Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 “Ugetsu,” a mystical tale of love, art and war set in 16th Century Japan, may be the most beautiful of all the world’s black-and-white films. Frame by frame, shot by shot, it ...

Plenty of people love movies, but not everybody loves movies outside of their native land. Similar to how some Americans will say that they’re foodies but only eat pizza, burgers, and chicken nuggets, ...

At once monumental and light as mist, Kenji Mizoguchi’s ravishing ghost fantasia Ugetsu (released in 1953 and set in 16th-century Japan) finds its peasant potters fleeing the circumstances of their ...

On its face, the midcentury Japanese classic Ugetsu is a “careful what you wish for” yarn. Yet there are grander dimensions to this tale of two peasant husbands (Masayuki Mori and Eitarô Ozawa) so ...

A boat carrying two young families — one, a wife and husband, the other, a wife, husband, and child — steers slowly across a mist-covered expanse of river water. The woman doing the navigating sings ...

Tale of two men in seething 16th-century Japan has a color and panorama which makes this absorbing film fare. The trials of the two men, one a potter (Masayuki Mori) who gets involved with a phantom ...

Re-creating iconic albums has become a familiar form of tribute in pop and rock, a communal celebration that usually features various musicians assembling to cover, say, Joni Mitchell’s “Blue,” The ...