Kogonada

Reframes the school lunch debate through an examination of the program's surprising past, uncertain present, and possible future. Six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago set out to fix school lunch and end up at the White House. Their unlikely ...  (more)

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

Filmmaker Kogonada unpicks what defines the Golden Age of Italian cinema with a side-by-side comparison of two edits of the same film, one according to Italian director Vittorio De Sica, and the other according to Hollywood producer David O. Selznick.  (more)

When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, a ...  (more)

A visual essay that highlights top-down shots from Wes Anderson's filmography.  (more)

Tarantino // From Below Music: Kaifuku Suru Kizu by Salyu  (more)

Kogonada's visual essay about the formalistice choices of master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick  (more)

People constantly appear walking through passageways in the films of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu (1903-63). His art resides in the in-between spaces of modern life, in the transitory: alleys are no longer dark and threatening traps where suspense is born, but ...  (more)

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The cinema of Koreeda Hirokazu is defined by moments of everyday life. Whatever potential there is for heightened drama – the suicide of a husband, a cult massacre, abandoned children – it is diffused by the familiar rhythms of everydayness. This attention to the ...  (more)

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 between early Malick (Badlands & Days of Heaven) and later Malick (The Thin Red Line, The New World, The Tree of Life & To ...  (more)

If cinema is the art of time, Linklater is one of its most thoughtful and engaged directors. Unlike other filmmakers identified as auteurs, Linklater’s distinction is not found on the surface of his films, in a visual style or signature shot, but rather in their ...  (more)

As is made abundantly clear by this highly entertaining supercut of Wes Anderson’s films, the creator of such modern classics as The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore and The Grand Budapest Hotel is a BIG fan of symmetry.  (more)

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 of a victim, a murderer, a witness). This momentary suspension between death and life is partly what makes ...  (more)

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

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

Kogonada's video essay made in conjunction with the release of Criterion Designs, a 300-page book, which features highlights from cover art commissioned by the Criterion Collection, including never-before-seen sketches and concept art.  (more)

A video essay on how Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris transcends science fiction.  (more)

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

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