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Criterion's THE GRADUATE, Plus Chaplin, Oshima, Troell, And More Coming In February
And here's to you, Criterion Collection! The home video company just announced its February 2016 slate of releases, topped by Mike Nichols' The Graduate. Dustin Hoffman's star-making performance as recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock, who begins an affair with spiky...
NYC Happenings: Oshima's IT'S ME HERE, BELLETT and Eight Experimental Shorts by Tezuka, Rarities at Japan Society
For the past few months, New Yorkers have been treated to some great programs of rarely-screened films by major Japanese filmmakers at Japan Society. In the monthly film series "The Dark Side of the Sun: John Zorn on Japanese Cinema,"...
Japanese Provocateur Ôshima Nagisa Passes Away at 80
Ôshima Nagisa, the brilliant, transgressive director behind films like In the Realm of the Senses, Cruel Story of Youth and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, has passed away at the age of 80. He was most well-known for the explicit, controversial...
