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According to The Digital Bits: From Anchor Bay: A Better Tomorrow (1/16) John Woo A Better Tomorrow 2 (1/16) John Woo From Fantoma: Coffin Joe: At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (4/3) Jose Mojica Coffin Joe: This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (4/3) Jose Mojica Coffin Joe: Awakening of the...

Kurosawa's Madadayo has just been released on HK DVD - English-subtitled, letterboxed, all region - from Mei Ah 11/15 Shunji Iwai's Swallowtail Butterfly Limited and Standard Editions - removable English subs, letterboxed, Region 2 Robert Kramer's film is due on 19/19? Is that NASA notation...

Good review. Ozu's films are near perfection, so wise. His co-writer Kogo Noda wrote movingly about An Autumn Afternoon (from Richie's study): While he was shooting Kohayagawa [Me: The End of Summer], Shochiku [Me: the studio] was already after him for the title of his next film. So he...

I noticed this irony and have been thinking about the interaction between the off- and on-screen, the strange mimicry of art and life, how one envelops the other, how roles and the direction of roles often leave an insidious residue capable of disintegrating real-life. There are numerous...

It is encouraging to see a community's perceptions and enjoyments generally shift for the better. Not too long ago, in this forum, a couple of nitwits derailed a Satyajit Ray thread and nearly drove away one of HTF's supreme contributors. --- The following is in reference to the Charulata...

To paraphrase Bresson "art" movies (those shown in "art" houses) are most devoid of it. If "foreign" where do we draw the line? Before the incessant hordes of anime, Bollywood and Hong Kong movies on DVD? If "international" aren't U.S. movies international, too? Sorry for being pedantic...

I will be happy to, Pascal, but please wait until next week. The notes are presently not with me...

Pascal, I have actually met and spoken with Charulata, the actress Madhabi Mukherjee. I took notes on her thoughts about the film among other topics. If you're interested, I'll dig out and post some of her thoughts here.