For 55 years Youssef Chahine made films, and he is without doubt the premier Egyptian filmmaker. Indeed, he is indisputably one of the luminaries of world cinema, to which his Lifetime Achievement Award at Cannes in 1997 testifies. His most remarkable work began in the late 1950s (and includes the 1958 Cairo Station—Bab el hadid) […]
Daily Archives: January 21, 2010
A fine, flavorful Japanese film that is somewhat reminiscent of two 1950s Hollywood films, the airy, schematic Shane (George Stevens, 1953) and the fuller, warmer Come Next Spring (R.G. Springsteen, 1955), Yôji Yamada’s Haruka naru yama no yobigoe is set on a small dairy farm in Hokkaido in northern Japan. Running the farm is Tamiko […]
Dennis Grunes 