Stagebuddy Film Picks for the Week of May 19

Our editors' Film picks include a retrospective of Kenji Mizoguchi's work at the Museum of the Moving Image and "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" at MoMA.

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Mizoguchi is the world's greatest director: Sansho the Bailiff my own favourite by him, and Ugetsu Monogatari, The Life of Oharu and Story of the Late Chrysanthemums are probably his other most admired films. 47 Ronin has been filmed several times; Mizoguchi's version may be too long and slow for many tastes- it's not an action film