Five films that successfully temper heavy social analysis with laughs.
Tag: Shohei Imamura
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Pretty Butterflies reminds you not to judge a festival film by its title
Salvatore Mereu’s spirited portrait of Sardinia’s lower depths is not that pretty at all.
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The year in movie revivals, H through N
The second in a three-part series on the year’s best repertory screenings
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This spring Doc Films remembers a creative revolution
Previewing a series devoted to the films of Japan’s Art Theater Guild
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What I learned from Shohei Imamura’s documentaries
Final thoughts on the extraordinary nonfiction series that just ended at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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Treasure, treachery, pirates, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue.
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What’s up, doc(umentary filmmakers)?
Considering the relationship between fiction and nonfiction filmmakers
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Evening for a lady of the evening
Shohei Imamura’s 1975 documentary Karayuki-San profiles a former victim of forced prostitution in Japan.
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This weekend, disregard journalistic neutrality with the documentaries of Shohei Imamura
Previewing the six-film retrospective beginning this weekend at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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The first knockout of 2013, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue.
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Late, great planet earth …
Katsuhito Ishii’s The Taste of Tea finds a valedictory angle on our ecological discontents.
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Free to Roam
If you saw Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry you may recall a joke told by the Turkish taxidermist: When a man complains to a doctor that every part of his body hurts—”When I touch my chest, that hurts; when I touch my arm and my leg, my arm and my leg hurt”—the doctor suggests that […]