Tag: ushioshinohara

Welcome Back to The Stack. I'm Dave Canfield, here to help guide you through the last few weeks of DVD and Blu-ray releases. All sorts of stuff has come across my path since I last did an episode and this...

In Cutie and the Boxer, an intimate documentary by Zachary Heinzerling, we are introduced to the Shinoharas -- Ushio and Noriko, both Japanese transplants/New York based artists, in their habitat, contemplating about the massive unpaid bills. "How much?" Ushio asks....

It's a sunny Friday afternoon in early August. I am waiting outside of an old three-story building in DUMBO, in what used to be an old, industrial neighborhood of Brooklyn, right across the East River from Manhattan. The neighborhood has...

The Shinoharas, Ushio and Noriko, two elderly artists residing in Brooklyn, are the subjects of Zachary Heinzerling's great little documentary, Cutie and the Boxer. It chronicles the couple's beautiful and sometimes rocky relationship with uncluttered eyes. The result is one...