The Criterion Collection
Feb 19, 2007 — For a director whose vision is so frequently called pessimistic, Mikio Naruse’s drama exhibits a lightness of touch, deft and coolly understated, like its cocktail jazz score.
Jul 31, 2012 — Aki Kaurismäki’s latest working-class fable is his warmest, and his most political.
The Daily
Nov 4, 2025 — BAM presents new restorations of Paris Awakens (1991) and A New Life (1993).