Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 “Ugetsu,” a mystical tale of love, art and war set in 16th Century Japan, may be the most beautiful of all the world’s black-and-white films. Frame by frame, shot by shot, it ...

A band which names itself after an Art Blakey album wears its heart on its sleeve, or rather its jewel case. The instrumental lineup here is exactly the same as the Jazz Messengers edition that ...

The term "West Coast Jazz often recalls images of Hermosa Beach's Lighthouse and an echelon of players associated with the cool school. Lesser known is the contemporary Northwest Coast scene centered ...

Tale of two men in seething 16th-century Japan has a color and panorama which makes this absorbing film fare. The trials of the two men, one a potter (Masayuki Mori) who gets involved with a phantom ...

On its face, the midcentury Japanese classic Ugetsu is a “careful what you wish for” yarn. Yet there are grander dimensions to this tale of two peasant husbands (Masayuki Mori and Eitarô Ozawa) so ...

Details: 1953, Japan, Rest of the world, UK, Cert NC, 93 mins Direction: Kenji Mizoguchi Summary: In war-torn sixteenth century Japan, a potter and a farmer leave their respective wives, one to become ...