Year of the Month: Persia on Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa taught me about texture. I’d watched plenty of black-and-white movies before and…
“The Farmers Have Won, We Have Lost”: A Review Of Seven Samurai
It’s a testament to the quality of the 1954 motion picture Seven Samurai that its…
SEVEN SAMURAI in Seven Characters
Seven Reasons Why Seven Samurai Is Amazing Kambei: Action is a means to an end.…
The Magnificent Seven Is The First Modern-Day MGM Remake That’s Actually Good
MGM, in their post-bankruptcy state, has been going through their library of titles and remaking…
THE SAMURAI TRILOGY: How To Develop A Character Over Multiple Movies
What makes a good trilogy? A continuous story? Escalating quality? Lightsabers? All of those things? …
Year of the Month: The Swamp Never Drains in Drunken Angel by Eric Vilas-Boas
So many of Akira Kurosawa’s films are morality plays — Rashomon about the limits of…
Dissolve On (9/24/2017-9/30/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
It’s So Hard to Be Old: Ben Hammel (bhammer100) on Akira Kurosawa’s Ran (Year of the Month)
Many critics consider Ran Akira Kurosawa’s final masterpiece. In 1985, after ten long years ruminating…
Year of the Month – Throne of Blood by Ben Hammel (Bhammer100)
“Human beings are so strange. Terrified to look into the bottom of their own hearts.”…
The Railway’s There Yet: THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (Year of the Month)
“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who…