Directed by Kei Kumai. With Eiji Okuda, Toshirô Mifune, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Gô Katô. Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death. Years before: Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in…

Zen, edo, Japan

The iconic cartoons of The New Yorker have become an instantly recognizable cultural touchstone over the past 90 years, and Leah Wolchock's intimate documentary offers an unprecedented glimpse into the process behind the cartoons. The film follows cartoon editor Bob Mankoff as he sifts through hundreds of submissions and pitches every week to bring readers a carefully curated selection of insightful and humorous work.

cartoons, The New Yorker

Every human being on this earth should watch “Black Rain” by Shohei Imamura. The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.

Japanese cinema, movies, nuclear nostalgia

Premiering on Hulu this fall, this feature length documentary from director Josh Greenbaum (Becoming Bond, The Short Game) will take a fresh and irreverent look at the successes and humorous missteps of a show that brought together an amazing slew of future comedy giants before they were household names. Featuring interviews with Dana Carvey, Robert Smigel, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, and more, the film will explore the creation of the show as the brainchild of two of Saturday Night Live's most beloved alumni, the twists and turns of its brief life on air, and its legacy-one of stellar careers, lasting relationships, and an affirmation that in art, risks are always worth taking.

comedy nerd

From the opening titles, with their circling spiral imagery, to the dramatic final scene this is a movie that takes you to a different time and place. Specifically, to a San Francisco of the past; full of deserted parks, discrete rooming houses, oddly menacing art galleries and florists where the customers enter and exit through the back door.

movies, Hitchcock

Gosh, I had totally forgot Rodney Dangerfield plays the abusive dad! // Directed by Oliver Stone. With Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield. Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

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Old Robocop is flawless, new Robocop, amazingly, is almost that good.

science fiction, movies

“I believe many of you here haven't watched Stalker? Or at least haven't watched it more than 20 times, like I have”. Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche - in Moscow, 2009. // Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. With Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko. A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

movies, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Stalker

After a nuclear accident in the north of Spain, a vast exclusion zone was set up to contain the risk of radioactive propagation a series of murders leads Héctor, the police chief who survived the catastrophe, to embark on an investigation to find the culprit.

nuclear nostalgia, series

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator. Directed by David Lean. With Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox.

movies, imperialism, culture shock