The Criterion Collection - The Current - Mightier Than the Sword: Shinobu Hashimoto at 100. Can a screenwriter influence—even change—the course of film history?
With his script for Rashomon (1950), Shinobu Hashimoto, who turned 100 this year, did just that. The film launched its director—Akira Kurosawa—to world fame and brought international audiences to the glory of Japanese cinema. Hashimoto’s script provided the foundation for these outcomes, and though it wasn’t his first scenario, it was the first of his works produced as a film.
This was a remarkably audacious beginning for a writer who penned nearly eighty scripts during a lengthy career and who collaborated with many of the great directors in Japan’s golden age of cinema: Kurosawa, Tadashi Imai, Mikio Naruse, Kihachi Okamoto, Masaki Kobayashi. His scripts helped to build the magnificent edifice that cinema became in these years. Hashimoto’s story began, like so many in his generation, with a life derailed by the war. Hashimoto languished at the hospital, which to him seemed like a prison. Il était une fois... la révolution (1971) Explore. Explore Top 10 Lists Every month, we ask a friend—a filmmaker, a programmer, a writer, an actor, an artist—to select their ten favorite movies available from the Criterion Collection and jot down their thoughts about them.
The entries (from people like Jane Campion, Jonathan Lethem, and Sonic Youth) are often surprising, and always entertaining. Explore People Robert Bresson, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, Jeanne Moreau, Ennio Morricone, François Truffaut: there's no shortage of cinema superstars in the Criterion Collection. Take a closer look at some of the great artists who make possible the classic films in our catalog. Explore Themes Ever wonder just what is meant by "poetic realism," "New German Cinema," or "neorealism"? Quelques minutes après minuit (2016) Alps (2011) Nouveau souffle (2011) Tyrannosaur (2011) The Black Pin. Happy Hour (1996) SubUrbia (1996) Big Night (1996) The Element of Crime (1984) The Black Pin. Life in Color (2015) La La Land (2016) Israeli actor and director Ronit Elkabetz dies aged 51.
Multi-award-winning Israeli actor-director Ronit Elkabetz has died aged 51 from cancer, it has been announced.
The daughter of Moroccan immigrants, Elkabetz’s most successful film was also her most recent: Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, in which she starred as an orthodox Jewish woman attempting to obtain a religious divorce; she also co-directed and wrote it with her brother Shlomi. The film won numerous awards, and was nominated for the best foreign language film Golden Globe in 2015.
News of Elkabetz’s death was greeted with dismay across the Israeli film industry, with fellow director Amos Gitai saying: “It’s no wonder she captivated the world’s attention, she was loved by everyone ... she was simply spectacular.” Elkabetz’s breakthrough role, internationally, was The Band’s Visit, the 2007 culture-clash comedy about an Egyptian police band who are stuck in a restaurant overnight while attempting to reach an Arab cultural centre in Israel.
Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten (2014) Movie Review. Argot Pictures The conventional story of the relationship between rock ‘n’ roll and the Vietnam War is told through American and British protest music, songs of defiance that condemned a violent, seemingly endless conflict half a world away.
What is so often lost amongst these West-centric pop-countercultural stories is that rock’s wide-ranging international reach is so often overlooked. Such was the case in Vietnam-bordering Cambodia, which, until the Khmer Rouge’s 1975 coup of and subsequent administration of genocide, possessed a rich and growing popular music tradition tragically cut short by international conflict and the growing prospect of civil war.
Records were destroyed, star musicians were assassinated in the shadows, and those who survived did so by either renouncing and denying their identities as singers or producing artless propaganda for a new state governed by intimidation and blood. Learning to Drive (2014) Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus (2013) Chungking Express (1994) Grace Jones lands her first ever documentary with the BBC. BBC Films celebrated its 25th anniversary yesterday and it's giving everyone a massive present: a feature documentary about Grace Jones, the world's most magnetic, oyster-chomping, Dolph Lundgren-dating superstar.
Grace Jones – The Musical Of My Life will be the first ever doc about the life and times of Jones. What took so long, right? The film will be directed by Sophie Fiennes, who is also responsible for The Pervert's Guide To Ideology, the critically acclaimed 2012 documentary presented by the philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Fiennes' documentary on Grace Jones has reportedly been in the works for seven years, and BBC Films joins the BFI Film Fund and the Irish Film Board as co-financers. The Beeb describes the film as an "observational portrait" and "a multi-narrative journey through the private and public realms of the legendary singer and performer".
Jamaican-born Jones, now 66, once modelled for Yves Saint Laurent and Kenzo Takada and appeared on the cover of Vogue. Household Saints (1993) Burning Secret (1988) True Love (1989) Tracey Takes on New York (TV Movie 1993) MAD FOR REAL. Born in China in 1956 and 1962 respectively, Cai Yuan and Jian Jun Xi have been living and working in the United Kingdom since the 1980s.
Cai Yuan trained in oil painting at Nanjing College of Art, Chelsea College of Art and the Royal College of Art. Jianjun Xi trained at the Central Academy of Applied Arts in Beijing and later at Goldsmiths College. They started working as a performance duo in the late nineties with their action Two Artists Jump on Tracey Emin’s Bed (1999) at Tate Britain’s Turner Prize Exhibition.
Cai Yuan and Jian Jun Xi, artistic duo known as “Mad for Real”, are renowned Chinese artists known for their pioneering performances and interventions in public spaces. Their work acts as a dynamic dialogue with institutional and cultural power structures, taking the idea of the ready-made and transforming it within contemporary, everyday situations. Mad For Real's oeuvre has continually questioned the relationship of power to the individual. Exhibitions and Projects 展览和计划. Trainwreck (2015) Los muertos (2004) Dream Well (2009) Beirut, I Love You (I Love You Not) Isadora (1968) 'Til Death Do Us Part (1995) Pas lutalica (1949) Eight Miles High (2007) On a Comet (1970) The King's Baker and the Baker's King (1952) The Amateurs (2005) Chromophobia (2005) Najtužnija muzika na svetu (2003) Paris When It Sizzles (1964) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Dragi Antoan 1972 / Domaci film I. od II Deo - Dailymotion-Video. Johnny Suede (1991) The Leopard (1963) Wuthering Heights (TV Movie 2009)
Krpar, krojač, soldat, špijun (2011) Wuthering Heights (2011) - Full Cast & Crew. Black Peter (1964) Goya's Ghosts (2006) Rachel, Rachel (1968) The Andromeda Strain (1971) Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (1988) 20,000 Days on Earth (2014) Separate Lies (2005) Gosford Park (2001)