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...Victorian virus has recently infected two of the top anime-tors: Miyazaki set his latest feature, Howl's Moving Castle, in a fanciful antique England; Otomo retreated to 1860s London for the first anime feature he has directed since Akira. Steamboy, available in two cuts (get the 126-min. director's version), sets a complex spy plot chugging across its sooty landscapes, with villains pursuing the boy hero--in some great chase scenes--to harness a 19th century WMD. Only the lad's ingenuity can defeat them. That's the power of anime: it's a weapon of mass perception...
...AKIRA KATSUHIRO OTOMO...
...proclaimed itself to the world. This psychedelic eye chart is set in 2019, the same year as Blade Runner, and paints its Neo-Tokyo with even denser splashes of noir on neon. The mix of outlaw attitude and brain-breaking speculation may convince you that the Wachowskis were channeling Akira when they wrote The Matrix. The special-edition DVD restores the original film in all its gaudio-visual splendor...
...world's greatest movie. Maybe so, maybe not. But it was (and remains) the movies' most fabulous blend of style and substance, full of beguiling camera and editing tricks as Welles traces the rise and fall of a man whose lust for power betrays his best instincts. Ikiru 1952; Akira Kurosawa In his final days, a government functionary discovers the joy of living. Kurosawa, justly celebrated for his muscular action spectacles, achieves a delicate and totally unsentimental irony in this small, glowing gem of a movie. Persona 1966; Ingmar Bergman A famous actress falls silent, unable to speak...
IKIRU 1952; AKIRA KUROSAWA...