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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2009: Watching the Watchers ("Shirin," Kiarostami, Iran)

23Jun09

Abbas Kiarostami's new experimental film stars Juliette Binoche among a cast of women who are audience members of a movie that Kiarostami never shows us, instead focusing on the women's faces.

Now in theaters: "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" (Scott, USA)

22Jun09

by Daniel Kasman

What do we do with Tony Scott’s new film, another movie version of John Godey’s book, and an old-school picture of conventional urban crime in an era where such a thing is only understandable as terrorism?

Province of the Wretched, Part I: Lockdown

22Jun09

by Ryland Walker Knight

Linked by their concerns with sexuality, if not by the near simultaneous release of their films on DVD, Nagisa Oshima and Shohei Imamura belong to that needling New Wave that began slightly after the more famous French version.

pages from a cold island: (NO) FEAR OF FLYING

17Jun09

by Neil Young

A collection of the dramatic critical and official reactions to Lars von Trier's new film, _Antichrist_, which premiered at this year's Cannes Film Festival to much controversy.

15Dec08

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Oshima: Chasing Shadows

by David Phelps

Oshima: Chasing Shadows is a four part series of articles on Nagisa Oshima written during the recent touring retrospective on the director. This post is a table of contents for the series and will be updated as the series is published.

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Trailer for Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1968)

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Oshima: Artists and Lovers, Take One (of Four)

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Oshima: Theater of the Revolution, Take Two (of Four)

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Oshima: Perspective Matters, Take Three (of Four)

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Oshima: A World of Their Own (Chasing Shadows, Take Four of Four)

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The North American tour of In the Realm of Oshima: The Films of Japanese Master Nagisa is curated by James Quandt and organized by Cinematheque Ontario and will screen at approximately a dozen cities in the United States and Canada in the coming year.

Categories: Oshima, NYFF