The 66th Venice International Film Festival, which will be held from 2 September to 12 September 2009, is going to pay tribute to Akira Kurosawa with a special panel discussion. More...
My second copy of D.P. Martinez’s new Kurosawa book Remaking Kurosawa: Translations and Permutations in Global Cinema arrived today, this time from Amazon.co.uk, where I originally placed my pre-order back More...
Kurosawa – Webster’s Timeline History 1910-2007 is a book published in 2008 as part of a “Webster’s Timeline History” series, which includes several dozen other books on various subjects. Very More...
When it comes to physical dimensions, D.P. Martinez’s new Kurosawa book Remaking Kurosawa: Translations and Permutations in Global Cinema is about the size of the Donald Richie edited Rashomon. This More...
I haven’t posted links to other people’s Kurosawa related blog posts for a long time, but this one was just too good to pass. I mean, how else to approach Rashomon than with… detailed flowcharts? I especially like the Final Theory which, obviously, explains everything.
I’m not sure if I understand what is going on here, but Variety reports that Toho has won its lawsuit against Cosmo Coordinate, which tried to sell cheap editions of More...
Its August 18th release date may still be a couple of weeks into the future, but the first reviews of Criterion’s new Blu-ray Kagemusha release have begun to appear. The More...
Word has come my way that The 8th Samurai (see earlier coverage here and here) has won the BEST of FEST award at the LA Shorts Fest. This is significant, More...
Welcome to the AK Online Film Club edition #16. There are at least two things to get excited about this month. One, of course, is the film itself, The Bad More...
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