Maroon Audio Journal / Film
Film worlds, visual storytelling and sound. Find a film worth returning to, then look and listen a little closer.
Oct 16, 2026
Maroon Audio Journal · Film · 16 October 2026 Janus Films restoration poster, not the original 1994 release poster. 1994 · Hong Kong · 102 minutes (Janus restoration)Written and directed by Wong Kar-waiCast: Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai,…
Oct 15, 2026
Albert Lamorisse gives a balloon the freedom to become a friend. A closer look at family, colour, sound and the Paris streets that make his 1956 film feel alive.
Oct 15, 2026
How Carol Reed, Robert Krasker and Anton Karas turned postwar Vienna into an unforgettable meeting of unstable images and deceptively buoyant music.
Oct 14, 2026
A spoon scrapes wood. The work must continue, but every repetition might betray the worker. In Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped, listening is never an optional accompaniment to looking. It is how a prisoner measures the danger he cannot see,…
Oct 14, 2026
A job is waiting for Antonio Ricci, provided he can supply a bicycle. That small condition sets the scale of Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 drama about a father and son searching postwar Rome after the bicycle is stolen.…
Oct 13, 2026
How Miloš Forman, Peter Shaffer and Neville Marriner turned Mozart’s music into the living force of a film about admiration, envy and the difficulty of listening.
Oct 11, 2026
Wong Kar-wai’s 2000 romance turns shared rooms, repeated errands and a borrowed waltz into a precise study of intimacy and restraint.
Oct 10, 2026
Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, Paterson (2016) stars Adam Driver as a bus driver who writes poems and Golshifteh Farahani as Laura, his inventive wife. They live in Paterson, New Jersey, the American city that shares the husband’s name.…
Oct 9, 2026
Asghar Farhadi’s family drama grows from the intimate work of caring for a father into a struggle over whose needs, words and responsibilities count.
Oct 9, 2026
How a project about Tokyo’s public toilets became a film about skilled work, private history and the small variations that keep a day alive.