Peter Cowie’s new book Akira Kurosawa: Master of Cinema was published last week to roughly coincide with Kurosawa’s centenary on March 23. Being a coffee table book, it is first More...
Film historian Peter Cowie’s new book Akira Kurosawa: Master of Cinema is as far as I can see now published and on its way to bookshops. Amazon.co.uk lists March 1 More...
On March 23rd it will be a full hundred years since the birth of Akira Kurosawa. To celebrate the occasion, Criterion has dedicated the whole of March an Akira Kurosawa More...
A week or so ago Lionsgate released Kurosawa’s Ran in blu-ray as part of their StudioCanal line, so I thought that it is time to look at the reviews. They More...
You may remember a short news update I posted last year about Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh’s new film The Magnificent Eleven, which is a soccer themed remake of The Magnificent More...
Daily Yomiuri online reports that around 380 million yen, or 4.25 million US dollars worth of Akira Kurosawa Foundation assets are currently unaccounted for. The Foundation, headed by Akira Kurosawa’s More...
Last month’s film club feature Sanjuro (1962) was based on a novel by Shugoro Yamamoto, and this month we continue in the same mode by moving onto Dodesukaden (1970), another More...
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