Jason Morehead

Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-Eda, 2008)

A few weeks ago, I was talking with a friend from church about films and how he’d recently come to appreciate films in which he could just sit back and watch life unfold. That’s probably as succinct a description as any for Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s Still Walking, which follows the events and rhythms of a family […]

Alissa Wilkinson

Family, Death, and Life

On celebrations and empty chairs at the table in three films: Still Walking, Summer Hours, and Rachel Getting Married.