Friends

Jul 19, 2004 — In Yasujiro Ozu’s hands, the extended-family drama widened its focus to encompass friends, neighbors, and employers.

Sep 17, 2001 — Elmar Klos and I usually work as equal partners, but in this case he left me a free hand. He knows that I am not thinking of the fate of all the six million tortured Jews, but that my work...

Jan 8, 1996 — Dodes’ka-den was made at a low point in Akira Kurosawa’s long career-perhaps the lowest that the director has ever known. In the preface of the filmmaker’s autobiography, critic and translator Audie Bock reports that Kurosawa’s commercial prospects became bleak in...

The actor and director talks about the making of some of his favorite films, including Shampoo and The Awful Truth; praises the precision of No Country for Old Men; and shares how The Friends of Eddie Coyle has inspired his...

The longtime friends and collaborators praise The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and Klute as two of the most fashionable films of all time, share in their terror of Funny Games, and recommend favorites to each other like Flow...

The celebrated actors select favorite movies starring their friends Jason Schwartzman and Jane Fonda, regale us with stories about Omar Sharif and David Lynch, and share their love for films by Hal Ashby and David Lean.

The musician and author reminisces on her formative experiences watching Federico Fellini movies with friends, shares her love for the visual and emotional composition of Yi Yi, and talks about the haunting naturalism of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s work.

The actor and star of Exhibiting Forgiveness talks about his hero, the late James Earl Jones, and his performance in Claudine; shares how Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun sparked his desire to perform; and selects films by friends...

The Academy Award–winning producer praises Claire Denis’s portrayal of masculinity in Beau travail, talks about the lessons he learned from Luis Buñuel’s producer Serge Silberman, and selects favorites by friends and collaborators, including The Last Wave, The Double Life of...

The writer, director, and actor admires the physical comedy of Pierre Etaix and the hallucinatory world of House, recalls formative experiences watching Y tu mamá también and The Virgin Suicides, and shares why he relates to the protagonist of Where...