Daily Briefing. Kuroswawa @ This Must Be the Place
David HudsonAlso: The other Kurosawa, a forgotten “masterpiece” and the long, rather sad decline of Variety.
Akira Kurosawa
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Tokyo International Film Festival 2011
David HudsonThe festival features a retrospective of work by actress Kyoko Kagawa, now 79.
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Movie Posters of the Week: 5 Japanese Divas
Adrian CurryStarting today, and for most of April, Film Forum in New York will be honoring five of Japan’s greatest actresses in a portmanteau retrospective entitled 5 Japanese Divas. The divas in question are Setsuko
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Five Japanese Divas
David HudsonNick Pinkerton in the Voice on Five Japanese Divas, running from tomorrow through April 21: "Rarefied Ozu, bold Kurosawa, saturnine Naruse, magisterial Mizoguchi. The Great Men are here, and then some
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"Topsy-Turvy," World Picture 5, More
David Hudson"Topsy-Turvy is both an anomaly among the films of Mike Leigh and, contrary as it may seem, a Rosetta stone." Writing for Criterion, Amy Taubin explains how it can be both and adds a third vital aspect
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Film Foundation, Offscreen, Lists, More
David HudsonNew York's Film Society of Lincoln Center is celebrating 20 Years of Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation — which, it should probably be noted, is not to be confused with his World Cinema
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Music of the day. Takemitsu Toru x Gustav Mahler: "End Credits" from Kurosawa's "Ran"
Daniel KasmanTakemitsu Toru's "End Credits" from his soundtrack to Akira Kurosawa's Ran (1985): Gustav Mahler's "Der Abschied" (The Farewell) from Das Lied von der Erde [The Song of the Earth] (1908
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DVDs. Early Kurosawa, "Piranha" and More
David Hudson"To watch Sanshiro Sugata, one of the most accomplished directorial debuts in film history, is to marvel at the emergence of a film artist whose aesthetic sensibility is fully formed from the first
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Cinema Scope, Robin Wood, 70s Sci-Fi
David HudsonJean Luc-Godard's "late period has repeatedly demonstrated an interest in a critical cinema, an art that interrogates itself by giving form to its history as much as providing a history to its art form
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Reverse Shot, Sight & Sound, "Mystery Train" and More DVDs
David HudsonReverse Shot editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert introduce "the third installment of our unofficial symposium series that began with Take One (in which we asked writers to isolate and write
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Godard and Karina, Assayas and Denis, More Festivals, More DVDs
David HudsonCity of Lights, City of Angels, Los Angeles' festival of new French films, is on through the weekend and Anna Karina will be there on Friday for a screening of a new, digitally restored edition
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Bright Lights, Film Forum, "Ajami," SF Indiefest
David HudsonJust a very quick Daily roundup from within the Rotterdam maelstrom. First and foremost, a new issue of Bright Lights Film Journal is up - but hold on, as editor Gary Morris explains, there's more