Still crazy after all these years, Shohei Imamura’s Warm Water Under a Red Bridge premiered in 2001 and would prove to be the Japanese auteur’s final film. Imamura’s oeuvre had spanned 17 features by this point, to say nothing of his television documentaries, but Warm Water is perhaps best appreciated as its own wild animal, divorced from the lurid underworld dramas on which … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2023
Northwood’s Café Centro becomes a haven for live jazz
Jazz is dead: Take it from a popular touring jam band launched in 1998, or a popular recording label founded in 2017. It's the name of both. The same doomsday outlook has recently been assumed — with some validity depending on the geographic market and especially locally — regarding the chances of finding either affordable or quality live music in general. And especially … [Read more...]