By Andrew Sarris 6/12/00 12:00am

All About My Mother in Japan: A Boy’s Bottomless Sorrow

Kikujiro is best described by its writer-director-editor-star, Takeshi Kitano, who for 25 years has been Japan’s updated version of Orson Welles. “I couldn’t help feeling that my films were being stereotyped, ‘gangster, violence, life and death.’ It became difficult for me to identify with them. So I decided to try and make a film Read More

By Andrew Sarris 5/18/98 12:00am

Two Men We’ve Loved, Hopeful Yet World-Weary

Sadly, in terms of the merciless camera, Robert Redford and Warren Beatty will never see sweet 60 again, which these days usually doesn’t inhibit good-looking male stars from scoring with chicks on the screen. But what is a little unusual about these two Hollywood heartthrobs is that each has seen the handwriting on the wall, Read More