Hindu (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
KOCHI: The Kerala Lalithakala Akademi will be presenting Cross Country national art exhibition and will screen select world cinema at the Durbar Hall Art Centre from November 20 to 30. The 10-day exhibition will have some top artists in ...
The Why of the World (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
The saddest song on film comes in Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru ("To Live", 1952). It is the context that makes it so powerful. The hero of the film, a quiet, methodical bureaucrat, has discovered he has stomach cancer. He finds himself in a jazzy nightclub, quite drunk, and sits near the piano and sings an old song about love and death. As he sits with the tears running down his face, the devil-may-care...
Asiajin (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
Jason Calacanis, a big name in Silicon Valley (founder of Weblogs and Mahalo, legendary blogger,VC etc.) visited Japan last week for the first time. We had dinner with him and with other famous Japanese bloggers. Japan’s best-known bloggers attended this dinner meeting, including Dan Kogai (who is also the ex-CTO of Livedoor), Masato Kogure from Netafull, [...]
India eNews (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
Film: 'Dasvidaniya': Cast: Vinay Pathak, Neha Dhupia, Ranvir Shorey, Sarita Joshi and Gaurav Gera ; Director: Shashant Singh; Rating: ***
DennisMansfield.com (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
In a previous posting I connected the GOP Conservative movement (since the election of Reagan) with the film, The Magnificent Seven...and its MANY remakes/sequels. The truth is that the first version was where film greatness lay. Similar to Reagan's policies...and...
Charlotte Observer: Viewpoint (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
By an odd coincidence, election week also happened to be the week my senior English students were watching Ran , Akira Kurosawa's movie about a transition of power. Set in feudal Japan but based on Shakespeare's King Lear , the movie is both epic and intimate, a portrayal of Hidetora Ichimonji, a ruthless warlord, who cedes his authority to the next generation with disastrous results. Like Lear, Hidetora...
Cinebeats (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Ishiro Honda Last week the first English language version of Ishiro Honda’s official website debuted online to very little fanfare, but I highly recommend stopping by the site to see the wonderful collection of materials on display there! Ishiro Honda (1911-1993) is one of Japan’s most important filmmakers and his body of work includes Godzilla (1954), [...]
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
'Ashes of Time Redux' {4stars} Like an Akira Kurosawa film processed through a kaleidoscope, Ashes of Time (1994) was Wong Kar-wai's third film, by which time it was clear that he was going to pass off hallucinations as motion pictures. ''Ashes'' was the Hong Kong director's audacious attempt to re-imagine the martial-arts epic. (R - 93 minutes) V.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Film News: New print to screen Nov. 17 at Academy Theater -- Cinephiles searching for older classics will be able to see Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" in a new, digitally restored print on Nov. 17.
Dexigner Design Portal (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
Revolutionary director/producer, George Lucas has been selected to receive the Art Directors Guild's (ADG's) coveted honorary Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award, it was announced today by Thomas A. Walsh, ADG President, and Awards co-producers John Sabato and John Janavs.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Prestige project of the week is the Martin Scorsese-Mike Nichols-David Mamet update of Akira Kurosawa's High and Low. Mamet's screenplay will be produced by Scorsese and directed by Nichols, Variety reports. The 1963 original starred Kurosawa's usual leading man, Toshiro...
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
As far as remakes go, this isn't terrible.
Chill Out Sistah (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
CNN had opened up a poll via http://cnn.com/screeningroom on the best Asian Movies of All-time! Among the nominees are Ishmael Bernal's "Himala, Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurais", Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and Andrew Lau's "Infernal Affairs". I've seen the mentioned first three films which are good and interesting! I have to watch "Infernal Affairs", it seems that my DVDx man have...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Veteran director Mike Nichols is to remake Akira Kurosawa's classic High And Low.
Brokedown Palace (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Mike Nichols, David Mamet and Martin Scorsese to Remake Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low : Whoa.
