Toshiro Mayuzumi: Japan’s musique concrète pioneer
A complex figure…
Japan
Why Takashi Miike compares his movies to “drinking a good beer”
“Pleasure doesn’t mean that it cannot change someone’s point of view.”
The pillars of innovation: three directors who defined the Japanese New Wave
Explosively original cinematic visions…
The ‘Rashomon’-style narrative behind Hirokazu Kore-eda’s tragic ‘Monster’
“You realise you’ve been seeing things wrongly.”
The Yasujirō Ozu movie Roger Ebert called “deceptively simple”
“Saw things through his films in a way that no one else saw.”
Takashi Miike’s ‘Audition’ and the critique of the male gender role
“This wire can cut through meat and bone easily.”
“Tourists go home!”: What the current Barcelona protests say about modern tourism
Catalonian vitriol and the terror of the water pistol.
The sorrow and beauty of life: Defining the films of Mike Leigh through five iconic scenes
British cinema’s greatest storyteller.
