This month, Chicago filmgoers are lucky enough to experience not one but four genre-defining anime classics on the silver screen as part of Anime Auteurs, a series put on by Facets.
Tag: Japanese film
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New directors in a new year
CJFC’s New Year’s Screening asks an American audience to consider the frailty and necessity of art in a mire of human difficulty and loneliness.
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Drive My Car
The film mesmerizes the viewer with scenes of renewal, intoxicating vulnerability, and shocking anguish that at its core are severely human.
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In Asako I & II Ryûsuke Hamaguchi wonders if human longing is innate or instilled by something beyond us
Who hasn’t experienced heightened emotional states at moments of crisis or epiphany?
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The Siskel Center revisits a transformative era in the career of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima
The Siskel Center presents an eight-film retrospective of the trailblazing Japanese filmmaker.
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CIFF notes: The Drudgery Train
First impressions of the Japanese coming-of-age picture playing at the Chicago International Film Festival
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The films of Mikio Naruse and Hideko Takamine
An interview with Doc Films programmer Edo Choi about the current Mikio Naruse/Hideko Takamine series.
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25 Films by Akira Kurosawa, on Sale
Definitive box set from the Japanese director on sale this week