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In Memoriam: ALAIN DELON (1935-2024)

Still from Blazing Sun (Plein soleil, 1960) The passing of Alain Delon, symbolizes the slowly fading of an era of cinema that will no longer return, however, there´s no need of mourning, because in the magic of cinema, Delon will forever be young and beautiful in the more than 100 credits that he left behind his back throughout almost six decades of work… Alain Delon was born November 8th, 1935 in Sceaux, France, after a problematic childhoold where he developed an unruly behaviourdue the lack of attention of his divorced parent, he was expelled of school several times and at the age of 17, the future French cinema icon enrolled in te French Navy, serving as paratrooper during 1953 to 1954 fighting to maintain the French Indochina, before being dishonourably discharged for theft… Nobody is perfect, folks. On his return to France he had to do some odd jobs to […]

Japan Society’s THE OTHER JAPANESE NEW WAVE: RADICAL FILMS FROM 1958-61 Looks To Do Rare Post WWII Films Justice

Lee B. Golden III

Japan Society is advancing a new film series next month with The Other Japanese New Wave: Radical Films from 1958-61. Author and researcher Go Hirasawa is curating the series which kicks off its slate of unearthed shorts and features from Japan’s bygone era of post-WWII cinema from April 5th through April 27th. With its inception in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the New Wave movement in Japan ushered in a postwar generation of politically engaged and artistically adventurous filmmakers that radically transformed the country’s cinema in theory and practice. Looking beyond internationally lauded figures such as Nagisa Oshima and Masahiro Shinoda, this 11-film series aims to re-examine this dynamic moment in Japanese film history with the introduction of work by lesser-known studio directors, independent auteurs, documentarists and student filmmakers that gave birth to the New Wave, including newly subtitled rarities never-before-seen in the U.S. Hirasawa’s own statement at the […]