|Riccardo Williams| n October 2025, I saw Hausu for the first time ever at The Trylon. I was so moved that I immediately went home and could not find a way to get the movie out of my head. After sitting and thinking about it for about an hour, I asked one of my friends who I thought would like the movie to watch it with me over video call. And so I had seen… Continue reading
|Matthew Christensen| In 2006 I moved from Minneapolis to Japan to teach English in one of the large adult language schools they have there. It was a good job, and my students were an enjoyable eclectic assortment of businessmen and women, housewives, retired folks, and high school students. One of the textbooks contained a simplified retelling… Continue reading
|Natalie Marlin| In the dawning hours of the morning, a grocer (Bengal) wakes to the still-blue fading night. The framing is methodical, delicate, but not at all static. The grocer Haruzo’s body stirs from bed, but the camera lingers on his wife Michi (Masako Motai) stirring and rolling… Continue reading
