Akira Kurosawa

‘Star Trek’: Watch every episode to celebrate William Shatner’s birth

2013-03-22 13:22:25

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Donald Richie dies at 88; interpreted Japan for the West

2013-02-23 22:30:00

Donald Richie, an American expatriate in Japan who became that country's preeminent Western interpreter, explaining its culture — from cinema to Zen to tattoos — in books and essays that illuminated the author's psyche as much as that of his...

Gems from the '50s: Kenneth Turan's DVD picks of the week

2013-03-14 12:23:00

As far as decades go, the 1950s are sometimes characterized as a boring time when nothing of significance really happened. But you wouldn’t know it by these two exemplary films with new DVD releases to boast about. Made in 1950, Akira Kurosawa&...

A world of difference in reactions over foreign, U.S. film violence

2013-02-15 13:05:00

Genre filmmaking helps make sense of the world, creating codes by which the seemingly irrational ways of human behavior can be understood. With storytelling modes that travel from country to country — the crime picture, the horror film, the action...

‘Star Wars’ director watch: Zack Snyder’s out, who’s in?

2013-01-15 13:52:10

Man About Town: A few heroic leaps at an 'Avengers' matinee

2012-05-12 00:00:00

"The Avengers," as you may have heard, is the biggest thing to happen to America since World War II but, you know, louder and more troubling. At the end of the matinee I witnessed, audience members actually cheered, believing what they'd just seen was...

Around Town: Return to 'Brokeback Mountain'

2012-06-07 16:39:35

Around Town: The Beatles' 'Yellow Submarine' gets a makeover

2012-05-10 16:37:58

Happy birthday, Gabriel Garcia Marquez!

2012-03-06 16:35:54

Opera review: 'Lady Macbeth' at Fais Do-Do

2010-08-27 16:32:58

From the Vaults -- 'Vamonos Con Pancho Villa!'

2011-03-25 04:33:09

Music review: Takemitsu film score tribute in jazz at Samueli Theater

2010-12-20 16:32:46

. In the West it's derided as a soap opera. But this 19th century story of a grizzled doctor nicknamed Red Beard (Mifune) and the green physician (Yuzo Kayama) who learns humane medical values from him at a clinic for the poor is actually, in many ways, Kurosawa's magnum opus.

2010-05-19 13:46:31

business remains in a slump, which is bad news for archival releases: Distributors are, for now, more likely to recycle old standbys than dig into the studio vaults for obscurities.

2009-12-17 13:36:37

'The Magnificent Seven' (1960) Plot: Seven hired gunmen, led by Yul Brenner and Steve McQueen , protect a small Mexican village from raiding bandits. Remake of: Akira Kurosawa 's 1954 film "Seven Samurai," which shared the plot and many lines of dialogue with the Hollywood remake. Credit? While

2008-09-09 12:43:18