Watch Meshes of the Afternoon, the Experimental Short Voted the 16th Best Film of All Time

[ad_1] It seems not to be doc­u­ment­ed whether the San­ta Ana winds were blow­ing when Maya Deren and Alexan­der Hack­en­schmied shot Mesh­es of the After­noon. But every­thing about the film itself sug­gests that they must have been, so vivid does its atmos­phere of lux­u­ri­ant­ly arid para­noia remain these 62 years lat­er. Despite its run­time of … Read more

A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926)

[ad_1] It’s a sad fact that the vast major­i­ty of silent movies in Japan have been lost thanks to human care­less­ness, earth­quakes and the grim effi­cien­cy of the Unit­ed States Air Force. The first films of huge­ly impor­tant fig­ures like Ken­ji Mizoguchi, Yasu­jiro Ozu, and Hiroshi Shimizu have sim­ply van­ished. So we should con­sid­er our­selves … Read more