Profound Desires of the Gods first published by Little White Lies “The islanders aren’t particularly clever, so they get their stories and reality all mixed up. It just shows how simple and pure they are.” This is what Kariya (Kazuo Kitamura) says of his one-time Okinawan hosts near the end of Profound Desires of the…
Vengeance Is Mine first published by EyeforFilm, 29 Oct 2005 Shohei Imamura worked his apprenticeship as an assistant to the great Yasujiro Ozu on Early Summer (1951), The Flavour Of Green Tea Over Rice (1952) and Tokyo Story (1953), but the younger director despised the stately middle-class classicism of his mentor, preferring his own films to be “messy”….
Robert De Niro famously put on 60 pounds to play the older Jake La Motta in Raging Bull. Christian Bale lost 63 pounds to play the emaciated lead in The Machinist. Tom Hardy transformed his then puny physique into a solid wall of muscle and sinew for Bronson. And Demi Moore and Natalie Portman both…
Pigs and Battleships (Buta to Gunkan) first published by Little White Lies Pigs and Battleships (Buta to gunkan), the fifth feature to have been made for Nikkatsu by Shôhei Imamura, opens with a clash of sound and image that sets the tone for the entire film. As we see the Japanese studio’s logo, the drum roll on…