Hey NYC!: Film Forum To Host Yasujirō Ozu Retrospective OZU 120 For The Month Of June!
Film Forum is partnering with Janus Films, the Harvard Film Archive and Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film, for OZU 120. The series – a selection of about three-dozen titles – runs from June 9 through 29 and is a specialized tribute to celebrated filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu, commemorating his birth, and legacy sixty years after his death.
Though the most honored director in his own country, Yasujirō Ozu (1903-1963) achieved acclaim in the West only after his death on his 60th birthday. For most of his career, this greatest of world filmmakers worked in the uniquely Japanese shomin-geki genre: uncomplicated stories about ordinary people. His favorite themes included families, fathers, and the remembered joys of childhood and college life — little of which he experienced himself. He was separated from his own father at a very young age, and never married or went to college. Ozu’s techniques are among the most eccentric and austere in cinema history: little-to-no camera movement, straight cutting from scene to scene, the unvarying low camera angle (aka “the tatami shot,” from the eye level of someone sitting on a tatami mat), unpeopled “still life” shots bridging sequences — a deceptively simple style, yet one that no other director has been able to replicate.
“If there were something like a sacred treasure of the cinema, that would have to be the work of Ozu.” – Wim Wenders
Film Forum is located at 209 W. Houston St between Varick St. and 6th Ave. in lower Manhattan. Tickets are on sale at the official website with discounts applicable to members.
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