In our Spring 1962 issue, this in-depth look at Mizoguchi’s now-seventy-year-old ghost tale heralded it as “possibly the greatest” of the Japanese master’s films.
By Uditha Devapriya Prasanna Vithanage’s Gaadi takes place in the last year of the Kandyan Kingdom. It begins with an encounter between Ehelepola Adigar and John D’Oyly, and moves on to scenes of the two of them negotiating the transfer of power in Kandy and the deposal of the king, Sri Vikrama Rajasinghe. In the […]
While Andrei Tarkovsky famously worked to set himself apart from the USSR, he had a complex relationship to the films of his home country. We ve listed his favorites.
The premiere of Rashomon was a watershed moment for Japanese cinema, but what was the appeal of this tale of unreliable narrators set in the far distant past? And how did the peculiarities of its initial screenings affect the way Kurosawa’s masterpiece was interpreted?