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Features

The Director’s Studio: Shochiku

By Chuck Stephens
June 1, 2011
Home to Ozu’s delicately daft “home dramas” and hearth to the Oshima-ignited hellfire of the Japanese “New Wave,” the perpetually modern and perennially conservative Shochiku Studios celebrates the 110th anniversary of its extraordinary career

Caught: Mikio Naruse

By Chris Fujiwara
June 1, 2011
Chris Fujiwara examines the ouvre of Japanese master and women's director

Rules of Engagement: Morgan Fisher’s cinema of refusal and reflexivity

By Jim Supanick
June 1, 2011
On the great structural materialist

Mission Statement

By Gavin Smith
June 1, 2011
Paul Greengrass discusses the creative process behind his reconstruction of the worst day in history

Wake Up and Smell the New World

By Chris Fujiwara
June 1, 2011
Making John Waters and Walter Reade Jr. proud, the Japanese revive smelling what you see

Against the Grain: Ram Gopal Varma

By Grady Hendrix
June 1, 2011
Ram Gopal Varma, Bollywood’s most unBollywood director

All in the Family

By Kent Jones
May 31, 2011
The Democratic Humor of Christopher Guest

Best Laid Plans

By Geoffrey O’Brien
May 31, 2011
Fabián Bielinsky’s hypnotic swan song

New Hollywood: Paul Mazursky

By Richard Corliss
May 31, 2011
The Horace with a heart of gold

Riding the Whirlwind: Norman Mailer interview

By Michael Chaiken
May 31, 2011
Norman Mailer talks with Michael Chaiken about his independent filmmaking exploits