Out of Asia: The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiraostami, and Zhang Yimou; Essays and Interviews
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Well, here it is, the first of sure-to-be-many end of the year/decade lists on the blog. As most of the DVD releases for 2009 have already been announced, I figured it safe to cross the Region 1, US DVD premieres off the list early. All of the DVDs below are for films that were previously unavailable on DVD in the States (though it's possible one or two might have had an unofficial bootleg circulating)....
Metroblogging Seattle (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Japanese film director Kenji Mizoguchi was admired by the likes of Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard and Akira Kurosawa for his work. He began his career with remakes of German Expressionistic films and adaptations of O’Neill and Tolstoy. Later he moved towards realism, spending much time documenting Japan’s change from feudalism into modernism [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Media Asia at 15: Over the years, Media Asia has backed the best -- The roots of Media Asia, a Chinese powerhouse in the Asian market, are in many ways to be found in the classic Akira Kurosawa pic "The Seven Samurai."
Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Seven Samurai 20XX PS2 combined the efforts of Akira Kurosawa's estate, artist Moebius and author Marc Handler. It should have been at least good. Instead, it is surprisingly boring.
Gear Diary (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Recently I was preparing to take a business trip over a weekend for a conference, and figured it would be a nice opportunity to watch a couple of DVD’s that the rest of the family didn’t have any interest in seeing yet again – Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Ran’ and The Marx Brothers’ ‘Night at the Opera’. [...] Related posts: FileMaker Pro version 10 upgrade...
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Check out some movie reviews below. In this paragraph I will give you some search terms to reach movie down load sites. You should have good luck with a search like "Illegal Movie Downloads"; if not then try "Film Online" and "Online Video Rental".
The Viewspaper (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
“Man is a genius when he is dreaming”- this is precisely the seed of inspiration and indomitable spirit behind Akira Kurosawa’s successful career as a film maker that spanned 50 years. The 30 films... Visit The Viewspaper to read the full article.
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
If you've been here for some time you might recall that the Film Experience was once one of the main pushers of the phenom known as the blog-a-thon where multiple sites posted on a specific topic simultaneously. I hosted three of the largest blog-a-thons the web had ever seen at the time ( Michelle Pfeiffer 2006, Vampires in Cinema 2006 and Action Heroines 2007) before collapsing from exhaustion /...
Talking Pictures (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
In the life span of Akira Kurosawa’s influential 1950 film, now back in circulation by way of a spectacularly crisp digital restoration print, we’re at the point where people use the title to denote multiple perspectives on a single event—without...
boiteaoutils (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Charisma is a movie directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (not to be confused with Akira Kurosawa) introducing a muting intriguing tree (see second image) which create all kind of passion of love and hate as much as it contaminates the whole forest all around by its toxin. This tree has been transplanted from an alien land and provoke the disease of its environment. The movie maintains bizarre and use some...
30-something (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
For the primal beast that lies inside each and every one of us. "Inspired by William Golding's Lord of the Flies, as well as by Akira Kurosawa's samurai films and the comic book epic-ness of things like Conan, Beastmaster, etc. Mostly, inspiration came from the Japanese taiko drumming group Kodo ."
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Why should I waste my purity on a "meaningful" college boyfriend or a saggy sugar daddy when I can receive a pot of gold all in one go?
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
The Supreme Court rejected appeals Thursday by companies producing cheap DVDs of classic films in two cases and banned the sale of 21 DVD movies of Charlie Chaplin and Akira Kurosawa to protect their copyrights. At issue were nine Chaplin movies, including "Modern Times" and "The Great Dictator," and 12 Kurosawa films, including "Rashomon" and "Ikiru" ("To...
Businessofcinema.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Shemaroo Entertainment will be screening nine films at the Global Cinema Festival (GCFEST), of which eight are Shemaroo World Cinema titles and one is an Animation film.GCFEST is a weeklong feast of films organised by Film Federation of India in collaboration with the Government of Madhya Pradesh.Global Cinema Festival is organized at Indore from 9 October ...
toddcarruth.com (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
So this is one of those movies that when it first came out, I was all “hey, that looks pretty good. I want to see that.” I mean come on. Check out the cast: Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker, Mathew Fox, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt. Or as I know them: That guy from The Rookie, Jefferson from [...]
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