This Must Be the Place, one of the finest tumblrs out there for cinephiles (and let me hasten to add that there are more than a few!), has just wrapped an intense week-long special focus on Akira Kurosawa. Take a look at these paintings set next to their realizations on screen. In fact, just start by clicking on the Akira Kurosawa tag and take a leisurely weekend stroll through stills, animated gifs, quotations, posters and more.
Reading. At Movie Morlocks, David Kalat argues that another Kurosawa, Kiyoshi, is responsible to a considerable degree for a revival of interest in Japanese cinema in the West in the late 90s; the turning point, he argues, is Cure (1997).
René Clément's Gervaise (1956), an adaptation of Émile Zola's 1877 novel L'Assommoir, "is a masterpiece," argues Mark Le Fanu in Sight & Sound, "as good an example as one can get of the 'tradition of quality'...
Reading. At Movie Morlocks, David Kalat argues that another Kurosawa, Kiyoshi, is responsible to a considerable degree for a revival of interest in Japanese cinema in the West in the late 90s; the turning point, he argues, is Cure (1997).
René Clément's Gervaise (1956), an adaptation of Émile Zola's 1877 novel L'Assommoir, "is a masterpiece," argues Mark Le Fanu in Sight & Sound, "as good an example as one can get of the 'tradition of quality'...
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