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Anton Walbrook and Michael Powell on the set of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

As Locarno heads ...

Yasujiro Ozu’s Floating Weeds (1959)

“Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams,” says the unnamed narrator of Haruki Murakami’s 1998 novel Dance Dance Dance. “I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.”

That ineffable quality of the season is captured in

Madison Pankey in Rob Tregenza’s Fast (2026)

“Shoot it fast and hard and beautiful like Ida Lupino shot Fast, Hard, and Beautiful.” As Rob Tregenza recalls it in his wide-ranging conversation with

Kyoko Kagawa and So Yamamura in Mikio Naruse’s Little Peach (1958)

In a career spanning seventy-five years, Kyoko Kagawa has made lasting impressions as the youngest daughter of aging parents in Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story (1953), the sister of an escaped slave in Kenji Mizoguchi’s Sansho the Bailiff (1954), the wife of a wealthy in...

Patrick Wang’s A Bread Factory (2018)

Patrick Wang’s A. Rimbaud, a one-man, three-hour biopic starring Blake Draper as the nineteenth-century French poet, has been gradually building a dedicated audience and selling out screenings since its premiere a...