Akira Kurosawa

...works displayed "against a backdrop of video-art installation that will loop archival footage, classic moments from Akira Kurosawa and John Hughes movies, as well as a short film that was shot in Japan the summer of 2009 by...

In this article: Seattle, Philadelphia, Japan, Venom, Parsons School of Design, Chicago, and Michael Jackson

...to quote filmmakers who are great because it sounds like you're comparing yourself to them and I'm not at all, but David Lean and Kurosawa who composed on this grand level, that's the inspiration for this movie. It kind of has been for the...

In this article: New Moon, The Golden Compass, Twilight, Jacob Black, God, and Guillermo del Toro

...(or Chinese) directors can turn out. And it's not that this sort of large-scale action can't be infused with feeling - Akira Kurosawa proved that it can in "Kagemusha" and "Ran" not long before Mr. Woo was making his breakout films.

In this article: John Woo, Red Cliff, Hard Boiled, Zhao Yun, Zhou Yu, Cao Cao, Hollywood, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and Zhang Fengyi

...ways, despite the fact that both sides wear remarkably similar-looking battlegear. Though Woo doesn't go to the lengths of Akira Kurosawa (who used color-coded battle flags to distinguish the sides in "Ran"), you never lose track of where...

In this article: John Woo, Red Cliff, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, Sun Quan, Ran, Zhou Yu, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and Zhang Fengyi

Or how about the European auteurs whose films might not have been seen in the United States without his advocacy: Bergman, Fellini, Kurosawa, Schlondorff, Truffaut, Wenders? Or The Intruder, The Wild Angels and The Trip -- three...

In this article: Roger Corman, The Wild Angels, Gale Anne Hurd, Hollywood, Oscar, Washington, Subordination, The Trip, and Masque of the Red Death

Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's 1950 "Rashomon" has had such a profound cultural influence that there is even a psychosociological phenomenon named after it. Taking its name from the film's exploration of eyewitnesses' widely divergent...

In this article: Rashomon, Masayuki Mori, Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, and Machiko Kyo

...US. His former company, New World Pictures, was a US home for films by Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Francois Truffaut and Akira Kurosawa. THE US envoy to Afghanistan has written memos to Washington expressing deep concern over...

In this article: Oscar, James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Hollywood, US, New World Pictures, and The Masque of the Red Death

Scotiabank Theatre Toronto, 259 Richmond St. W. Info: www.jftor.org Cineforum Lectures & Screenings - Thurs. : Akira Kurosawa Film Festival 7 p.m., Zatoichi Film Festival 9 p.m. ; Sat.: 3D Film Festival 7 p.m. ; Sun.: Kiss Me Kate...

In this article: Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Styrene, McKinsey & Company, Lennox, Viva Zapata!, and Wizard of Oz

...former company, New World Pictures, was a U.S. home for films by Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Francois Truffaut and Akira Kurosawa. Though he has had films at prestigious festivals such as Cannes and Venice, Corman jokes about the...

In this article: Roger Corman, Oscar, B-movie, James Cameron, Jack Nicholson, Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, William Shatner, and Death Race 2000

...their triumph. Life in the village goes on. This is the deceptively simple story told in grand yet subtle fashion by master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in his classic 1954 work The Seven Samurai. I first discovered this film and its director...

In this article: Yojimbo, Seven Samurai, Japan, Nova Southeastern University, Columbia University, and Salo Baron