Word: ozu
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...furiously. It's insanely vigorous fun that's guaranteed to delight video action fans on four continents. Kim Ki Duk's Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring starts as a tale of spiritual apprenticeship (boy taught by old monk) that might have come from the contemplative Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu; then this Korean film spirals into obsession and murder but without ever upsetting its gorgeously subtle cinematic palette...
...people and the most barbaric. Western directors like Alain Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour) and Steven Spielberg (who will achieve a Japanese trilogy if he ever adds the long-deferred Memoirs of a Geisha to 1941 and Empire of the Sun) have joined such local masters as Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu and Nagisa Oshima in trying to define the bold, elusive Japanese psyche...
...challenging directors of the new millennium. As founder of Dogma 95, the filmic manifesto equal parts mocking and serious, he created a mission statement to scale down cinema and bring an honesty, directness,and more personal style that was previously found in filmmaking giants such as Bresson, Dreyer and Ozu. This decree has spawned the use of handheld video over 35mm film, as well as bizarre filmic experiments such as julien donkey-boy, Mifune and The Celebration...