Kogonada Movies

Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a...

People constantly appear walking through passageways in the films of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu (1903-63). His art resides in the...

When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small...

When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the...

Filmmaker ::kogonada explores director Ingmar Bergman’s “Cries and Whispers," a film in three movements.

As is made abundantly clear by this highly entertaining supercut of Wes Anderson’s films, the creator of such modern classics as The Royal...

40,000 years in the making: Kogonada's video essay created for The Connected Series.

A visual essay for "La dolce vita," directed by Kogonada for the Criterion Collection.

Sound in film is often complimentary. Rarely does it suggest an aesthetic of its own. The punctuating, rhythmic soundscapes of Aronofsky are the...

When characters stare at the camera in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the look is almost always associated with the threat of death (through the eyes...

Tarantino // From Below Music: Kaifuku Suru Kizu by Salyu

"I wanted to write a fantasy with the atomic bomb as the theme." – Nobuhiko Obayashi

Reframes the school lunch debate through an examination of the program's surprising past, uncertain present, and possible future. Six kids from one...

Filmmaker Kogonada reflects on women and mirrors in the films of Ingmar Bergman.

In Hong Kong, a young woman haunted by visions of her future self meets a stranger who changes the course of her night -- and possibly her life.

This new video essay by filmmaker Kogonada explores the many layers of director Francois Truffaut's masterpiece "Day for Night."

A visual essay on the tactile world of Robert Bresson created for the Criterion Collection.

Of all the recurring signatures of Malick, his use of fire and water might be the most telling, in part because there’s a significant shift...

Kogonada’s video essay showcases the similarities of the multiple films Yasujiro Ozu made in his lifetime. Ozu created a genre of his own...

Founded by Richard Linklater in 1985 as a screening series dedicated to bringing experimental and art cinema to the city of Austin, Texas, the Austin...