Kogonada Movies

The cinema of Koreeda Hirokazu is defined by moments of everyday life. Whatever potential there is for heightened drama – the suicide of a...

Filmmaker Kogonada reflects on women and mirrors in the films of Ingmar Bergman.

In 1993, the original negatives of Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy were burned in a massive nitrate fire at a laboratory in London. Even though...

Kogonada's visual essay about the formalistice choices of master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick

A visual essay on the tactile world of Robert Bresson created for the Criterion Collection.

People constantly appear walking through passageways in the films of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu (1903-63). His art resides in the...

In the 1960s, pioneering French New Wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard introduced the world to a new cinematic lexicon, generated from his innovative,...

Tarantino // From Below Music: Kaifuku Suru Kizu by Salyu

A visual essay for "La dolce vita," directed by Kogonada for the Criterion Collection.

Filmmaker ::kogonada explores director Ingmar Bergman’s “Cries and Whispers," a film in three movements.

"I wanted to write a fantasy with the atomic bomb as the theme." – Nobuhiko Obayashi