Harakiri

It was a pleasant surprise to catch this wonderful film on IFC this weekend. My only previous screening was for a college English class on film criticism circa 1980. It blew me away then and now. I looked for years but could not find it; I see it was released as part of the Criterion Collection only a year ago. Treat yourself!

It resonates today with themes of institutional hypocrisy, cover-ups and even worship of petrified, meaningless totems. (Apply liberally to your scandal-du-jour!).