Tatsu Aoki left his native Tokyo in 1977 to study experimental film and settled in Chicago two years later. In addition to making films, he improvises, composes, and conducts music, playing bass, shamisen, and taiko drums, and by the early 1990s he’d connected with the local jazz scene, developing a particular affinity with past and […]
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No Charges in Reported Hate Crime Against Alshaibi
No charges will be filed the reported March 6 beating of filmmaker Usama Alshaibi in Fairfield, Iowa, which Alshaibi initially labeled a hate crime.
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Police Identify House, Witnesses in Alleged Alshaibi Beating
Fairfield, Iowa authorities confirm that they have identified the house and witnesses where filmmaker Usama Alshaibi was subjected to an alleged hate crime attack early Sunday.
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Almanac of Fall
In his first three films Bela Tarr–conceivably the most important Eastern European filmmaker currently working–betrays an impatience with cinematic style, focusing almost exclusively on content, but that tendency was radically overturned with this 1984 feature, whose taste and intelligence are specifically (and exquisitely) cinematic and revealed Tarr as a master stylist. Set entirely in an […]