Few filmmakers have inspired more international remakes than Akira Kurosawa, whose samurai films formed the direct basis for many westerns (likeA Fistful of Dollars, which came from Kurosawa’sYojimbo) and sci-fi films (likeBattle From Beyond the Stars, which came fromSeven Samurai). Decades afte...
There’s no question that the best way to learn about filmmaking is to shoot, edit and make a lot of useful mistakes. The second best way is to watch movies, especially with commentaries so we can learn about the challenges other people have and how they solved them. And the third appro...
if it had been any good. Instead, this remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s filmKairoputs every horror cliche on the table while sucking the air out of all of its scary scenes. Kristen Bell and Ian Somerhalder star as college students who find out Bell’s character’s boyfriend...
”many of which have been angrily addressedby Peter Knegt on this website — would at first sight seem very welcome at a festival where, only last year, the likes of Walter Hill’s “Bullet to the Head.” Roman Coppola’s “A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III” and Larry...
In this prompt section where you create your image, you need to be specific and describe your dog including breed, fur color, etc. After that make sure to say you want your pooch to look like a Disney Pixar-style movie poster and you can even say what you want the background of the...
For lovers of cinema, the creative symbiosis the two artists have found in one another is not dissimilar, at this stage, to some of the other great actor-director collaborations of film history: Scorsese-De Niro (or Scorsese-DiCaprio), Kurosawa-Mifune, Herzog-Kinski, or e...
And we watched so many movies but their favorite film and these are kids that just turned 16 was if and then the whole Mick Travis trilogy, going back and revisiting those was really profound, truly radical beautiful movies. I just admire him so much and we were lucky to have hung out ...
There were so many Bruce Lee and Jet Li movies we had flowing throughout the process, which was fun too for the heavier songs—parts where there’s an insane fight scene and we’re getting amped up. It was cool the amount of times that whatever we were working on would so perfectly ...
The film seems like a healthy mix of Akira Kurosawa and George Lucas. Snyder is taking the ideas of theSeven SamuraiandStar Warsand crushing them together into one big pulp. It certainly looks interesting, but he is doing a few things that seem suspect. ...
Another Shakespeare adaptation for the ages, Akira Kurosawa’s “Throne of Blood” retells the story of Macbeth by transposing the action to 16th-century Japan and using the traditional Japanese theatrical form known as Noh. The stylistical twist gives the movie a formal, minimalist direction, wi...