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 […]