on film
orion magazine
Fake Plants —on Altman’s The Long Goodbye
Out of Shape—on Weersasethakul’s Syndromes and a Century
Refusing to Leave—on Ozu’s Late Spring and Park’s Decision to Leave
The Imagination of the Tiny—on Innerspace and The Incredible Shrinking Man
Nice Monsters—on Chabrol’s La Cérémonie and Bong’s Parasite
Joint Restoration—on Reichardt’s First Cow and Showing Up and racial dyads
Through the Eye of a Fish—on Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Frankenheimer’s Seconds and the fisheye lens
The Rule of Science—on bonsai plants, aesthetic control, and Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In
the new yorker
What Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs” Gets Right
Watching Tokyo Through the Eyes of Outsiders
Hayao Miyazaki’s Anti-Comfort Movie
the new york review of books
Songs of Convenience—on Ozu
the baffler
The Eyes of Lacy—on Annie Baker’s Janet Planet
criterion collection
On Hideko Takamine: Naruse’s When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
metrograph
Machiko Kyo: Japan’s White Witch
film comment
On Atsuko Maeda and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “To the Ends of the Earth”
mubi
misc.
on photography
the new yorker
A Japanese Photographer’s View of Life in His One-Room Family Home
aperture magazine
Rinko Kawauchi: The Shape of Things