Toto's Paradise

[...] Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari, 1953) is about an elderly couple who visit their grown children in the city [...]

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[...] for cinema and failed youthful romance. 1. TOKYO STORY (Screenwriter and Director: Yasujiro Ozu / 1953) An elderly couple who visits their grown children in the city must face their [...]

[...] Yasujiro Ozu. Zhang Yimuo. Francois Truffaut. Akira Kurosawa. Giuseppe Tornatore. Ingmar Bergman. Federico [...]

[...] as the couple becomes a burden to their children’s busy lives. It was written by Yasujiro Ozu and Kogo Noda. It was directed by Yasujiro Ozu. Its brilliant cast includes Chishu Ryu, [...]

[...] has made her an instrument of injustice. 3. RASHOMON (Screenwriters: Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto / Director: Akira Kurosawa / 1950) A priest, a woodcutter and a commoner [...]

[...] Yasujiro Ozu. Zhang Yimuo. Francois Truffaut. Akira Kurosawa. Giuseppe Tornatore. Ingmar Bergman. Federico Fellini. Alfred Hitchcock. Vittorio de Sica. [...]

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[...] in my list of favorites hits the screen, I’ve come up with my tentative list of top ten films. I wrote their loglines the way I understood each movie. (I might be wrong with some of [...]

[...] behavior of a college buddy’s wife. 7. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Screenwriter and Director: Wong Kar Wai / 2000) A man and a woman who discover that their spouses are lovers must fight their growing [...]

[...] Bergman. Federico Fellini. Alfred Hitchcock. Vittorio de Sica. Woody Allen. Robert Altman. Wong Kar Wai. Peter Weir. M. Night Shyamalan. Alexander Payne. Majid Majidi. David Mamet. Fabian Bielinsky. [...]

[...] Story defies Hollywood convention. Unlike most Hollywood films, Tokyo Story has no real villain, no confrontations and/or progression of obstacles, no real [...]

In the spirit (pun intended) of Halloween, I picked out five of the scariest movies I’ve seen. 5. THE EXORCIST (Screenwriter - William Peter Blatt [...]

Yes, I Saw All of Them in Person in 2007 (and that's only during the second half of the year!) Charlie Kaufman Although it was a fleeting moment, it [...]

Here are some more of my favorite films which were not included in my previous poster list. [...]

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[...] . Since then, I came home with a bagful of rented videos every weekend. I rented all the Hitchcock films that I could find. Part of the fun of watching Hitchcock films was a little game which my [...]