Director Yasujiro OZU’s Retrospective in Manhattan

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Eric Grode, Ozu and His Afterlives. New York Times, Nov 28, 2013.

Note:
(a) Somehow the report does not appear in the newspaper’s website or the Web. The full text is attached.
(b) A film festival in honor of Japanese director Yasujiro OZU 小津 安二郎 (1903-1963; died of cancer):

Ozu and His Afterlives, Film Society of Lincoln Center, “Wednesday [Dec 4] through December 12.”
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/ozu-and-his-afterlives

* One of the featured film is
Aki KAURISMÄKI's 1990 film The Match Factory Girl.

Aki Kaurismäki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Kaurism%C3%A4ki(1957- a Finnish film director)
(b) An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu’s final work; Japanese title: 秋刀魚の味 sanma no aji whose literal translation was The Taste of Mackerel Pike)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Autumn_Afternoon

* Pacific saury
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_saury
(Cololabis saira; also known by the name mackerel pike; 秋刀魚 [in Japanese, Korean and Chinese] mean "autumn knife fish", in reference to its body shape, somewhat resembling a knife, and its peak season; found in the North Pacific, from Japan eastward to the Gulf of Alaska and southward to subtropical Mexico)

(c) Equinox Flower
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox_Flower
(Japanese title: 彼岸花, higanbana)
(d) Café Lumière  珈琲時光
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_Lumi%C3%A8re
(Distributed by Sōchiku 松竹 株式会社; Language  Japanese)
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Ozu and His Afterlives (Wednesday through December 12)  Last year news broke that “vertigo” had ousted “Citizen Kane” from the top of Sight & Sound magazine’s ranking of the greatest movies, but a parallel ranking list by 358 directors got less notice. That gave top honors to an altogether different film: “Tokyo Story 東京物語,” the devastating 1953 family chronicle by the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963). So it seems appropriate for the Film Society of Lincoln Center to honor him with a series that also includes his artistic torchbearers.

Restorations of Ozu’s “An autumn Afternoon,” The 1962 film starring, above from left, Chishu RYU 笠 智衆 [a man], Mariko OKADA 岡田 茉莉子, Shima IWASHITA 岩下 志麻 and Kenji SADA 佐田 啓二, and “Equinox Flower,” from 1958, will be shown over several days. In addition, this nine-work retrospective includes recent films that pay varying degrees of homage to Ozu. Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 2004 “Café Lumière” (Wednesday at $:30 PM and next Friday at 7:30 ) had its premiere at an Ozu-theme film festival, while the German directo Wim Wenders traveled to Tokyo and interviewed some of Ozu’s collaborators for his 1985 documentary, “Tokyo-Ga 東京 画” (Wednesday at 9:30 pm). Claire Denis (“35 Shots of Rum,” Dec 7 and 10) and Jim Jarmusch *”Stranger Than Paradise,” Dec 12), art-film heavy hitters who also tipped their hats to the master, also made the cut. Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, 144 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, (212) 875-5601, filmlinc.com; $13. (Eric Grode)