Some forum talk has indicated that Criterion may have lost their rights to Ran. If true, this means that the DVD release is now out of print, and the planned More...
I was dreamin’ when I wrote this / Forgive me if it goes astray. Yesterday, March 23rd 2009, marked 99 years since the birth of Akira Kurosawa. To celebrate, I decided to More...
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has announced its 2010 lineup, which will also be the festival’s 75th season of Shakespeare productions. Among the more typical Shakespeare productions prepared for next year’s More...
So, Criterion’s new Dodesukaden came out earlier this week, and the reviews have been coming in accordingly. Below, you will find a handful of (semi-)professional reviews of the DVD release. More...
According to IMDb, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese have recorded “emotional video messages” for the Cherry Blossom Gala in Los Angeles, which celebrates Kurosawa’s 99th birthday and the opening of the new Akira Kurosawa film school in Anaheim.
I’m a bit behind with this (not the only such thing (but I’ll try to catch up once I get back home later this week)), but it seems that the More...
Remaking Kurosawa: Translations and Permutations in Global Cinema is the title of a forthcoming Akira Kurosawa book written by Dr Dolores Martinez from the University of London School of Oriental More...
The month has changed again it seems, and so the focus of the Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club shifts to the next film on the list. Marked for March is More...
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