4 March, 2010 (12 comments)
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...
1 March, 2010 (4 comments)
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...
27 February, 2010
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...
27 February, 2010 (1 comment)
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...
8 February, 2010 (3 comments)
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...
1 January, 2010
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...
5 December, 2009 (26 comments)
Criterion’s mammoth AK100: 25 Films of Akira Kurosawa box set will hit retail shelves on Tuesday (8th of December 2009). But, who should buy it? Despite the title, this is More...
2 December, 2009
First of all, apologies for the recent silence from my part, but life (read: “work”) has been hectic. Last month, I constantly kept hoping that I would find the time More...
30 November, 2009 (1 comment)
Lionsgate has announced the upcoming release of Ran on Region A Blu-ray, scheduled for February 16th 2010. The film is among the first three works put out as part of More...
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