Benedict is a college graduate with a degree in Film and Screen Media and a future unemployed Letterboxd user. He got into movies through a childhood love of blockbusters and comic book movies, and ...

Ozu Yasujiro, the leading Japanese film director behind classics including “Tokyo Story” and “Late Spring,” has had his double birth and death anniversaries – Ozu died in 1963 on the day of his 60th ...

The Criterion Collection’s newest box set, featuring a silent film by Yasujiro Ozu and his remake of that film 25 years later, is a fascinating look at the changes and continuities of the acclaimed ...

Yasujirō Ozu began his directorial career began in 1927 but didn’t make a sound film until 1937, and 1932’s I Was Born, But… is notable for the paucity of surtitles, Ozu telling an emotionally complex ...

J.K. Simmons urged a captive audience to give their parents a call two weeks ago in his Oscar acceptance speech, and with that advice in mind—and with many of us returning home for the break—now seems ...