Ryuichi Inomata's film follows "a dog named Mari and her three puppies in the aftermath" of the 2004 Chūetsu earthquake. In Japanese with English subtitles.
The latest from Studio Ghibli is director and co-writer Isao Takahata's take on a Japanese folktale about a tiny girl found in a bamboo stalk. She rapidly grows into a great beauty, but to her adoptive father's dismay, she seems unusually hesitant to marry. The updates mostly have to do …
Eric Rohmer kicks off a projected series of "Tales of the Four Seasons," an ambitious and optimistic undertaking for a man past seventy: one down, three to go. (In sheer numbers, it's not as ambitious as his series of "Moral Tales" or his series of "Comedies and Proverbs" -- six …
Eric Rohmer kicks off a projected series of "Tales of the Four Seasons," an ambitious and optimistic undertaking for a man past seventy: one down, three to go. (In sheer numbers, it's not as ambitious as his series of "Moral Tales" or his series of "Comedies and Proverbs" -- six …
At first, you might think the title of this sometimes gorgeous, sometimes visceral offering from Matteo Garrone is a sort of superlative, something like Your Show of Shows. And who could blame you? The film opens with a barren queen (Salma Hayek) visited by a spectral stranger who tells her …
South Korean creep show, directed with precision and patience by Kim Jee-woon. The few frights, as distinct from multiple perplexities and irritants, could take a day or two off your life.
A hot summer romance and a resulting child. But the mother had given her lover an incorrect address, and lost touch with him. Now it's five years later, and she has two new lovers. Yakety-yak-yak-yak-yak-yak. The second of Eric Rohmer's "Tales of the Four Seasons," and commendable mainly to devotees …
Goro "Son of Hayao" MIyazaki's takes the world created by Ursula K. Le Guin and runs with it. Dragons!
Horror anthology with an Arabian Nights (and Hansel and Gretel) framework: a chained little boy postpones his evisceration and cooking by telling scare stories to the chef. Lucky for him it wasn't up to the viewer. He may have survived the first one, featuring a reanimated mummy out of Conan …
Black takeoff on horror anthologies à la Tales from the Crypt: a vehicle for sledgehammer social comment on racism, child abuse, right-wing politics, ghetto violence. Third episode produces one funny line from a closet Klansman besieged by foot-tall slave dolls: "I'll kill ya all, ya little niglets." With Rusty Cundieff, …
Brisk horror anthology, with all stories set in one town on one night.
Powell and Pressburger's gorgeously filmed Offenbach opera.
Animator Michel Ocelot presents six fables in six different settings.
“Once upon a time in the land of films…” mutters Suleiman Ibrahim as he looks down at the abandoned projection booth floor, where gritty, unspooled yards of celluloid, curled from the Sudanese heat, crunch beneath his feet. The 35mm projectors, so dirty that it takes a leaf-blower to clean out …