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“Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties” is absolutely fantastic and a worthy addition to any cinema fan’s film collection. Highly recommended! Image courtesy of © 1966-1968 Shochiku Co. © 2010 The Criterion Collection. All Rights Reserved. TITLE: Eclipse Series #21 – Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties DURATION: Pleasures of the Read More …
A very unique Oshima film in which the filmmaker goes full force with comedy and satire. The third film of Oshima’s Korean trilogy, Oshima manages to bring his political views of Japan’s treatment towards Koreans and the Vietnam War. Definitely a worthy film as part Read More …
“Japanese Summer: Double Suicide” is definitely a different kind of Oshima film, no doubt. Overall, “Japanese Summer: Double Suicide” is wild and crazy but pessimistically fun! Image courtesy of © 1967 Shochiku Co. © 2010 The Criterion Collection. All Rights Reserved. TITLE: Japanese Summer: Double Read More …
“Sing a Song of Sex” begins the first in Oshima’s Japan’s Korea trilogy and possibly one of his most surreal and complex films that the filmmaker has created. Image courtesy of © 1966 Shochiku Co. © 2010 The Criterion Collection. All Rights Reserved. TITLE: Sing Read More …
For fans of Nagase Oshima, “Pleasures of the Flesh” receives its Criterion Collection release via the Eclipse Series. The best looking release of the film to date and a film that captures Oshima’s style of portraying a character’s self destruction and immorality. A fantastic inclusion Read More …
BY BRAKHAGE: AN ANTHOLOGY, VOLUME 2 – DVD In Criterion’s first volume of the anthology By Brakhage, we brought twenty-six astonishing works by the avant-garde film pioneer Stan Brakhage to home video for the first time. Now, in this second installment, we are proud to Read More …