Ozu is one of the great directors of world cinema, but beyond the critical favourite Tokyo Story, his wider work remains little known outside his native Japan. Ben Walters reviews one of his late films, made just a year before his death in 1963
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Homosexuality and Orthodox Judaism may not seem like easy bedfellows (if you’ll excuse the pun), but together they form the central subject of this ground-breaking documentary by Sandy Dubowski. Ben McCann explains
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They swept into town with all the subtlety of a Shaw Brothers finale, and were gone before you could say chop-socky – but Ben Walters managed to catch up with Quentin and the gang at the official Kill Bill press conference at the Dorchester Hotel
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The bfi’s Modern Classic series has become one of the most respected forums for serious film criticism since Les Cahiers du Cinema. Ben Walters enjoys a new title on Curtis Hanson’s complex modern-day noir
»Before Elephant was wowing audiences at Cannes, Gus Van Sant released this experimental film about two guys named Gerry lost in the American desert. Ben Walters reckons Van Sant has rediscovered his voice
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Cédric Klapisch’s latest film centres on the lives and loves of a multi-national group of exchange students in Barcelona – but Ben Walters reckons it doesn’t make the grade
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