Film Forum's mini-reprieve of their exhaustive June trib to Yasujiro Ozu seems to come to an end with today's screening of the auteur's LATE AUTUMN. Once more the Japanese tradition of arranged marriage and its disfavor and decline in modern postwar Japan serves as Ozu's topic, and once more the master delivers both a narrative and style unorthodox but brilliant.

L'AVVENTURA, Michelangelo Antonioni's breakthrough work of world cinema, sees its two week booking at the Film Forum extended by five days, now running through Tuesday the 30th. Having chosen it the first opportunity I got I can pass it up as my Pick today with a clean conscience. Plus even Monica Vitti would acquiesce to the lady I've chosen to so honor this day. It's the Broad Code, I tells yaz.

In memoriam.

You think Yasujiro Ozu's gone away? Yasujiro Ozu never goes away my friend. Never. Today Film Forum's reprisal of last month's trib to the Japanese auteur offers his Kinema Jumpo champ EARLY SUMMER, which is perhaps my fave title all-time. The Yaz man's recurring theme of traditional arranged marriage rejected by daughters with more modern sensibilities rears its head once more, with the usual brilliant results.

Film Forum's short reprieve of last month's expired, exhaustive trib to Yasujiro Ozu today brings THE FLAVOR OF GREEN TEA OVER RICE. Ozu's familiar theme of arranged marriage and the modern daughters who rail against the antiquated parctice serves as the film's central plot, which is eventually resolved around the titular dinner.

Film Forum's mini-reprise of last month's trib to Yasujiro Ozu today offers the auteur's THE END OF SUMMER, the tale of an aging sake brewer's kicking against the dying of the light.

Williamsburg's Nitehawk Cinema, my new fave theater in NYC, gets the day in classic screenings going with a reminder of why we once loved Tim Burton.

Satyajit Ray's TWO DAUGHTERS screens for the last of its three-day booking as part of MoMA's ongoing Auteurist History of Film series.

Sidney Lumet's debut feature 12 ANGRY MEN screens its last as part of Film Forum's week-long booking of the 50's classic that kickstarted one of filmdom's greatest directorial careers. Chose it instantly last Friday so it misses as my Pick this day. My boss sucks.

Sidney Lumet's feature debut 12 ANGRY MEN, one of the great first filmmaking efforts all-time, screens for at least today and tomorrow as Film Forum's week-long booking winds to a close.