that are both beautiful and telling..."Film Comment0.1363836

"[A] droll and oddly touching film....The movie is a family portrait as painted by a moderately demented Cubist."New York Times0.1156149

"The hyperkinetic visuals are heavily influenced by Hollywood, with Naruse's camera constantly pushing forward."Film Comment0.1156149

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"[A] droll and oddly touching film....The movie is a family portrait as painted by a moderately demented Cubist."New York Times0.09249194

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4 stars out of 5 -- "Hsiao-Hsien has such a calm, compassionate eye that even the everyday goings-on in Binoche's boho apartment...feel touched by magic."Total Film "[Hou's] gamble more than pays off, the substance of this deceptively light and pleasingly pretty film lingering long after the red balloon bloats away."Film Comment 3 stars out of 5 -- "Hou's exquisitely crafted scenes of domestic chaos and Paris' unforgiving streets provide the perfect backdrop for his meditation on art's ability to add both strain and beauty to people's daily lives.'Empire "Binoche jolts her scenes awake....The film's sketchy, improvised dialogue springs to life in her hands....Her frazzled, human performance is the film's keystone..."Sight and Sound "Mr. Hou's films can be crushingly sad; as with Bresson and Ozu, his restraint only deepens the emotional power of his work..."New York Times "[With] floating notions about loneliness and urban beauty, frazzled adults and buffeted kids....Juliette Binoche is outstanding..."Entertainment Weekly "[A] great example of the director's even-hand and assured command of the medium....Ultimately, THE FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON feels so naturalistic and true to life that it can only be both."Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "Part of Hou's genius is imbuing this material with emotion that is genuine and tender but never sentimental. This is a slice of life that implies so much more than what's on its surface."Premiere 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he director conjures an artful combination of the mundane and the poetic that suggest magic can be found just about anywhere."Total Film0.0602736