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1 May, 2013 (6 comments)
This May, our Film Club title of the month is Akira Kurosawa’s 1960 film The Bad Sleep Well (悪い奴ほどよく眠る, Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru, “The Worse They Are, The Better More...
24 October, 2011
Two new region 2 DVD box sets from the British Film Institute are released today. The sets are called Kurosawa: Classics Collection and Kurosawa: Crime Collection and contain five and More...
3 August, 2009
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...
As Master Thief pointed out a few days ago in the comments to Amazon’s new Kurosawa offerings, the Australian Madman Entertainment’s Eastern Eye series put out a host of new More...
Ben Nuckols at “The Ill-Informed Gadfly” has responded textually to Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well. For the blog article, see here.
Reading Wabisabi’s latest Kurosawa related entries at her blog Beniguma, I just realised that I didn’t link to his earlier post on The Bad Sleep Well. I should have, as More...
There is an interesting little article at The Indigestible on Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well. It makes a curious suggestion that the film could be seen as “a bizarre More...
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