Today, our new 4K restoration of Juzo Itami’s 1985 “ramen western” TAMPOPO opens at New York’s Film Forum in the film’s first U.S. theatrical run in decades. The erotic allure of food fuels this tale of a truck driver and his band of friends, who come to the aid of a noodle shop owner’s widow as she tries to establish herself as a first-class ramen chef. To celebrate the film’s re-release, we’ve compiled a selection of articles and videos that give you a taste of this outrageous culinary comedy.
Mikio Naruse (August 20, 1905 - July 2, 1969)
here Setsuko Hara, Mikio Naruse & So Yamamura on the set of The Sound of the Mountain -Yama no Oto-(1954)
Ava DuVernay is the first Black woman to direct a Hollywood movie with a budget of over $100 million. She’s directing the upcoming adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time (amazing), which is slated to include a performance by Oprah and come out some time in 2017. Once again, DuVernay is pushing Hollywood forward—how sad is it that no Black woman has had this opportunity before? This is another example where the lack of diversity in Hollywood comes into sharp focus—it’s worth remembering that at the biggest film studios in Hollywood, almost every single top executive is a white man.
Shirley Clarke shoots The Cool World (1963).