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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Akira Kurosawa</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/akira-kurosawa/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards: Odd Men Out Roman Polanski, Kenneth Branagh, David Lynch</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dga-awards-academy-awards-1980s-roman-polanski-kenneth-branagh/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dga-awards-academy-awards-1980s-roman-polanski-kenneth-branagh/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:35:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25978</guid> <description><![CDATA[Bob Hoskins, Jessica Rabbit in Robert Zemeckis' DGA- (but not Oscar-) nominated Who Framed Roger Rabbit (top); Willem Dafoe in Martin Scorsese's Oscar- (but not DGA-) nominated The Last Temptation of Christ (bottom) DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1970s: Odd Men Out Bob Fosse, Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman 1980 DGA Michael Apted, Coal Miner's Daughter AMPAS Roman Polanski, Tess DGA/AMPAS Robert Redford, Ordinary People David [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dga-awards-academy-awards-1980s-roman-polanski-kenneth-branagh/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Los Angeles Film Critics Career Achievement Award Winners</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/los-angeles-film-critics-career-achievement-award-winners/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/los-angeles-film-critics-career-achievement-award-winners/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:47:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35604</guid> <description><![CDATA[Los Angeles Film Critics' Macho Career Achievement Award Choices. [Photo: Rouben Mamoulian.] 1976: Allan Dwan 1977: King Vidor 1978: Orson Welles 1979: John Huston 1980: Robert Mitchum 1981: Barbara Stanwyck 1982: Robert Preston 1983: Myrna Loy 1984: Rouben Mamoulian 1985: Akira Kurosawa 1986: John Cassavetes 1987: Joel McCrea and Samuel Fuller 1988: Don Siegel 1989: Stanley Donen 1990: Chuck Jones and Blake Edwards 1991: Elmer [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/los-angeles-film-critics-career-achievement-award-winners/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>RAN Review Pt.3 &#8211; Essentially Cinematic Work of Art</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/oscar-movies/akira-kurosawa-ran-review-338/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/oscar-movies/akira-kurosawa-ran-review-338/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:30:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21182</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Ryu in Akira Kurosawa's Ran RAN Review: Part II In Ran, Asakazu Nakai, Takao Saito, and Masaharu Ueda's cinematography shows that there's much more to great cinematography than just good scenery. One needs only look at films like Sean Penn’s Into the Wild or Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries to see that beautiful mountainscapes do not equal great art. Ran's cinematographers, by [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/oscar-movies/akira-kurosawa-ran-review-338/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>RAN Review Pt.2 &#8211; Not a Retelling of Shakespeare&#039;s KING LEAR</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/ran-review-990/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/ran-review-990/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:29:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21181</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mieko Harada in Akira Kurosawa's Ran RAN Review: Part I Also, like Lear, all in the clan end up dead. But there are some major differences, aside from the depth and realism found in Kurosawa’s film. Lear’s past is an unknown. When we observe his suffering, we are apt to feel pity for him as a character &#8212; even in poorly wrought scenes. Hidetora, on [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/ran-review-990/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>RAN Review d: Akira Kurosawa</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/ran-akira-kurosawa-112/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/ran-akira-kurosawa-112/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:28:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21179</guid> <description><![CDATA[RAN (1985) Direction: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Hisashi Igawa Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, Masato Ide, and Hideo Oguni Oscar Movies Akira Kurosawa's Ran By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: &#34;Critical cribbing&#34; is a term I coined in regard to the tendency of critics, in all fields, to not engage a work of art directly, but rather [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/ran-akira-kurosawa-112/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SEVEN SAMURAI Review Pt.3 &#8211; Granddaddy of All Great Action Films</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/seven-samurai-review/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/seven-samurai-review/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 07:49:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26622</guid> <description><![CDATA[Toshiro Mifune in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai SEVEN SAMURAI Review Part 2 Almost as good an acting job as Shimura's is that of Isao Kimura as Katsushiro. Watch the scene where he confronts the great swordsman Kyuzo &#8212; in yet another bravura performance that shows less is more &#8212; after Kyuzo has single-handedly killed two bandits and returned with a needed gun. Katsushiro says little, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/seven-samurai-review/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SEVEN SAMURAI Review Pt.2 &#8211; Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/seven-samurai-toshiro-mifune-takashi-shimura/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/seven-samurai-toshiro-mifune-takashi-shimura/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 07:48:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26623</guid> <description><![CDATA[Toshiro Mifune in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai SEVEN SAMURAI Review Part 1 Although Seven Samurai has often been called an epic, it's really not. Almost all of the action takes place indoors or in small settings. There are many characters and extras, but there are only forty bandits, and maybe twice as many villagers. This is personalized, small-scale warfare. The only epopee the film indulges [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/seven-samurai-toshiro-mifune-takashi-shimura/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SEVEN SAMURAI Review d: Akira Kurosawa</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/seven-samurai-akira-kurosawa/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/seven-samurai-akira-kurosawa/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 07:47:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/08/17/dvd-review-akira-kurosawas-seven-samurai/</guid> <description><![CDATA[SHICHININ NO SAMURAI / SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) Direction: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Isao Kimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Yoshio Tsuchiya Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni Oscar Movies Toshiro Mifune, Seven Samurai By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica Some films get better after repeated viewings. Akira Kurosawa's 1954 black-and-white drama Shichinin no samurai / Seven Samurai is one of them. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/seven-samurai-akira-kurosawa/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Steven Spielberg &#8211; THE COLOR PURPLE: Biggest Oscar Snubs #2</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/steven-spielberg-the-color-purple-oscar-snubs-44881/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/steven-spielberg-the-color-purple-oscar-snubs-44881/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:45:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22403</guid> <description><![CDATA[Whoopi Goldberg, The Color Purple Bill Condon's DREAMGIRLS: Biggest Oscar Snubs #3c Steven Spielberg's Best Direction Oscar nomination for his 1985 film version of Alice Walker's The Color Purple was a given. In fact, some felt the director of the blockbusters Jaws, Close Encounters of Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom would have a good [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/steven-spielberg-the-color-purple-oscar-snubs-44881/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>HEARTS AND MINDS, Mary Pickford, Scandalous Virgins, Akira Kurosawa, Twisted Gay Love on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/hearts-and-minds-scandalous-virgins-twisted-gay-love/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/hearts-and-minds-scandalous-virgins-twisted-gay-love/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:05:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25544</guid> <description><![CDATA[Maggie McNamara, William Holden in Otto Preminger's scandalous The Moon Is Blue Turner Classic Movies has a lot to offer tonight and tomorrow morning. There's a lot to say about the scheduled movies, but since time is short &#8212; the first one listed below has already started, I'll be brief. First of all, don't miss Sidney Franklin's The Hoodlum, a 1919 comedy-drama that feels more [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/hearts-and-minds-scandalous-virgins-twisted-gay-love/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>DRUNKEN ANGEL Review Part II &#8211; Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/drunken-angel-review-toshiro-mifune-takashi-shimura/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/drunken-angel-review-toshiro-mifune-takashi-shimura/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:00:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25532</guid> <description><![CDATA[Toshiro Mifune, Reisaburo Yamamoto in Akira Kurosawa's Drunken Angel Akira Kurosawa's DRUNKEN ANGEL Review Part I As for the DVD package? Unfortunately this is one of the very lesser releases by The Criterion Collection. First, the video transfer, in a 1.37:1 aspect ratio, is from a really poor source &#8211; Drunken Angel looks like a mediocre ten-year-old VHS tape, laden with lines, scratches, ghosts, blobs, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/drunken-angel-review-toshiro-mifune-takashi-shimura/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>DRUNKEN ANGEL d: Akira Kurosawa</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/drunken-angel-akira-kurosawa/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/drunken-angel-akira-kurosawa/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:00:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25531</guid> <description><![CDATA[Yoidore tenshi / Drunken Angel (1948) Direction: Akira Kurosawa Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, Keinosuke Uekusa Cast: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Reisaburo Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: Watching Akira Kurosawa’s 1948 black-and-white effort Yoidore Tenshi / Drunken Angel is an interesting experience, for he clearly had not mastered the art form, yet. Even so, there is so much that is good in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/drunken-angel-akira-kurosawa/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Akira Kurosawa&#039;s RAN, Alexander Mackendrick&#039;s THE LADYKILLERS, Jean-Luc Godard&#039;s CONTEMPT Blu-ray Contest</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/akira-kurosawas-ran-alexander-mackendricks-the-ladykillers-jean-luc-godards-contempt-blu-ray-contest/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/akira-kurosawas-ran-alexander-mackendricks-the-ladykillers-jean-luc-godards-contempt-blu-ray-contest/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 07:01:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24167</guid> <description><![CDATA[FilmBookdotcom has a Blu-ray contest out there: Alexander Mackendrick's black comedy The Ladykillers, Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mepris / Contempt, and Akira Kurosawa's Ran have been released by StudioCanal on Blu-ray and are up for grabs. The Ladykillers, remade a few years ago with Tom Hanks, stars Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, and the outstanding Katie Johnson. Godard's Contempt is a visually sumptuous drama starring Brigitte Bardot [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/akira-kurosawas-ran-alexander-mackendricks-the-ladykillers-jean-luc-godards-contempt-blu-ray-contest/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Akira Kurosawa&#039;s RAN, DERSU UZALA, KAGEMUSHA on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/akira-kurosawa-ran-dersu-uzala-kagemusha/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/akira-kurosawa-ran-dersu-uzala-kagemusha/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:53:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23830</guid> <description><![CDATA[Maksim Munzuk Dersu Uzala Three Academy Award-nominated/-winning films by Akira Kurosawa will be shown tonight on Turner Classic Movies: Dersu Uzala (1975), Kagemusha (1980), and Ran (1985). Winner of the 1975 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, the poetic Dersu Uzala chronicles the difficulties encountered by a Siberian hunter (Maksim Munzuk) who's brought to civilization by a Russian explorer whose life the hunter had saved. Based [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/akira-kurosawa-ran-dersu-uzala-kagemusha/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Akira Kurosawa: SEVEN SAMURAI, RASHOMON on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/akira-kurosawa-seven-samuria-rashomon-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/akira-kurosawa-seven-samuria-rashomon-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:05:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23599</guid> <description><![CDATA[Toshiro Mifune (second from right) in Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa would have turned 100 today. In celebration of his centenary, Turner Classic Movies is showing 26 of the director's films throughout the month of March. Today's Kurosawa series began early &#8212; at 3 a.m. Pacific Time &#8212; with a presentation of Sanshiro Sugata, the director's earliest effort. Several little-known and little-seen early Kurosawas later (I [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/akira-kurosawa-seven-samuria-rashomon-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Akira Kurosawa TCM Tribute</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/akira-kurosawa-tcm-tribute-712/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/akira-kurosawa-tcm-tribute-712/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:03:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18426</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless As per The Hollywood Reporter, the Berlin International Film Festival will mark its 60th anniversary with the retrospective &#34;Play it Again &#8230;!,&#34; featuring 40 films compiled by British film critic David Thomson from previous Berlin festivals. Among them are Curzio Malaparte's The Forbidden Christ, Alf Sjoberg's Miss Julie, Akira Kurosawa's To Live, Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, Michael Cimino's The Deer [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2010-play-it-again-series/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE BAD SLEEP WELL Review II</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/the-bad-sleep-well-toshiro-mifune/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/the-bad-sleep-well-toshiro-mifune/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:50:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16606</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE BAD SLEEP WELL Review: Part I The saddest thing is that the corruption detailed in The Bad Sleep Well feels so minor league today that it seems almost childish when compared to Enron, Worldcom, and the many others in the years since. In a sense, Iwabuchi isn't even the top criminal in the film. That title would belong to the corporation's little-seen president, Arimura [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/the-bad-sleep-well-toshiro-mifune/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE BAD SLEEP WELL d: Akira Kurosawa</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-bad-sleep-well-akira-kurosawa/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-bad-sleep-well-akira-kurosawa/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:49:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
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