Anthology Film Archives

This program consists of recent short films covered in Millennium Film Journal No. 79. Descriptive texts below are excerpted from the issue.
The Millennium Film Workshop gratefully acknowledges support for the Millennium Film Journal by the following individuals and organizations: Deborah and Dan Duane; Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation; Anonymous donors; and New York State Council...

(UMARETE WA MITA KEREDO…)
In referring to this film Ozu stated, “I started to make a film about grownups. While I had originally planned to make a fairly bright little story, it changed while I was working on it and came out very dark.” The story concerns a very average suburban...

(CHICHI ARIKI)
“One of Ozu’s most perfect films. There is a naturalness and a consequent feeling of inevitability that is rare in cinema […] Critics have called the performance of Chishu Ryu in this film one of the best in the history of Japanese cinema, and they are...

New preservation print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
Shot at New York’s The Kitchen just six months before Ron Vawter died, filmmaker Jill Godmilow’s version of ROY COHN/JACK SMITH remixes Vawter’s celebrated theater piece by intercutting its two acts. Whereas the original stage production was divided...