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Masao Adachi in 2015. Photograph by David Matthew Davis.
Masao Adachi is a filmmaker whose reputation well and truly proceeds him.
Born in 1939 in Kyushu, Japan, he moved to Tokyo to attend Nihon University,…
Stanley Kubrick would not appear, at first glance, to have the stuff of a Kubrickian hero. He did not in any sense resemble the ringleader of a racetrack heist, a colonel or a soldier of fortune, not an astronaut or a droog or Tom Cruise. He wore a uniform…
One of the great Berlin films, Uli Edel’s Christiane F. (1981) is also one of the grungiest. Based on the true story of teenage heroin user and sex worker Christiane Felscherinow and shot on location in and around West Berlin’s notorious Zoo Station, the film captures both the magnetic…
Andrzej Żuławski's grotesque vision of a marriage collapsing is an unnerving reflection of our increasingly disconnected world. If handled with care, could a remake remind us of what we stand to lose?
Over the past…
Pieced together from Eleanor Coppola’s behind-the-scenes footage and journal entries, this intimate documentary becomes a moving portrait of a mother witnessing her daughter’s artistry.
Making-of documentaries tend to be a mixed-bag proposition. They can risk…
Cinderella (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, 1950).
In the early 2000s, stores including Barneys and Hot Topic briefly stocked saucy T-shirts depicting classic Disney characters, including, as James B. Stewart describes it in the…
This November, discover the link between pop style and turn-of-the-century cinema’s exuberant visual innovation with From MTV to Hollywood, a collection gathering work from directors who honed their imaginations making music videos before unleashing their talents on the big screen. A Nicolas Cage retrospective looks back at…
Welcome! This is another Sunday edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter, and here’s the plan:
1. Reiko Okuyama, artist.
2. Animation newsbits.
3. The last…
Carol Morley’s bittersweet chronicle of youth in revolt is lovingly ripped from the pages of her own memoir and is one of the finest British films of 2026.
If the British filmmaker Terence Davies had…
Exploring the best in animation from all around the world — part investigation, part treasure hunt.
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