The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer.

Kenji Mizoguchi (May 16, 1898 – August 24, 1956) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu (1953) won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight ...

Located in a strip mall at Tyler Station, this micro-cinema offers niche, curated screenings of smaller films from well-respected international directors like Abbas Kiarostami and Kenji Mizoguchi.

Ugetsu (1953), also known as Ugetsu Monogatari, by Kenji Mizoguchi, an epic of love and war in 16th-century Japan, is one of the masterpieces of Japanese cinema.

The Buffalo Film Seminars is back for its 50th — yes, 50th — edition, and the popular series hosted by UB faculty members Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian continues with another semester chock full ...

The monster’s original name, Gojira, was a mash-up of the Japanese terms for gorilla and whale. He has roots in a real-life incident in 1954. Take a look 1954 was a strange year for cinema ...

Howard Hawks’ “His Girl Friday,” Michael Mann’s “Heat,” Jacques Tati’s “Mon Oncle” and Kenji Mizoguchi’s “Street of Shame.” From Sept. 1-8 at Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N ...

Taking inspiration from the abstract work of Japanese filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi, the two linked up last summer for a nighttime shoot on a small pond.

TOKYO -- The Japanese film industry has produced many internationally celebrated filmmakers over the decades, from Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi to Hirokazu Kore-eda and Ryusuke Hamaguchi. But ...

One of my seminal movie experiences was a college class taught by Gilberto Perez, around 1977, in political cinema, focussing on John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Sergei Eisenstein. At nearly fifty ...

Isabelle Huppert plays a grieving French author on a cathartic book tour in Élise Girard's mellow, modest charmer 'Sidonie in Japan.' ...

While based in Tokyo, she studied the work of filmmakers like Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi. "I was heavily influenced by Japanese films," she says. Hence her decision to siwtch careers.