Ran Articles
Akira Kurosawa’s RAN, Alexander Mackendrick’s THE LADYKILLERS, Jean-Luc Godard’s CONTEMPT Blu-ray Contest
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 [...]
Akira Kurosawa’s RAN, DERSU UZALA, KAGEMUSHA on TCM
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 [...]