Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mingling and yearning, touching and tonguing the mysteries of their separate tunnels of life, they slowly begin, as the train picks up speed, to give of themselves, and speak of their lives. "Do you go to school," the fair young boy asks the old man with a stubble beard and the bleary eyes. "I go to Harvard." The bleary eyes close and open again. "You go to HARVARD, says the girl with boots from across the aisle. "I go to RADCLIFFE!" "You go to Radcliffe," says the girl next to us. "I go to Pembroke." The train chugs its mystery...
...BEARD. Japan's Akira Kurosawa is one of the world's greatest film makers, and in this deceptively simple story about the spiritual growth of a young doctor he has made one of his greatest films. Kurosawa's techniques are impeccable, and his actors-especially the justly famed Toshiro Mifune-are among the most accomplished ever to appear on screen...
...BEARD. Japan's Akira Kurosawa is one of the world's greatest film makers, and in this deceptively simple story about the spiritual growth of a young doctor, he has made one of his greatest films. Kurosawa's canvas is the whole range of human experience. His techniques are impeccable, and his actors-especially the justly famed Toshiro Mifune-are among the most accomplished ever to appear on screen...
Stylistically, Kurosawa is without peer. Of Red Beard he said: "I wanted to make something so magnificent that people would just have to see it." Kurosawa's artistry is in the lapidary care that he gives to every aspect of his films. He holds scenes, without cutting, for minutes on end, forcing the eye to choose its own emphasis. His use of telephoto lenses to foreshorten perspective is so expert that it is often unnoticeable...
Since Red Beard, Kurosawa has occupied himself by preparing his first American film, a dramatization of the events leading up to Pearl Harbor called Tora! Tora! Tora! Twentieth Century-Fox gave him absolute freedom, and Kurosawa revised the script 27 separate times before he felt that he was ready to proceed. Then late last month after only nine days of shooting, the director, 58, was overcome with exhaustion and forced to withdraw from the film. Said Kurosawa's wife, "My husband is no longer young." Unable to replace the irreplaceable, Fox has announced that it will halt production...