Inferno certainly delivers all the death that we could want. Just be careful what you wish for...
By Anton Bitel
The eighties was a difficult time or Alain Resnais, as this new boxset testifies.
For what it’s worth then, Burning Bright is better than Snakes on a Plane and, with a title that refers to William Blake, at least it doesn’t nail its colours to the wall too early.
A brave and committed film about a hard and complex place.
By Tom Seymour
Ozu's measured family drama is a model of restraint and stillness that packs a real emotional punch.
By Anton Bitel
Caked in period quaintness and dripping in the primal perennial of lust, Casanova '70 is a lot of fun.
Here, as in Ozu's earlier Late Spring, Hara Setsuko plays an unmarried woman named Noriko, but Early Summer is, in keeping with the shift in seasons, an altogether lighter, brighter affair.
By Anton Bitel
In this domestic drama, a post-war family's unconventional disposition is revisited by the traditional imperative to marry, with bittersweet results. Lives are in flux, even as Ozu's camera remains still.
By Anton Bitel