Osaka Elegy
Kenji Mizoguchi
Japan,
1936
A critical and popular triumph, Osaka Elegy established Mizoguchi as one of Japan’s major filmmakers. The director's often-used leading actress Isuzu Yamada stars as Ayako, a switchboard operator trapped in a compromising, ruinous relationship with her boss to help support her wastrel father. With its fluid cinematography and deft storytelling, Osaka Elegy ushered in a new era of sound melodrama for Mizoguchi.
Details
- 71 min
- B&W
- 1.33:1
Formats
- DVD
Latest Releases
-
A retrospective of the French New Wave filmmaker’s influential career, featuring all five of his features and a selection of short films.
-
One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, SEVEN SAMURAI tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
Akira Kurosawa Japan, 1954
DCP, 35 mm, 16 mm, Blu-ray, DVD -
New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard.
Wim Wenders France, 1984
DCP, Blu-ray, DVD -
Legendary Iranian New Wave director Bahram Beyzaie’s sophomore feature possesses both the epic dimensions of myth and the hallucinatory atmosphere of a dream.
Bahram Beyzaie Iran, 1974
DCP -
Directed by visionary science-fiction animator René Laloux (Fantastic Planet) and designed by the legendary Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Mœbius) The Time Masters is a visually fantastic foray into existentialist space adventure.
René Laloux France, 1982
DCP, Blu-ray